MADD Colorado
444 Lincoln St.
Denver, CO 80203
303-425-5902
www.madd.org/co
www.walklikemadd.org/denver
[email protected]
Workplace Fundraising Ideas
Denim Days
Set up a Denim Day at work! Ask your supervisors, team members, and other department representatives to collect a $5 fee from coworkers who want to wear jeans or
casual clothes on the designated day. Your Walk Like MADD coordinator can help
you by providing stickers for employees who have paid to wear jeans. Be sure to promote it and place signs and posters up in your organization to explain what you are
doing and who it will benefit – your Walk Like MADD Team!
How much can I raise?
“Serve your Sweet Tooth” Days
Everyone loves homemade desserts and everyone
likes to make them! Have a contest to judge the best
chocolate chip cookie, have your CEO be the judge!
Then sell all the entries to benefit your
walk team!
How much can I raise?
If you had a bake sale once a month for
a year you could raise about $1,000!
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Auction off an office for a year for those people in
cubicles
Sell your office services, such as cubicle cleaning, filing, helping out with a major mailing, etc.
Have your team be babysitters for a month and
advertise through your company’s email.
Car washes
Hold a silent auction. Encourage co-workers to
bring in items they want to be rid of and auction
those items off.
Use a Goal Board or thermometer to show the
company’s current fundraising progress
Concession stands at games and festivals
Mini-golf tournaments
Rummage sales/garage sales
Contests
Holiday gift wrap service
Sell single roses/carnations, etc.
Sell company T-shirts or sweatshirts
Donation jars in restaurants/banks
Pot luck lunches at work
Raffle off a reserved parking spot
If you held a denim day once a month for a year
and 100 employees participated you would raise
$6,000!
“Water Cooler” Days
Have employees gather around the water
cooler to take a break & buy
bagels, pizza or popcorn on certain days
of the week. Or have a team member
take up collections for coffee
and then do a “coffee run”.
You can charge a little extra
since you are bringing it to
them.
You can even do lunch runs and
charge $1 to $5 for your services.
Additional Tips
Brainstorm with your team. Be creative
and think of things that can involve the
entire company.
Advertise your participation as much as
possible and JUST ASK PEOPLE! Too
often people just don’t know you are having a team or to whom they can donate.
A poster on a bulletin board with lots of
other posters may not even be noticed,
make sure your event information stands
out and is different from all the “others”.
The more excitement you can create the
more people will want to be a part of it! If
you’re having fun then your co-workers
will too!