How to Raise $100

Thanks to Dan Clark for these great ideas!
 If you are raising money for Doma International, Team Up 4 Orphans, or any other the worthy causes, here are some simple ideas you might consider from A to Z:

Ask your friends, family, co-workers, others in your church to donate. Just 10 people giving $10 makes $100!

Books. Sell your textbooks and other books you don’t need and donate the money. Works for CD’s and DVDs as well!

Coffee Take the money you would spend on one coffee or other beverage a day and set it aside. Also, realize that coffee is often grown under slave conditions.

Donate a day’s wage yourself from your job. You can even do this after taxes if you want!

Email your address book. Write a paragraph about why you are raising money and invite people to donate.

Facebook fund raise. Use Pages and Causes, status updates and Notes to invite your friends to donate.

Garage sale. You know you need to get rid of all that stuff anyway! Do it with friends to make it bigger.

Host an info night for your small group, your church or even your apartment or residence hall and pass the hat!

Ice cream social. Host one and ask people to donate to partake!

Jail and Bail. Arrange to have yourself ‘arrested’ (don’t break any laws, however!) and have friends bail you out—you don’t go free until they pony up $100!

Kitsch for cash. Have a party where you bring all your tacky stuff and buy from each other.

Lunch. Skip a lunch a week and donate the money. Enlist others.

Money Jars. Great for your work place.

Networks. Use Twitter, Facebook, and your cell phone book to contact and call people to help.

Offer yourself to do odd jobs for people explaining that you are raising money and why.

Pizza. Sell it, fast from it, or buy ready made or store bought pizzas in place of pizza shop pizza (usually about half the cost) and donate the proceeds.

Questions for a buck. Say you’ll try to answer any question for a buck.

Roll your change and donate it. It has been sitting in that jar so long that you’ll never miss it!

Shave your head (or dye your hair) to raise awareness. Agree to do this if your friends donate $100.

Tax refunds are a great resource. Again, you’ve lived a year without that money.

Unsubscribe and unplug. Give up that video subscription. How many tunes do you have on that iPod? Do you need a hundred more?

Video night. Invite your friends over, provide the popcorn and give them a chance to donate. Show a film or documentary that highlights the cause you are raising money for.

Water bottle instead of soft drinks or bottled water. Donate the difference for a month.

Xylophone or other musical instrument concert – anything from a recital to playing on the street (buskering!) to raise money.

Yard sale. Just like a garage sale without the garage. You really know you want you to get rid of that stuff!

Ziti dinner. Kind of cross between spaghetti and macaroni and cheese. Make up a batch and host a dinner fund-raiser.