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Other Ideas

Here is a long list of different fundraising event ideas that have worked well for other chapters and clubs. The best way to have a successful and effective fundraiser is to look at your own leadership team and chapter and see what talents, skills, and interests you have.

Remember: Use the IJM college chapters donation page for

Collecting Donations⁠

and review the

Terms of Fundraising⁠

when planning a fundraiser.

Fair Trade Fashion Show

This can be a large event hosted on or off campus and can involve many different groups of people on campus. Pick fair trade brands and have stylists compile outfits in those fair trade brands.

Some ideas:

Thrifted outfit.

Look at Dressember’s

Ethical Fashion Directory⁠

Have a runway and get models to wear each outfit and show it off on the runway.

Have judges who can judge each model's outfit and pick a winner in the end.

Reach out to the Drama department for models, and the photography/arts department for photographers and videographers

Valentines Day Candy Grams

Use the Love Holiday to advocate about modern day slavery and send rescue and protection.

Deliver candy grams.

Talk about and sell fair trade chocolate.

“Break chains not hearts.”

All You Can Eat Event

Choose to use your freedom and access to food to enter an eating competition to raise awareness and funds to fight slavery and violence.

Have prizes for the winners.

Ask people to donate _____ (money amount) per _____ (food item) eaten.

Bake Sale

Have people donate baked goods and host an event on campus selling them, Then, donate all the proceeds to IJM.

Some ideas for baked goods:

Brownies

Allergy friendly desserts

Ice cream sandwiches

Coffee

Community Service

This gives your club members a chance to have an impact on the surrounding community and not just on campus.

Reach out to local charities, churches, schools, nursing homes, etc. Ask what work they need help with.

Offer it for free but say any money given will be donated to help end modern day slavery and violence against people in poverty.

You can also do a Beach Trash Cleanup or Park Trash Cleanup.

Fund My Run

Host a run and ask people to donate.

For every _____ amount donated you and the contestants will run _____ amount of miles.

Or you could commit to running 12 miles and asking people to donate ___ amount per mile you run.

You can also do a relay run with your chapter, where you all together run 10 miles but each person takes 1.5 miles. This bonds your chapter and gets more people involved!

Look for official Race to Restore resources from IJM to come every spring!

Sell Merch

Not only do college kids love wearing merch, but it gives you free promotion! It can also be a great opportunity to get the art department on your campus involved to design your merch.

Merch ideas:

Stickers

T-shirts

Mugs

Hats

Sweatshirts

Local Coffee Shop

Partner with a local coffee shop.

Ask if they can sell your merchandise.

Design a drink for them and ask if some of the proceeds can go towards ending Human Trafficking.

Have the coffee shop stay open later one night of the week and all those proceeds goes towards IJM.

Offer your people to work for them for free and get that money donated if you have any chapter members who are baristas.

Host a Local Band for a Show

If you know any small name bands that are local, contact them.

Make sure you do a lot of advertising to get people to come.

You get the band's fan base and be able to advocate to more people.

Ask them to play a “freedom song” to talk about why they have that show that night and what it’s all about.

Charge entry fee and charge for VIP backstage access!

Fundraiser through Chick Fil A

Chick Fil A partners with different churches and organizations for causes like this.

Everyone who goes to Chick Fil A during the allotted amount of time and claims to be with your IJM chapter, part of the cost of their meal gets donated directly to IJM.

Reach out to Chick Fil A

here⁠

Sports Tournament

Host a bracketed tournament with prizes and donate the money to IJM.

Charge a cheap entry fee for teams who want to participate.

Ideas for which sports:

Spike Ball

Basketball Free Throw Challenge

Ping Pong

Pool

Foosball

Sand Volleyball

Sports Lessons

Engage different students who are skilled in a particular sport and offer lessons for that sport.

The money charged for those lessons goes directly to IJM.

Lesson ideas to offer:

Surfing

Skating

Game Night

Host a night of a major bracket for games with prizes.

Board games or online games (JackBox).

Create brackets to find the ultimate winner.

Offer prizes for the winners.

Charge to play and enter the bracket.

Bet on who will win each game, the betting money goes to IJM.

Movie Night

Have a big movie night on campus!

Rent out a large classroom, and use the projector to play a movie.

Sell snacks and popcorn for people to enjoy!

Set out comfy pillows, chairs and blankets.

Show a documentary about modern day slavery and human trafficking, such as:

Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (Found on YouTube.)

I Am Brave (through IJM - check out

ijm.org/fearless⁠

for the most up to date materials on hosting this!)

Not My Life

I am Jane Doe

The True Cost (Found on YouTube.)

Partner with Other Clubs on Campus

This gives you the awesome opportunity to reach other students on campus, advocate to people who might not know about the problem of violence against people in poverty yet, and use their ideas for events! Here are a few ways you could collaborate with other clubs on campus:

Nutrition club: fair trade food.

Art club: art therapy classes.

Ultimate frisbee club: frisbee tournament.

Film club: watch an anti-human trafficking documentary.

Dessert Decorating Contest

Make a ton of basic cakes or donuts or sugar cookies and let the decorating begin!

Have allergy friendly options (gluten and dairy free).

Have judges decide whose cookie is the best decorated.

Offer for people to make their own frosting.

Plant Sale

Plants are a trend right now so let’s use that!

Find a cheap place to buy some plants and cheap flower pots. Arrange them together yourself in a cute way and sell them.

Buy the regular red clay flower pots and have your chapter paint them to make them look cute!

Take clippings of succulents from other plants to pot new ones.

Recycling Bottle Drive

Start this in the beginning of the semester and then donate them all at the end!

Have a designated person who is collecting the bottles, so people know who to give them to.

Bring them to a recycling center and donate whatever money you make from them.

Ice Cream and Root Beer Float Social

Everyone loves a social event! Why not have one that also helps end violence and oppression?

This works best when it’s still hot outside, like in September. It can also be a good first event to help people meet each other!

Charge for a root beer float or ask for donations only.

Use sodas other than root beer for a fun twist!

Offer allergy friendly options (dairy-free ice cream).

Photoshoot

A way to get the art department involved or if you have a photographer in your chapter who is willing to offer their skills for free.

You can also do a photo shoot with your chapter to use for advertising purposes.

Photo Booth

Create a photo booth that people can have fun with but that also speaks to the problems of injustice in the world.

When people take pictures and post them, it’s free advertisement.

Have photo booth props that speak about the problem of human trafficking and modern day slavery, as well as ways to take action and get involved.

Make signs with statistics.

Charge to keep the printed photos.

Host an Open Mic Night/Talent Show

Let people show off their talents.

Host it on campus where people will be walking by.

Try to have people sign up beforehand but also take walk ups if you have the space for it.

At the beginning, middle, and end have someone talk about why you are hosting this event.

Charge an entry fee to perform or to watch.

Yard Sale from Old Dorm Stuff

Ask people to donate their old furniture and stuff as they clean out their dorms at the end of the semester. Have a garage sale, maybe even host it off campus in a neighborhood.

Car Wash on Campus

Make sure you have a big space (like an empty parking lot) with a place to plug in a hose.

You’ll need to bring your own hose, buckets, soap, sponges, and towels.

Advertise a cheap drive through on campus car wash! College students ALWAYS have dirty cars.

For an extra charge you can offer to clean the inside of their car too!

You will need a vacuum, duster, cleaning spray, and hand towels.

Tattoo Fundraiser Idea

This can be done entirely on social media as well.

Everyone who donates to you can submit a drawing of a tattoo. If you raise ____ amount of money, you pick from the drawings and get a tattoo on your body of it!

You can submit a drawing every time you donate to incentivize people to donate multiple times.

Used Book Sale

Textbooks or fun books.

Have people donate old books and host a used book sale.

It could even have an old textbook section and a regular book section.

When you are done you can donate the remaining books to your schools library or the local library.

Haircut Fundraiser

Make sure everyone doing this one is willing to!

If you raise ___ amount of money, everyone shaves their head/gets a mullet or some crazy haircut.

Also could be everyone will dye their hair a certain color.

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