1.Balloon pop — Fill a room with balloons, hide prizes inside a select few, and sell needles to event-goers for a chance to “pop for prizes.”
2.Red cup party — Host a cocktail party and have participants buy red Solo cups at the door, at a wildly inflated price to be donated to your cause.
3.Sky lantern sendoff — Host an evening celebration where partygoers make a wish on a paper lantern, light a flame inside, and send it off in the sky.
4.Treasure hunt — Use an app like
Actionbound to set up a treasure hunt that combines an IRL (in real life) experience with augmented reality on a device.
5.Silent auction — You don’t have to auction off gift baskets. Get creative with the auction items. Think about
experiences instead of things. Perhaps you have a donor willing to grant access to his vacation home for the weekend, for instance.
6.Employer Match — Many employers offer a matching grant program for donations made to a 501c3 charity.
