Fund-raising Ideas

At the Office:
- Donation jar on your desk (Extra change in my pocket jar).
- Post your pledge sheet in common areas or on your office door.  (List your Fund-raising GOAL and personal pledge first.)
- Hang TX TOUGH Tour posters around the office and include your contact information so people    interested know how to contact you.
- Find out if your company has a charitable funds matching program.
- Ask if you can solicit the vendors or suppliers with whom the company does business.
- Bake some goodies like cookies or homemade bread for peers in your office to purchase as contribution to your fund-raising effort.
- Ask your boss to allow you to raffle off a good parking spot, vacation day or other some other “perk” that would get people's attention.


On you own time:
- Let friends, family and member groups your associated with know what you're doing and ask their support.
- Birthday Invitations - Let everyone know what you're doing and ask that they make a donations instead of giving you gifts. 
- Host a Karaoke Night!  Invite a group of your friends to get together and create a $50 or $100 pool. Then let them watch you sing away and earn those dollars for your campaign.
- Ask friends and/or family members to share contacts. Ask them to forward your donation page link to people they know who might willing to support your fund-raising efforts.
- Organize and host a neighborhood garage sale.  Make sure participants and customer know all the proceeds go to sponsor your fund-raising efforts for Children's Medical Center (Ask neighbors, friends and family to donate items that can be sold).
- Rent a Yourself for a Day: Offer yourself for rent for a day to do misceallanous work around someones home or office.  You can offer yourself and your team’s services for babysitting, cleaning, house sitting, lawn care, car washing and moving.
- Change your answering machine message so it mentions your participation in the TX TOUGH Bike Stage .


As a Team:
- Run a concession stand at the BallPark in Arlington during a Texas Rangers baseball game!  The  Rangers organization will let your team manage a concession stand during a Rangers Home game and keep a percentage of the money sold that day as donation to your team's fund-raising campaign.  
- Solicit corporate sponsorship for your team. Have your team members help create and organize corporate targets, including their respective companies, for team sponsorship dollars.  They can help purchase custom cycling jerseys for the team as well as contribute to fund-raising campaign. (Ex: $3K for placing corporate logo on the sleeve or jersey pockets; $6k for placement on the front and/or back)
- Team silent auction event.  Ask each team member to find five items in specific categories for a silent auction.  Invite neighbors, friends, co-workers, clubs, etc. to attend and support your team's fund-raising campaign.
- Host a poker night.  Get a big ticket item as the grand prize(s) for winners.