Comments on: 3 Fundraising Ideas That Don’t Feel Like Fundraisers

By: ian

ian — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:49:05 +0000

Per the Ebay idea. Storage units have auctions about once a month and for 100-300 dollar average you can pick up an abandoned unit and resell the items. it takes a day or two to bid on the items and transport them to the church and then another day to clean everything up, figure out the value online, take pictures and list the items. If you can get students to help, then you can take the “investment money” out of the sales and put it back into your pocket and then split the proceeds amongst the students that helped or donate the money to a needy student for the event. if you are really savvy and can find great deals, the church could actually pay for all the events and the youth ministers salary by being proactive in this endeavor.

By: Bobby Crick

Bobby Crick — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:00:12 +0000

Youth Service Projects have been a great fundraiser for us. We set up a monthly youth work day, typically the 3rd Saturday, from 9am to noon. We have an ongoing sign-up sheet intended for people who can’t physically do the work or don’t have the time. The object is to help people who really need the help. What’s so great about this fundraiser is that it is not actually a fundraiser, yet most of the adults will write us a check or give us cash even though we tell them that we are not doing it for the money. Which is true. It’s a win, win opportunity. Youth learn to love others without expecting pay, people get ministered to, and God blesses the Youth Fund with extra scholarship money. LOL, I just realized that I just ruined the idea for you all. If you do this as a fundraiser, it defeats the purpose of doing it. Sorry, my bad. So do it as a ministry project while you do fundraisers. Blessings!

By: john

john — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:04:28 +0000

“the 100 club”- this january, we’re making a push for 100 people to donate at least 100 dollars each over the course of the year for student ministry. Those folks will recieve a monthly newsletter, thank-you cards, and be invited to a year-end celebration.

By: KJ

KJ — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:12:56 +0000

I don’t know the specifics, just that he decided focusing on two categories he is already familiar with seemed like best route. When he sees a sale, he will by as many of those items as he is allowed to, store them in his garage and place adds on eBay.

By: Matthew McNutt

Matthew McNutt — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:07:56 +0000

We do a ‘Parent’s Night Out’ fundraiser. We get the teens to babysit in the church’s children ministry facilities, block out a three hour time period on a Friday night and tell parents they can drop off their kids for babysitting and just make a donation if they want to. It’s great because it becomes a service to parents who can’t afford babysitters normally since the donations are anonymous and they can give just a few bucks. And there’s always some families that are more well off and donate significantly more than they would to a babysitter, so we typically end up raising around $1000 (and we’re typically watching about 80 kids).

it’s three hours of madness, but a great low prep, big pay off fund raiser for us.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:58:38 +0000

We do a tree lot every year. We get the trees on the day after Thanksgiving and sell for about two weeks. This is the only fundraiser we do and it allows the students to earn money for their youth account. Now that I think about it, this fundraiser probably works because we live in Florida….

By: kolby

kolby — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:37:39 +0000

hey Kurt,

I love the ebay idea. What exactly did he sell? I could almost have a adult do this as apart of his/her ministry.

By: Deneice

Deneice — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:30:11 +0000

When I was Youth Director at what is now, oddly enough, Saddleback Rancho Capistrano, we did the “Buck a Roo Club” idea I got from Les Christie. We promised other than 30 Hour Famine we would ask for no other $$. Members pledged $2 a week or $104 a year. It paid for transportation & scholarships!

By: Brian Seidel

Brian Seidel — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:06:00 +0000

I wrote about the best fundraiser I have ever done on my blog: http://wp.me/p1wwrA-2Q