Fund Raising Ideas. - Wilcox,PA

Find local Zumba instructors who have a following. They will usually be glad to hold a 'zumbathon'.

I'm so sorry to hear about this.

You could do a bake sale, rummage sale, car wash etc.

I am wishing your nephew the best & will keep him in my prayers.

I am so sorry to hear about your nephew. See if there are any foundations/organizations in his area that help with fundraising for sick children (for example, there is a Talbert Family Foundation near LA that helps provide funds and fundraising opportunities for local children). Through the foundation, you may be able to set up restaurant nights where a local restaurant will donate a certain percentage of the night's sales (usually 10 - 20%) back to the family. Set up as many of these as you can. Get a group of his friends together to run a big community lemonade stand/bake sale/garage sale. Donate all proceeds.

Set up a caringbridge.com site to give updates about his condition. Provide donation info on the site but make sure people know NOT to donate directly to caringbridge, as the funds go to the site and not the patient.

Also, simply spread the word through facebook campaigns and you never know who might end up donating. Friends of friends may give. I recently donated $100 for a little girl I never met, or even heard of, but my friend is close to the little girl's family so I wanted to help.

Trivia Night's are very popular fund raisers. You could probably find a church willing to host. Sell food and drinks. Often times local businesses will donate items to be auctioned off.

With it being football season (and soon to be basketball season) at your local high schools, I would suggest that you contact the school about doing a fundraiser at each of the home games (which will work well primarily if your nephew goes to school in that district). One of the best things we ever did was a "Split the Pot" (I know that sounds bad now...you could call it something different). The gist behind it is quick and tickets are very reasonably priced. We usually did $1 per ticket or 6 tickets for $5. All of the money for tickets goes into the pot. Then at the end of the game (or end of half time, when people have been up getting their mid-game treats or whenever), the proceeds from the pot are split in half....half goes to the winning ticket number and the other half goes to the fund for your nephew's medical expenses. This is always a HUGE hit at my alma matter...and I wasn't surprised to hear that they are still doing this as a fundraiser at every home game....it brought in over $1200 (so $600/$600) at this most recent game that I was at. I feel like that's pretty decent money for no more than selling tickets AT the game and calling out the number. We always would set up the stand with some really good posters right next to the area where people pay for tickets. People would pay for the game and generally get a few tickets as they walked by. I would note that the first time you do this, people may need to learn more, but after a couple of times of doing this fundraiser and the announcer making a really big deal of the amount that the person won, people really buy into it quick.

Praying for your nephew and family during this tough time. Good luck with the fundraising.

Put together a holiday, do it around Halloween, sale. Invite all of the home business people you can find. People who have Mary Kay, Tupprware, Avon etc invite them to have a booth for $50/day, also ask them to donate 25% of sales generating from the event. You can also ask local business to donate items for a silent auction and/or a drawing.

The trick here is only one rep from each company you invite. Don't do a raffle unless you contact your state representitive, there are tons of laws about raffles.

I had a booth at one of these several years ago and we raised $1500. in one day.

You could do a dinner fundraiser. Spaghetti is easy to do with a big crowd. You can ask for more donations at the dinner. Local places may be willing to give you a discount to have it at their restaurant.

You can also do some kind of "athon" where family or friends try to see how many of something they can do and people pledge money per thing. So it could be laps in a pool, laps around an area, jumping jacks--anything!

You can also approach local businesses.

I believe there are websites where you can set up for online donations. Google it. You should set up a website where friends and family can keep up with what's going on.

Good luck, and prayers for your nephew.

So sorry to hear this.

Find a free place to hostess a giant rummage sale. Church, someone's large yard, street corner.

Sell spots at an affordable price (25 dollars each) and donate those table sales to your nephew's cause. If you sell 20 spots that's 500 dollars.

there is a website called gofundme check it out

I am sorry about your nephew. It must be a very trying time on your family.

When I lived in a smaller town, they would sponsor fish fry's, spaghetti dinners, and live music.

Now that I am in a larger area (Dallas burbs), we get hit with fundraising from every angle all the time. Many of us grow suspicious of it, even though much of it is legit.

My thoughts would be to contact a CPA and legal counsel and if you explain your situation, many would help you at no charge because it is not hard to do. They can help you set up a 501c3 with tax info, and get you started so that if you did ask corporations, set up a fun run, etc,..then people are more likely to believe your case and do more for you. Especially corporations.

As a business owner myself, I have to have the proper documentation anytime I contribute to a cause and part of that documentation is the 501c3 form and a W9. As long as I have that info, I am more comfortable with donating funds because that backs me up with the IRS. I don't just write a check to someone without proper documentation because if I were to be audited, that could bite me in the rear with the IRS.

If you have any knowledge of taxes, etc, you can go on to your state government site and get all of this info yourself to set up your cause.
Best wishes.