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FUNdraising Event Ideas
 
Executive Auction
  • Get your executive staff to donate one hour to your campaign.
  • Auction off each executive to the highest bidding employee with proceeds to benefit your United Way Campaign.
  • The executive then must take over the employee's job for the appointed hour.
Lunch Box Auction
  • Employees supply lunches to be auctioned.
  • Encourage CEO and management participation.
  • Display lunches.
  • Give prizes for the most creative, nutritional, elegant, and humorous lunch.
  • Tie in a speaker from a United Way-funded agency that operates a food pantry
  CEO Lunch
  • Have your CEO and other management serve and bus tables at a luncheon. Sell tickets! Casual Days Sell casual day badges allowing employees to dress casually on certain days.
  • Employees purchase badges for $5 each.
  • Designate certain casual days as "crazy days" and encourage your employees to show their wild side, i.e., Stupid Hat Day, Outrageous Socks Day, Sports Team Day, or Dress Up Day.
  • Baby/Pet Picture Match Game Invite employees to try their luck matching baby and/or pet pictures of management.
  • Award the entry with the most right answers a paid holiday off or some other fun incentive.Charge employees $5 per ballot.
  • CEO Car Wash Employees donate $5 to have their car washed at high noon by their "boss." Charge extra for Polaroid photos.
  • Balloon-o-gram Sell balloons to employees to give to their co workers.
    Employees can purchase the balloon, include a brief note, and have it sent to their colleague.
    Employees get affirmation and your office gets decorated with colorful United Way balloons.
  • Raffles Vacation days, gift certificates, parking spaces, clothing/mugs with your company logo, etc.  The sky is the limit!
Beach Blanket Bingo  
  • Decorate a conference room with beach items: beach balls, blow up rafts, fake palm trees, etc.
  • Establish a dress code, no office attire allowed.
  • Serve hot dogs, fruit, sandwiches and drinks.
  • Award best outfit, play bingo!
  Company Comedy
  • Have employees bring in their favorite jokes.
  • Combine all the jokes into one volume.
  • Sell the books at a comedy-themed lunch hour.
  Don't Know Much About History
  • Employees come to work dressed in clothing from their favorite eras.
  • Employees decorate offices/cubicles according to the era selected.
  Eat This!
  • Purchase whipped pies and balloons at your local store.
  • Fill balloons with water.
  • For a fee, employees throw pies and balloons at upper management.
  • Arrange function to be held during peak business hours.
  (Insert Company Name) Funniest Home Videos
  • Encourage employees to bring in their funniest videos, or to create new ones.
  • Allot a time for showing videos.
  • Establish a small entry fee.
  • Funniest video wins grand prize of a donated DVD player.
  Holiday Fun
  • For holiday falling closest to your campaign, employees decorate their offices.
  • Best decorated office wins prize.
  • Winner is announced at a holiday lunch.
  Lights, Camera, Action!
  • Employees dress up as their favorite movie character or TV show personality.
  • Best dressed wins and winner's favorite rerun or movie is shown during kickoff lunch.
  Office Olympics
  • Teams must be made throughout the office.
  • Determine sign up fees.
  • Teams will participate in events such as making paper airplanes to see whose flies the longest distance; dress for success relay; shooting crumpled paper into wastebaskets, department darts etc.
  • Encourage departments to enroll staff.
  • Hold finals in the main lobby for all to see.
  • Awards/prizes will be given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.
  Roast
  • Roast a long time staff member over a catered lunch.
  • It's an honor for the "roastee" and a hoot for those in attendance!
  • Charge $10.00 for a roasted turkey plate.
  Shhh! Silent Auction
  • Have staff bid silently on items such as extra vacation days, longer lunch hours; VIP parking spots, dinner passes, casual days, etc.
  • Money raised goes to campaign. Sports Shorts Organize a softball, basketball, touch football, or bowling tournament.
  • Staff socialize outside of work, creating stronger bonds!
  • Assign teams to pay to play! 
  Survivor
  • Create tribes to compete against one another, each containing one member from upper management.
  • Hold physical and mental challenges each day where tribes compete for prizes such as an extra 30 minutes on lunch, tickets to shows, etc.
  • Challenges can include office mini-putt game, puzzles, quizzes, and scavenger hunts.
  • The grand prize goal is a day of paid vacation.
  Tailgate Party
  • Have a Monday night tailgate during football season.
  • Each employee pays $10.00 to attend.
  • When work lets out, gather everyone together and serve hot dogs, wings, chips and beverages.
  • Rent a big screen TV, watch the game as a team while enjoying great food.
  Walk A Mile in My Shoes
  • Ask staff to come to work in their craziest pair of shoes prepared to have a wild and crazy lunch.
  • Serve items such as FOOT-long subs, CORN chips, SHOESTRING french fries.
  • Play Blue Suede Shoes, Kicking You Out, Footloose, and Boots Were Made for Walking
  ."Who Knows the Nose" Contest
  • Have employees take pictures of their noses.
  • Hang the pictures on a wall.
  • For a small fee ($1.00) employees can guess the nose "owners."
  • Employee guessing the most correct noses in the shortest amount of time is the winner.
  • Winner takes half the pot.  
 
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