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See Also:
Shower With Flowers,
Flamingo Flocking,
Goating
and Tacky Yard
More: The Azle,
Texas High School Student Council, brought their traveling toilet
to help raise funds to attend their annual State Convention. Enter the
Traveling Toilet. The Toilet traveled from one
yard to another for a price – $2 moved it out
of your yard, $5 moved it out of your yard and
into the yard of your choice, $6 moved it out
of your yard and into some else's and fix it so that the toilet never
returns to your yard.
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And even more: As part of Green Cove
Springs, Florida's efforts to support the American Cancer Society's
Relay for Life fundraising project, team members painted a toilet
purple. For a donation, they would deposit the "pretty potty"
(complete with flowers) on the yard of some lucky recipient. If you
found it in your yard, you could make a donation to have it removed
and sent somewhere else. |
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And More:
A toilet around the town of Alton, IL has
people talking. The colorful commode
mysteriously circulating around area lawns is guaranteed to get a
laugh from anyone who has seen or heard of it.
But the toilet is serious business.
All the proceeds from the toilet fund-raiser go to a wider effort by
the youth group of Abundant Life Community Church to raise $25,000
by the end of the year to fund Project Rescue, which keeps teenage
girls in the Eastern European country of Moldova out of the sex
trafficking trade. The toilet, a surprise
sight on the lawns of dozens of parishioners in the area since the
beginning of May, has generated buzz from people wondering about the
background story behind the newfangled lawn ornament.
"People just hear toilet, they're putting a toilet in the
yard, but we want people to know that we're strategically trying to
raise money," said Eric Hoffmann, Abundant
Life youth pastor. "It shows you what a
group of students can do," Hoffmann said. "I tell them, 'Because of
you, another girl could be rescued off the street, taken out of sex
trafficking in Moldova.'" |
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And More:
Extortion never looked this flamboyant. A
toilet, spray-painted pink and decorated with flowers, has recently
been making the rounds in front yards across Nevada
City, California. Homeowners who find the
porcelain throne stuck in their yard can choose to pay $10 to have
the toilet removed to a friend's lawn, and an additional $5 to make
sure it never appears on their property again. The gimmick is the
design of Bear River sophomore who is
participating in a hunger fundraiser sponsored by the youth group at
her church, Sierra Presbyterian. She got the toilet from Habitat for
Humanity and spray-painted it bright pink. Her
father transports the toilet from location to location, and so far
she's estimated the plan has raised more than $1,200 since they
began. Proceeds from the toilet removal service (victims can opt out
if they don't want to play along) go to an organization called World
Vision, which feeds starving children in Africa.
Students in the youth group have been working on a hunger
initiative recently, which included a 30-hour fast in order to
better understand the effects of hunger, she said. |
We have included a number of do-it-yourself fundraising ideas in this
section such as Potty Protection Insurance that offer a break
from traditional product sales. They were developed by groups just
like yours in an attempt have a little fun with their fundraiser. Some
of them are tried and true while others show a lot of creativity ... and
even wackiness in some cases. All of them are obviously not
appropriate for every group, but sometimes, with only a little
modification, your might find some fund raising ideas that are perfect
for your group. If you have an idea for a do-it-yourself fund raiser you
are willing to share with others, please send it to us via email at  .
Include anything
and everything you would want to know if you were hearing the idea for
the first time. |
