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Source: http://www.doksinet Holiday Fundraising Ideas Wrap Presents: During holiday time (Christmas or Mothers Day) set up a booth at a local mall, plaza or busy department store. Have your team members donate the paper and tape and raise money while helping out the holiday shoppers. Holiday Caroling Holiday Bake Sale: make all kinds of goodies and package them in holiday tins, bags, boxes, bowls and treat bags. Crafts: In a holiday mood? Craft tree ornaments, stockings or decoration and sell them. Turkey Drawing: Great way to raise money at Relay! Get a grocery store to donate a certificate for a turkey or ham to be picked up just in time for Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas or a BBQ package for Labor Day or Memorial Day. Food is always a good item to chance off. • • • • • “Thanks for Giving” /Christmas Pies: Take orders now. Sell pies for $10$18 Have team members commit to making 4 pies each Deliver the pies for Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner. Great given as a gift

or just to help out those working women. A nice touchinclude a handwritten tag: “Thanks for helping us fight cancer”. Tree of Lights: Have people in the community pay $10 for a light that represents their lost loved one. Gather as a community outside to light the tree and sing hymns. Use white lights If possible, do this outside in a visible place in the community. The tree stays lit until the New Year Luminarias could line the parking lot where people are sitting or standing. People gather afterwards in an office or a church for cider and cookies. “Breakfast with Santa”: Hold a Breakfast with Santa fundraising event in December. Sell tickets for $10 in advance or $12 at the door Serve pancakes, sausage, bacon, coffee, milk and juice (get this donated by a local grocery or restaurant). Servers dress as Santa’s elves Santa visits each table addressing the children by name (courtesy of name tags). Santa then retreats to his decorated throne where you sell pictures of the

children with Santa. Use a digital camera (with laptop computer and printer) on a tripod for consistently clear shots. Arrange a good backdrop and/or props sucha as a sleigh or reindeer. You could even hold a Silent Auction (think Christmas decorations or kid’s gifts) for the parents. Christmas Tree/Wreaths: Ask a local retailer to donate $1 for every tree and wreath sold to support your Relay team. Christmas Tidings: Make fresh evergreen wreaths to sell adorned with festive holiday bows, berries, and pinecones. Source: http://www.doksinet • • • • • • • • • • • Candy Cane – A- Gram: What you need: candy cane-a-gram slip of paper, "elves" helpers to sell, advertise, and put together the candy cane-a-grams, candy canes, posters to help advertise them, "elves" to help deliver them, pens/pencils to write with. Students (usually in middle school and high school) can purchase a note for a student, teacher or secret admirer. You charge

$.50 for one or five for $200 They put on the card, the persons name, grade, and home-room teacher. People really enjoy receiving the candy cane and note. This is a great Christmas fundraiser Singing Christmas Cards: Similar to a singing telegram, this fund raiser is easy because everyone can sing Christmas carols. Designate a captain wholl be the spokesperson when the team arrives to sing for customers. Have them dress in unique costumes and take along Christmas cookies to hand out. Advertise your service to your community and your church Holiday Decorating Service: No time to decorate for the holidays? Offer to put holiday decorations up in or on the house for a feea job many people would like for someone else to do! “Raking It In For a Cure”: Go from door-to-door, offering to rake leaves for a donation to your team. Holiday Cards: Send a Thanksgiving or Christmas card with a letter about your participation in Relay For Life asking for a donation- include your team photo dressed

to your campsite theme. Holiday Email: Get on track with on-line fundraising. Send and e-mail to friends, family, and associates, asking them for donations instead of a gift. Holiday party with a Purpose: Teams can throw a neighborhood party and put the money towards their teams. Pie Auctions or “No Need to Bake Sale”: Great for holidays! Sell for a specified price or have a live auction. Display pies before church and have auction at church. Be sure to get famous “pie bakers” involved Go to businesses, schools, and healthcare facilities and help-out those working women that don’t have time to bake goodies for holiday parties. “Santa’s Helper Shopping Night”: Offer a babysitting service at a local church on a Saturday while parents do their Christmas shopping in peace and enjoy a night out without the kids. Show Christmas movies, play games and serve snacks and have plenty of adult supervision. *For an additional fundraiser: Have a follow-up Santa’s Helper Gift

Wrapping service. Have them reserve their time when they pick up their children from the shopping night. Gift Wrapping: After Santa’s Helper Shopping Night- Have a follow-up gift wrapping night. Angel Tree: For Christmas, sell lace angel ornaments for $10 donations which people can buy in memory of or in honor of anyone they choose. Those ornaments are then placed in Christmas trees at the office until a few days before Christmas. Have an open house in which people can come and take their angels off the trees. It is a good time of sharing with the Source: http://www.doksinet • community as they gather together during the Open House. Serve refreshments. Bakeless Bake Sale: Send this letter to your co-workers: You are invited to NOT bake a cake, pie, cookies, or brownies. You do NOT have to find the recipe. You do NOT have to shop for the ingredients You do NOT have to mix. You do NOT have to cook You do NOT have to cut You do NOT have to wrap. You do NOT have to wash dishes You

do NOT have to clean up your kitchen. You do NOT have to deliver the baked product You do NOT have to stand in the heat/cold/rain to sell the baked product. You can write a check for $10.00 to "American Cancer Society" and stay home and enjoy doing something yourself or with your family!