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JENNINGS of Michigan provides these ideas as a service
to our customers, if you would like further information on fundraising,
please contact us.
1.
The
Playground
dance
What about an outdoor
dance on the site of the future playground? That's sure to attract a
lot of attention for the cause! If you design a quick pledge sheet with
name and amount pledged per hour, dancers can use it to raise money from
their friends and co-workers.
Fundraising
Potential: $1,000
2.
Cocktail
and
Appetizer
Party
Have someone from the
Playground Committee say a few words to the guests about the playground
project and why it is important. Have sign-up lists for guests to
volunteer with planning, fundraising or construction.
Fundraising
Potential: $200
3.
Plant and Garden Sale
How about a contest for
the best tomatoes? What about a contest for the most unusual weed from
your backyard? Get prizes donated from your local nursery for the
winners and charge contestants $5 to enter.
Fundraising
Potential: $200
4.
Pizza Week
Make a deal with a
pizza parlor to print coupons with playground information on them.
Volunteer to pass them out all over the community. When people come
with the coupon, the pizza parlor donates a percentage of the sale to
the playground.
Fundraising
Potential: $500
5.
Selling T-Shirts
Have a prize for the
person who creates the best T-Shirt design. Include in the contest a
"Name the Playground" competition and put the winning choice on the
shirts as well. Consider whether or not a T-Shirt is the best item for
your particular sale. Maybe you want to sell baseball caps, boxer
shorts, coffee mugs, or bandannas instead.
Fundraising
Potential: $600
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6.
Buy a Playground Campaign
Sell engraved bricks
for a sidewalk, sell wooden planks on a fence or the picnic tables, sell
flower boxes on site, the trash receptacles, anything that appears in
the playground space.
Fundraising
Potential: $5,000
7.
General Raffle
Ask Local businesses,
merchants, or individuals to donate items to be raffled. Items such as
a free haircut, a weekend stay at a local hotel, dinner gift
certificates, and a new bike have worked well in the past.
Fundraising
Potential: $2,000
8.
Pasta Dinner
Serve the meal in a
school cafeteria, sell tickets beforehand. You'll know how many people
are planning to attend and you will have raised money even if they
forget to come! You can also have volunteer sign-up sheets at the
event.
Fundraising
Potential: $500
9.
School Fair or Carnival
Use the school parking
lot and hold a small fair for children and adults, don't forget to sell
home-made goods. Look in the phone book for venders who might want to
donate small rides. Also contact local churches, chambers of commerce
and whoever else might have some games that have been used before for
another event.
Fundraising
Potential: $1,500
10.
Benefit Concert
Contact a local music
club or concert hall, and ask them about incorporating an existing show
into the Playground Benefit. You can always do your own benefit concert
at the local high school with students performing!
Fundraising
Potential: $3,500
11.
Color your playground
Jennings will provide your school with a
black and white line drawing of
the play structure you have chosen.
Each child then will be asked to get a sponsor for $10. (all children
should participate) Children will color the structure as they choose.
Have a local business person choose the winner of the contest
(using criteria you determine) and award a prize from the sponsorship
money. The balance of the sponsorship money can be put toward the
purchase of your playground.
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