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No Tricks, All Treats: 18 Spooktacular Halloween Fundraising Ideas

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As Halloween-inspired decorations begin popping up around your community, a spooky scavenger hunt will get your donors on their feet and in the Halloween spirit. Ghost story contest. After running the contest, host a reading around a campfire and listen to the scariest ghost stories in an appropriately spooky setting.

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9 Engaging, Event-Free Fundraisers for Teams on a Budget

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Examples include text-to-give campaigns, merchandise fundraisers, and virtual contests. Just because these fundraisers don’t have traditional in-person gatherings doesn’t mean you can’t create a sense of community with synchronous virtual meetings. There are countless ways to implement contests into your fundraising strategy.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

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Spring fundraisers are a great way to bring your community together while gaining support for your cause. You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Offer tickets for your community to come watch the event and bring in a judging panel to determine the prize winners.

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

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Host a Community Clean-Up. Movies for Impact. Summer blockbuster season could offer the opportunity to partner with a local movie theater to screen a relevant film with proceeds going to your cause (some movie theaters are even nonprofits themselves ). The summer is also a time for superhero movie franchises to take over.

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11 Fundraising Tips to Make Scary $ on Halloween

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These are great communities to run peer-to-peer fundraising opportunities for causes that support the local area. Halloween Costume Contest. Pumpkin Carving Contest. This is another great contest idea that can get people engaged and excited about your cause. Spooky Donation Match: Candy & A Cause.

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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

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Purim is a Jewish holiday that brings a community together — and gives everyone an excuse to dress up on a day that isn’t Halloween. Host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have “tip jars” for people to show their support for their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Drive-in or outdoor Movie Night.

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How to Pick the Right Fundraiser for Your New Nonprofit

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Evaluate Different Kinds of Fundraisers If you start looking around, you’ll see lots of different fundraisers happening in your community. For example, if your community is already into cornhole, then a Cornhole Tournament might make sense. After judges award prizes for the best pies, you can have a pie-eating contest.