Our do-it-yourself fundraising ideas come in a variety of sizes and shapes.  Some contain detailed instructions while others are just brief summaries of past fundraising activities of other organizations.  Hopefully you can adapt some of them to have fun and raise funds for your group. We often include similar information from multiple sources to reflect possible variations. You will definitely find some repeats but ... just maybe ... that's because they have proven to be successful!

If you have some fundraising ideas that you are willing to make available to other groups, send them to us via email at     and we'll include them in this section (with credit to you of course). Try to provide as much information as possible. Include anything and everything you would want to know if you were hearing the idea for the first time. Commercial listings are not eligible for the DIY section.

Baseball Marathon	Christmas Tree Walk	Flamingo Flocking
Spirit Chain	Squeegee Day	Cow Pie Bingo
Crock Pot Cook Off	Womanless Beauty Pageant	Blow It Up
Paw Painting Art Show	50-50 Raffle	Chicken Soup Swim
What's Your Idea?	Adult Spelling Bee	Santa Ski
Stair Climb	Miniature Bible Town	Cheap Little Tarts
Carnival	Best Seat in the House	Singing Christmas Cards
Tacky Yard	Valentine Bows	Car Smash
Dog Walk	Pet Remembrance Tree	Candy Cane-a-Gram
Night In Jail	YCJCY1D	Dinner For A Week
Donation Containers		MONOPOLYŽ Tournament
Pucker Up!		Lingerie Show
Punkin Chunkin		Balloon Bust
Potty Protection Insurance		Goat Insurance
Pajama Day		Can Drive
Fake Election	Karaoke Night	Cake Walk
Community Service	Garden Fresh	Miniature Golf Tourney
Santa Letter	Don't Come Event	Pregnant Belly Billboard
Scrabble Tournament	Head & Face	Babysitting
Target Stores	Mr. Potato Head	A Kiss Goodbye
Make Believe Tea Party	Tree of Lights	Kiss The Pig
Sticky Fly	Face Painting	Kiss The Cow
Stock In Youth Group	Cardboard Boat Race	Teacher Torture
The Pastor Pays	Sell Your Wares	Safeway
Clean-up	Canadian School Fundraisers	Christmas Wreaths
Angel Tree	Fresh Choice	Hearts Marathon
Sitting Pretty	Caged For Critters	Outlaw Hunt
Cookbook	Vacation Donation	Jail-and-Bail
Town Calendar	Luxury Lockup	Lazy Boy Day
Egg and Beg	General Mills	Burger/Pizza Bucks
What's Your Idea?	Blind Auction	Raffle Table
Dinner Auction	Truck & Equipment Show	House Numbers
Children's Cookbook	Food Lion	Breakfast With ....
Road Rally Poker Hand	Fill The Bank	It's a Girl Thing!
Plane Pull	Fund-Raiser Insurance	Skip-a-Meal
Golf Tournament	Reverse Raffle	Balloon-O-Gram
Albertsons Foods	Tyson's Foods	Car Wash
Craft Fair/Bake Sale	Test Drive	Trike-a-thon
What's Your Idea?	Humane Society	Time & Talents
Campbell's Soup Co.	Celebrity Autographs	Radio Days
Spell-A-Thon	Center Court Toss	Grub Day
Dog Treats	Care Packages	Pet Parade
Shower With Flowers	Giant Foods	Nude Calendar
Thons	Rent-A-Puppy	Good Grades
Topless Car Wash	Money Tree	Animal Photos
Job Cards	Favorite Photos Contest	Guessing Game
Restaurant Take Over	Penny Drive	Poinsettia Sale
Super Bowl Sub Sale	Bring Your Dog To Work	Auctions
Mom-O-Grams	Movie Night	Bakeless Bake Sale
Equipment Swap	Benefit Sing	Chinese Auction
Canoe Joust	Polar Bear Plunge	Pass The Can
Give A Buck	Jewel-Osco	Student/Faculty Basketball
Treasure Hunt	Kidnap The Pastor	Door To Door For Pennies
Drive For Dollars	Smores	Charity Yard Sale
UK Collection	Goblin Insurance	Where Has Dolly Been?
Poop Pool	Flag Subscription Service	Gift Wrapping
Homemade Lollipops	Basket Raffle	Dinners
College Groups	OfficeMax	Pathfinders
Gas Station Attendant	Bagging for Bucks	Cookie Sale
Honey-Do	Ugly Tie Contest	Crazy Hat Day
Mall Coat Check	In-House Poker Run	Horse Show
Pumpkin Festival	Snowman Poop	Prom Boutique
Cobweb Chase	Lake Ice Melts	Play Dough

Notice

Many of the do-it-yourself fundraising ideas included in this section were provided by individual fundraisers from around the world such as yourself, while others were gleaned from a variety of other Internet sites. We try to provide appropriate credit to the sources but we sometimes find some good fundraising ideas in bulletin board messages that do not fully identify the author so we go with what we have. If you find that a narrative originated from you and credit is not adequately shown, please send us an email to  .  We will include credit to you/your site or remove the narrative immediately - depending on your preference.