Fundraising Ideas

GREAT WAYS TO RAISE DONATIONS

"Blessed are those who are generous, because they feed the poor." Proverbs 22:9

Following is a list of ideas to help fundraise for SPAH that have a positive impact on students, families, business, and our community. This is by no means a complete list, feel free to come up with your own creative idea.


Support Academics

  • Read-a-thon

  • Science Fair

  • Spelling bee

  • Workshops or classes

Ideas to do as a Family

  • Keep the Change - Pay for everything you can in cash for the next week, and keep the change in a jar. It adds up quickly!

  • Sponsorship Pledges - Ask friends, family, classmates, & coworkers to sponsor the meals that you will pack during the event. (Click here to download a pledge form.)

  • Potatoes for Dinner - Serve your family only potatoes for dinner one night and gain a better understanding of what a meal is like for many hungry families around the world. Put the money you saved on that meal toward your donation.

  • Skip the Soda - When you eat out, drink water instead of soda. Put the savings in your donation jar.

  • Coin tubes - You can request SPAH coin tubes to collect your coins in. To request a tube call: 608-658-4700 or email: jramthun@gmail.com

  • Bake Sale - One young girl invested $75 in baking supplies & raised $1,000 from selling cookies & brownies

  • Purchase a SPAH T-shirt - Buy a T-shirt (we have children, adults, & Women style shirts) With the purchase of each shirt you sponsor 50 meals. This is a great way to promote SPAH & feed starving children! You can buy a shirt at the Pack Event or year round at 6:8!!

Support the Arts

  • Art show

  • Concerts

  • Dances

  • Plays or musicals

  • Talent Show

  • Singing telegrams

  • Rent-a-band or rent-a-choir

  • Hymn-a-thon

Support Physical Activity

  • Walk-a-thon

  • Bike-a-thon

  • Jump-rope-a-thon

  • 5K run/walk or other fun run

  • Golf, Tennis, Horseshoes, bean bag toss, or other sports tournament

  • Bowling

  • Sports camps or clinics

Ideas to do as a Business or Organization

  • Volunteer Sponsorship - Could offer a program that would pay an hourly wage for each hour your employees volunteer. Great way to support community & feed starving children!

  • Matching Funds - Inform your employees that you will match their donations to Sauk Prairie Against Hunger

  • Sponsorship Pledges - Ask friends, family, classmates, & coworkers to sponsor the meals that you will pack during the event. (Click here to download a pledge form.)

  • Coin tubes - You can request SPAH coin tubes to collect your coins in. To request a tube call: 608-658-4700 or email: jramthun@gmail.com

  • Hang up Donation Tags - Could promote to your customers & employees to make a donation and have them sign their name to a SPAH certificate to display in a prominent place in your business. To request donation tags call: 608-658-4700 or email: jramthun@gmail.com

  • SPAH Donation Cans - Ask your business, church, class, club, or any organization you're involved in to put out a donation can in a prominent place to promote the pack event & collect donations. To request a donation can call: 608-658-4700 or email: jramthun@gmail.com

  • Team Pack - Bring a full or partial team (of staff or members) to the pack event and pack meals together. 2 hr pack, 15-20 people, $1,000 suggested donation to sponsor all the meals your team will pack. To learn more & get a form to register your team click here.


More Activities

  • Garage Sale

  • Live auction or silent auction

  • Carnival

  • Giant Game of musical chairs

  • Rent-a-handyman

  • Guessing games

  • Car wash

  • Game night

  • Craft Show

  • Magic Show

  • Haunted house

  • Penny war

  • Recycling drive

  • Bingo night

  • Karaoke Competition

  • Chess, Checkers, or other tournament

  • Treasure hunt or scavenger hunt

Items to Sell other than food

  • Candles

  • Greeting cards

  • Gift wrap, boxes and bags

  • Holiday wreaths

  • Christmas trees

  • Mistletoe

  • Gift Certificates

  • Cookbooks

  • Balloons

  • Decorations

  • Books

  • Calendars

  • Buttons and pins

  • Air Fresheners

  • Customized Stickers

  • Crafts

  • First aid kits

  • Emergency kits for car

  • Plants or flowers

  • Temporary tattoos

  • Stuffed animals

  • Coffee cups and mugs

  • Pet treats, toys, & accessories

  • Special parking space

  • Scarves & caps

  • Bumper Sticker

  • Jewelry

  • Artwork

  • Stationary

  • Stadium pillows

  • Frisbees

  • Picnic baskets