EASY FUNDRAISING IDEAS!!   

1. Web Site Creation - Once you register online, you will have access to your own personal fundraising website. You can personalize your site with your own pictures and stories. Send emails straight from your site to everyone on your contact list and encourage them to donate to your fundraising efforts. 
2. House Party - This is a sure-fire way to fund raise. 
3. Corporate Matching Gift - Ask your company to match the amount of pledges you receive from your fellow co-workers. 
4. Garage Sale - Know all that stuff that's been hanging out in your garage? in your attic? in your basement? Gather it up and ask your friends to do the same. Put it in your front yard and sell, sell, sell! Put all the money raised toward your pledge minimum! 
5. Bake Sale - Become Julia Child (and ask your friends to do the same) and host a bake sale. You can even have it in conjunction with your garage sale. It's a fact that people will buy more stuff on an empty stomach! 
6. Start your own Extra Change Box - Keep a jar near your door and every day put all your extra coins in it.  It adds up.  Or put it on your desk at work, others will join you 
7. Office Fundraising Challenge - Speak with everyone in your office and get them to challenge each other to raise the highest amount. Give the "winner" a prize. Maybe some movie passes? Gift certificate to dinner? 
8. Answering Machine Message - This will alert everyone who calls you at home that you're up to something special! Let them know that you need their support! 
9. Return Address Labels - Print return address labels for your outgoing mail. Print something like, "I'm walking in the fight against Arthritis - Will you please donate to this wonderful cause?" 
10. Ask your local restaurants to place a money jar at the front of the restaurant - Check with the restaurant manager. They may be willing to place the jar in a high traffic area so lots of patrons can see it. 
11. Fundraising dinner at your local favorite restaurant - Ask your favorite local restaurant to host a Fundraising Dinner for you. They supply the food and your supply the pledge forms! 
12. Theme Party/Dinner - Hold a theme party for 10 (or more) of your friends. Donation: $50.00 per person. Spend no more than $20.00 per person on the food and you'll have $300.00 (or more) by the end of the night. 
13. Movie ticket donation - Ask your local movie house to donate several movie tickets. Raffle them off and put the money toward your fundraising efforts. 
14. Host a movie party at your house - Pick up a new flick at your local movie store, make some popcorn, pick up some soda and invite your friends and family over for movie night. Charge each attendee admission. 
15. Local theater to donate tickets to a performance - Ask a local theater to donate a couple tickets to one of their plays or musicals and auction them off.
16. Birthday gift pledge - This is a very simple way to raise money and it'll be a lot easier for your friends and family to write you a check instead of spending hours trying to shop for you! 
17. Color Donation Letters - These can be very eye-catching. Send them in colored envelopes, too. These will stand out among your friends' bills. 
18. Signing your Correspondence - Get in the habit of signing your note cards and letters with your name AND Arthritis Walk participant. You'll be surprised at how many people will ask you what that means. 
19. Business Cards - Print up some inexpensive business cards (you can even do it on your own computer). Have all the pertinent information on the card including your name, name of the event, and your address (or PO Box #). Hand these out to everyone your meet! 
20. Doctor/Therapist/Veterinarian/Insurance Agent/Mechanic - Ask him/her to make a check out for you instead of the other way around! 
21. Dentist - Hopefully you won't have to pull teeth to get him/her to help you out a little! 
22. Yoga Instructor - You've bent over backwards for them, now it's their turn to do the same for you! 
23. Radio Station - Call your favorite radio station and ask them to make an announcement on the air. They may even interview you. Donations can be sent directly to you. 
24. Gym - Ask you gym to place a Donation Jar at the desk! Leave a stack of brochures at the counter, too. 
25. Hair Salon - Ask your barber or hairdresser to donate $2.00 of every haircut they complete over one weekend. 
26. Picnics - National Holiday Picnics are a great place to raise some money! 
27. Mow-a-thon - Get your kids involved in this weekend activity. Check ahead of time with all your neighbors and ask them if you can mow their lawn for $50.00.
28. Errand boy/girl - Offer to be your friends and coworkers personal assistant for a day (or maybe for just a few hours) in exchange for a large donation. Maybe $250.00 or more! 
29. Meet the Press - Does your company distribute a newsletter? Does your company have interoffice email? Take advantage of these! It's a perfect way to get the word out. 
30. Baby-sitting - Offer up your services and let your friends have a nice, quiet night out of the house! 
31. Pet sit - Are your neighbors going away and they don't want to leave Spot at the boarding facility? Again, offer up your services and charge them what they would have had to pay at the facility! 
32. Neighborhood Chores ? Are you a Mr. Or Ms. Fix-it? A lot of your neighbors would probably rather pay you than someone else. Place signs around your neighborhood advertising your services (i.e. watering gardens, cleaning roof gutters, sweeping the driveway, fixing an easy plumbing problem, painting a room, etc.) 
33. Karaoke Night - Who cares if you can't carry a tune. Spend a Friday night at a Karaoke Bar and sing your guts out! Have the announcer tell the crowd that you're singing for donations!   
34. Ebay.com - Remember the garage sale idea? How 'bout rounding up the goods from your friends and putting it all in Ebay.com to be auctioned off? 
35. Company Vacation Days - Ask your boss or human resources director if they can swap one of your vacation days for a day's pay. 
36. Game night - Get out those board games and start playing! Break into teams and let the fun begin. 
37. Host a poker game - Call your serious (or not so serious) card-playin' friends invite them over for poker night. 
38. Bowling Nights - Plan a fun night of bowling at your local lanes. Ask the owner to waive the cost of bowling and you can collect that money and turn it into pledges. 
39. Used book sale - Everyone has books that have been sitting on shelves or in the attic in boxes or in the basement collecting dust. Ask your friends, family and neighbors to donate whatever they've got and set up a little weekend book sale in your front yard. Put up some signs so people will know where the money is going. Once they know that they may even give you more money! And in the words of Martha Stewart, "That's a good thing". 
40. Curse Jar - C'mon, everyone does it. Now they'll have to pay for it. Place a Curse Jar in your office and whenever someone says a bad word they have to open up their wallet, grab a dollar and put it in the jar. 
41. Dress Down Day - Ask your company to allow an official Arthritis Walk Dress Down Day. For the privilege of dressing down, employees donate $20.00 toward the walk. 
42. Company Grants - Find out if your company offers grants to employees who volunteer their time for charitable causes. If so, you can volunteer your time at the Arthritis Foundation's office and get paid grant money (donations!) for the work. 
43. Church Bulletin - place an advertisement in your Church bulletin letting the congregation know what you're up to! 
44. Fraternities and Sororities - Contact the National Chapter of your college Fraternity or Sorority and ask them to make a donation. 
45. Alumni Organizations - Call your own college or university and ask them to place an ad in the alumni newsletter asking for donations. 
46. Clubs and organizations - Send a solicitation letter to your local Knights of Columbus, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Kiwanis, etc.  They support individuals in their communities. 
47. Raffle - Everyone that contributes is entered into a raffle to win a special item such as a homemade quilt or Red Sox tickets. 
48. Contact your local paper and get an article.  Make sure that you put in information about how people can contribute.  And have a photo ready to go! 
49. Don't get discouraged! 
50. Start now!  The earlier you begin fundraising the better off you'll be. You'll be able to go way beyond what you ever could expect. 

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!