Teams of people camp out around a track in the community and members take turns walking around the track while food, games and entertainment are provided. All kinds of people from all different backgrounds take part in Relay for Life fundraising. Most teams consist of people, but can be any size. So how do they do it? There are tons of options for Relay for Life fundraising.
Bark for Life events recognize how much our furry friends help us out during tough times. They can be organized as a pre- or post-Relay fundraiser or as a team fundraiser for the entire community.
At the event, participants can donate to play doggie games, compete in dog dress-up contests, and see demonstrations by special dog guests like therapy, police and rescue dogs.
Weekends are usually the most successful garage sale days. Schedule a Saturday bean bag tournament in a public park or a store parking lot. Pre-register teams and create a single or double-elimination bracket. Charge an entry fee and have a local store donate a prize for the winning team. Buy rose bushes from a local nursery. You can sell the rose bushes at the Relay event or before. Sell purple bows for a small donation to cover the community with bows. This is a great way to raise awareness of the upcoming Relay event as well as raise funds.
Teams hold a four person golf scramble in the winter where each team member gets one golf club to share and play 18 holes with one club. Ask a local gas station to support your team by letting you pump gas at self-serve pumps. Ask for free-will donations in exchange. If you work in an office with plenty of busy moms, this fundraiser is perfect for you. You can double the dinner you cook at home the night before and take half of it into work the next day to auction off via email.
Ask your company to donate the lunch to the effort and have all employees bring bake and craft sale items to the cause. Everyone loves breakfast for dinner! How about all you can eat hotcakes? Get well-known people in your community to volunteer themselves to kiss a pig in public in exchange for donations toward Relay for Life.
Make it a competition with multiple people involved. Whoever gets the most donations has to kiss the pig! Contact local bars and see if you can do a fundraising crawl for Relay for Life. Talk with local grocers to see if they will donate a turkey to be won by a lucky customer around Thanksgiving. The cashiers can ask for a dollar donation toward Relay for Life in order for the customers to be entered in the turkey raffle.
Host an event where all women attending can wear a little black dress and create and sell tickets to the event. Set up a special voicemail at work with weekly messages sharing auction items.
Update the recorded message daily, announcing the highest bids to date. Ask co-workers to donate items or services to be auctioned. Everyone loves casual Friday, so offer your co-workers the chance to pay to wear jeans on Monday. Have a few people in your office bake cupcakes, and have others donate icing, sprinkles, candies and other toppings. Co-workers can pay to create their own cupcake. This can be done at any business with a drive-up bank, fast-food, pharmacy.
Set up with towels, squeegees, buckets, access to water, and window-washing soap. If your company allows this, decorate your waiting room or sitting area with Relay themed colors and posters, and signs saying your company will match any donations made by customers. Students can sell individual links to make a paper chain that can be hung in the classroom.
Work with a local grocery store, Walmart, shopping center, or mall to get permission to set up a photo opportunity for pictures with Santa, the Easter Bunny or a Halloween character. Each time a participant walks a lap, they can take another bead from your table and add it to their necklace for free. White beads mark a mile. These necklaces become a sort of competition and souvenir for participants. Team members collect prizes and donate their own goods or services as prizes. Before filling each balloon, put a note inside with the name of the prize.
Then sell chances to pop a balloon! If you get a strike, your name is entered into a drawing two times for a prize. A spare equals one entry into the prize pool. Have each team bring a cake to the opening ceremonies. Use these activities as on-site fundraisers. Just make sure to check that the operator is properly licensed and insured, and that your facility will allow it.
Make yourself a resource for people who forgot something for their campsite. Have supplies like toothbrushes, toothpaste, extra socks, toilet paper, flashlights, bug spray, sunscreen and baby wipes for a donation. Sell glow sticks, necklaces, glow in the dark and light-up toys, reflective clothing and anything else you can find that glows in the dark.
Once the sun sets, participants will be excited about joining the glow party. SGet a local grocery store to donate Popsicles or other frozen treats and sell them at Relay for a suggested donation.
Salons conduct an ongoing Tip-A-Thon from mid-March up until the Relay, asking their clients to make donations. Work with a local radio station to create an hour or more in which listeners pay for requests, with the money earned going toward Relay. Charge a participation fee and explain that all the proceeds will go toward Relay for Life. Challenge everyone you know to fill empty prescription bottles with change. It might seem old-fashioned, but sometimes the most influential fundraisers are the simple ones.
Write letters to friends and family requesting donations. Pick a catalog or home party fundraiser that fits your team and community and sell their products, putting your profits toward your Relay for Life team. To find more fundraising ideas or to share your fundraiser ideas with other teams, visit Relay Nation. With all these options for great fundraisers, it can be difficult to narrow down which fundraiser will be best for your team. Rada Mfg.
Last year alone, Rada helped over 18, fundraising groups raise money for their causes. Selling products from a catalog makes the fundraising process simple and organized, but selling the right product for your audience is crucial to your success. Rada offers cutlery, utensils, gift sets, stoneware, cookbooks and delicious food Quick Mixes.
Proceeds from the thousands of Relay for Life events help further cancer research and other ACS-sponsored programs. The relay is also a great fundraiser for those who cannot walk or run several miles. Relay for Life only requires that one person from each team be on the track at all times. This allows team members to take breaks. However, team members should be able to walk for 30 minutes at a time. People who rely on wheelchairs may also "walk" laps in most events.
In short, Relay for Life is a very inclusive fundraiser that seeks both financial and community support. Luminarias are also a signature addition to Relay for Life events. Special bags that contain a white candle line the track, creating a lighted pathway for walkers.
You can honor a loved one who has died of cancer by sponsoring a luminary at these events. All events have a luminary ceremony, where the candles are lit and those who lost their battle to cancer are memorialized.
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