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The creative minds at FundingFactory have been researching for the past few weeks to provide you with five new fundraising ideas to cancel out the cliche candy bars and magazine subscriptions. While those can be effective, there are other options that may better suit your organization.

Today, we’ll introduce you to The Top 5 Types of Fundraising in a video,“The Funding Five.”

#1 Collecting For Cash
Gather recyclable or “upcyclable” items and send them to a reputable collector. For example, Terracycle, takes candy wrappers, old keyboards, mice, all of which will then be used to make new products. Here at FundingFactory, our program gives you cash for your used printer cartridges, cell phones, and other small electronics that can be remanufactured and reused in order to keep them out of landfills.

#2 Auctions

They can be silent like a Chinese auction, or live like a photography auction. You can even raffle off tickets for the best parking spot at school. One of our facebook fans, Paula G., hosts an Annual Art Auction at her school. Each class creates a unique piece of art that gets sold to the highest bidder. This fundraiser can erupt into a massive bidding war, as many parents vie to own their child’s artwork.

#3 Competitions

Many schools enjoy channeling competitive energy into fundraising contests between classrooms, grades, or rival schools. The class that collects the most printer cartridges gets or a week of casual dress passes. How about having the student groups get creative by designing shirts surrounding a chosen theme. The most shirts get a pizza party. By providing some sort of special incentive, you will see a noticeable difference in people and their willingness to get involved.

#4 Event

Hold a dinner where students serve the food for their parents and donors, or host a movie day like Ann R. She mentioned on our facebook page that her school transforms into a theater for the students, who pay to watch brand new films, sometimes before they have even had a chance to see them in the theater! Candy and popcorn are also sold for some extra profit. These kinds of events can be fun and very beneficial to your budget with enough participation.

#5 Loyalty Programs

Companies like Box Tops for Education and Labels for Education donate money to organizations when they receive proof of purchase from their products. Escrip also offers such a program, where parents can register their credit and debit cards to rack up points for their school just by shopping as they always have.

There you have it! Five new fundraising ideas at your school organization We hope that “The Funding 5″ inspired you to toss around some new creative fundraising ideas of your own!

Become a FundingFactory participant today and register for our free recycling fundraiser. Collected used laser cartridges, cell phones, and small electronics for points for cash!

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