- Intergenerational Coffee House
- Pancake Breakfast
- 24-Hour Relay Challenge www.commatters.org
- Pledges for A-Thons: Bike, Walk, Run, Read
- Sports tournaments: tennis, golf, basketball, volleyball, softball, etc.
- Intergenerational Dances
- Sell products (Flowers for Mother’s Day, Candy, Subscriptions)
- Other sale ideas: community-wide garage sale, cookbook, bake sale, plant sale
- Raffle (get donations from local businesses, sports figures, etc.) Hold on a regular basis or in conjunction with other events
- Luncheons or dinners: with speaker, style show, young people talent show
- Theatre or concert party – tickets at different levels: patron saint, arch angel, angel, cherub! (For the luncheons/dinners and theatre/concert party, personal invitations to the event works best)
- Antique, handicraft, or art fair
- Carnival
- Sports Bingo
- Direct mail
- Door to door canvassing (by kids – provide training)
- Ask a local service club (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, etc.) if they would agree to buy out a local live theatre performance and then sell tickets for slightly above the ticket price as a benefit
- Serve-A-Thon (classes, schools, youth groups): Initiatives and families get pledges to do service projects on a specific day in the community
- Sell temporary tattoos – Logo of a school team on tattoos that can be sold at games. Multi-colored temporary tattoos can be purchased for about 9¢ a piece when bought in lots of 10,000.
List of fundraising ideas from www.search-institute.org