Fundraising Ideas for Elementary and Secondary Schools:
The sky is the limit when it comes to organizing fundraisers.
You can do extra chores at home to raise money or hold a penny drive in your class; you could even help to organize a school-wide Walk for Water!
The result is the same. You are giving of yourselves to help bring the very basic needs of like to those less privileged than yourselves!
Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing:
- Organize a Walk for Water where students are sponsored for their participation
- Hold a read-a-thon or math-a-thon where students are sponsored for the number of books read or math sheets completed.
- Suggest that students dress in blue on World Water Day (March 22nd) and donate $1 for the privilege.
- Hold a penny-drive
- Run a week-long sponsored Drink-Water-A-Thon: the only beverage that students drink that week is water. Students may wish to donate money saved from not buying juice and soft drinks to WaterCan.
- Have a sponsored wash- walk- or swim-a-thon.
- Hold a water bucket relay/jerry-can competition and charge one or two dollars for teams to enter.
- Hold a dance or coffee house with a water theme and donate the proceeds to WaterCan
- Hold a bake sale (fish-shaped cookies anyone?).
- Have an afternoon volleyball tournament where students pay $5-$10 per team to participate. Give certificates for most creative cheer or costume, etc.
