This wiki features great ideas your community can use to raise funds and friends for your new playspace! Use this to jumpstart your fundraising, but don’t stop here! You know your community and what will work best.
This list is by no means exhaustive, so we invite you to add to it! Use it with your brainstorming team, and add lots of your own ideas!
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We have tried to give you an idea of some of the basics involved, but these really will vary widely and will depend on you, your committee and your community. The information in each description that follows, includes rough guides to the following:
Average amount of money you can raise:
$$ = Less than $500
$$$= Between $500-$2,000
$$$$= More than $2,000
Average amount of publicity or awareness an activity will generate
An approximate number of volunteers required to organize or manage each activity
An ideal time to conduct each fundraiser, based on the KaBOOM! Road Map:
Every idea has a letter associated with it. What do the letters mean?
B=Beginning (Miles 1 and 2)
M= Middle (Miles 3 and 4)
E=End (Miles 5 and 6)
O=Ongoing, meaning this one’s easy and effective to do several times!
Be creative! Get crazy! And don’t forget to play! 
The teenagers at our church had a fundraiser to help raise funds to purchase new equipment and toys for the younger children to play on by having a "who do you think will kiss the pig - Pastor or his wife." They had 2 containers, 1 with each of their's names written on them. At the beginning and ending of every service the teens would shout and cheer for our pastor and his wife getting people to give them money in the containers. The deal was, the person with the most money was going to kiss this pig. This went on for a month and the teens raised a lot of money for our christian school. At the end of the whole thing our pastor wife ended up being the loser, then someone came and gave money to make it even so they both had to kiss the pig. It was a fun and exciting event for everyone, and like I said we raised alot of money for the school.
Thanks, Beverly! That sounds like a lot of fun. I remember "pig kissing" fundraisers from when I grew up. I hope you got pictures. Your pastor is a good sport.
As an twist, perhaps the pastor and/or his wife should be allowed to buy themselves out of kissing the pig. That would possibly raise more money, but I wonder if it would take away the fun of watching someone... you know... kiss a pig.
Our school raised money by providing a FREE online shopping fundraising website to our families and friends. No cost to registrar and we receive our own custom website. We made 1500.00 in two months.
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We also did a recycle program thru Waste Free America Cans for Cause$program . They provided bags,bins and we made buck$
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We used Green Students Fundraising http://www.greenstudentsfundraising.com for our elementary school fundraising. What's great about them is they only offer green products so not only did we raise money for our school, our green fundraiser helped the planet too.
We used a fund raiser with gourmet coffee. This wasn't your off the shelf stuff. It was good and well accepted. Something different. Best of all the supporters could re order off the company website and you still get the same profit from each order they place. Its ongoing. No inventory, fee or costs. They stock and ship. We did very well with this one. Email me if you want more info.