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Other Ways to Fundraise
Make Food Bank fundraising fun!
- Sell tickets for a “Baked Potato Bar” for lunch – have donors bring baked potatoes, cheese, toppings
- Have a “Throwdown” ( A Food Network Bobby Flay style competition). Have a cupcake, brownie, or salsa Throw-down, then sell the product. Make the product yourself or ask local restaurants or bakeries to participate.
- Sell tickets for a “Dessert Tasting”; have donors bring baked goods.
Hold a raffle. See if anyone is willing to donate items for a raffle. Possible ideas include: homemade pie, homemade cookies, gift certificate to a restaurant/business, or a gift basket with a theme i.e. Baker’s Basket, Holiday Basket, etc.
- Hold a 50/50 raffle – half of $$$ collected goes to winner, half to the Food Bank.
- Hold a pee-wee American Idol contest and sell tickets!
- Play an instrument or sing for co-workers! Ask for a donation if you don’t sing!
- Hold a white elephant or yard sale, at home or at work!
- Ask co-workers to bring in books, CD’s, DVD’s they no longer want and have a sale.
- Cook breakfast for co-workers or hold a BBQ.
- Pass the hat – an empty grocery bag – at work or at a party.
Explain to your donors that:
- Each $1 donated enables the Food Bank to distribute many more dollars worth of nutritious food—equivalent to three meals.
- 33% of people receiving emergency food are children and more than 31% are over 50 years old.
- A full 95 cents of each dollar feeds the hungry; only 5 cents goes toward Food Bank overhead (terrific ratio!).