FUNdraising
Find tips that will assist you in your fundraising efforts.
Register to Fundraise
Sign up to be a fundraiser on DonorDrive and start raising money For The Kids! You can join as an individual, a team, or create a new team.
Social Media Campaigns
Use our pre-made templates to fundraise through social media!
Letter Writing Campaign
Letter writing with the letter template provided by DM at GVSU is one of the easiest ways to raise money on behalf of the kids.
D'Mails
Sending emails is a quick and simple way for everyone involved in Dance Marathon at GVSU to fundraise. The more emails sent out the better!
Tips on Putting Together An Inspiring Email:
- Include your personal story on how you got involved with Dance Marathon, what it means to you, and why YOU stand for the kids.
- Edit the email template to make it more personal and clear based on who you are sending it to (friends, family, friends of parents, etc.)
- Changing and personalizing the picture on the site
- Include your story on your fundraising page to share with potential donors
- Adding a fundraising goal
- If emails go unanswered follow up with phone calls or reminder emails!
- For those potential donors who are not as familiar with emails check out our Letter Writing Template.
50 Ways to Fundraise
- Shave your head/dye your hair when you raise a certain amount of money
- Post a funny picture on Facebook or instagram for each donation received
- Have stuff you don’t want anymore? Sell it on a website!
- Babysit and have a % of your earnings go to your fundraising account
- Have a yard or garage sale
- Mow lawns
- Have a bake sale
- Throw a party and charge people to get in or participate
- Host a dinner
- Bring old clothes to Plato’s closet
- Text everyone you know!
- Send emails and follow through with phone calls
- Give rides to class for a donation
- Be the taxi for the night and ask friends for donations when you drop them off or pick them up
- Host a car wash
- Be the delivery man/woman for the night and bring friends food or coffee while studying
- Ask 20 family and friends to donate $10 to sponsor you for every hour of the Marathon (That’s $200!)
- Put a bucket outside your work for spare change donations (with permission of course!)
- Regularly post your fundraising page on social media
- Have your parents post your fundraising page on their Facebook pages
- Contact old teachers/professors
- Do your friends’ laundry
- Keep a change jar!
- Utilize the letter template and send handwritten letters!
- Bake cookies/brownies for donations
- Artistic? make personalized items and sell for a donation
- Wear/do something crazy in public when you reach a certain monetary goal
- Do housework/errands for a donation
- Walk dogs or dog-sit
- Sell back your old textbooks
- Ask for donations on behalf of the holidays and your Birthday!
- Ask companies if they will match how much you fundraise within a certain period of time
- Tweet at celebrities
- Buy a dozen donuts and sell each donut for $1; do the same with a box of pizza!
- Ask friends/family to send a mass email on your behalf
- Share your story and let people know why you are passionate
- Ask for "dare donations" and allow your friends to dare you to do something if they donate a certain amount
- Talented? Write a song, perform a rap, write a poem, or perform a dance move for every donor who donates to your page and post it on social media
- Ask professors if you are able to can in class
- Go canning! (football weekends and other shops, malls, and areas you are able to get permission from)
- Set a fundraising goal and if it is reached set out a challenge that you will do (ex: run a marathon, serenade President Thrasher, be creative!)
- Participate in all DM at GVSU fundraising campaigns!
- Save $1 each day leading up to the marathon
- Go Holiday (or any other time) Caroling for donations
- Make a deal with your parents for every 'A' you receive on a test, quiz, paper, etc. they will donate a certain amount to your account
- Hold some sort of challenge (corn hole, baking, etc.) with a fee to participate and the winner receives the money entered to win into their fundraising account
- Challenge Facebook/Instagram/Twitter friends to donate to your page through creative, original posts
- Run or bike a marathon for donations!
- Shovel snow for a neighbor in return for a donation
- Write a letter to family and friends describing what being FTK means to you! Share your passion!