"FUN"Raising Ideas
Agencies around Oregon have had a lot of fun and fundraising success by holding special events to celebrate and raise awareness about the CFD. Use the following suggestions as a springboard for coming up with your own ideas. Create variations to suit your own agency’s preferences and style.
Baby Face Contest
Select employees to bring photos of themselves as babies. Ask co-workers to pay $1 per ballot to match the baby pictures to the correct employees. A prize goes to the employee who correctly identifies the most babies.
Tricycle Races
Before the race, employees pay to have sandbags tied to opposing division managers’ trikes. Hold the race in the lunchroom or outside. The first one to the finish line wins a prize for the division (e.g., pizza party).
Ugly Tie/Outrageous Hat Contest
Employees who wish to participate wear their ugliest ties or most outrageous hats and solicit “votes” at $1 each. The person with the most votes at the end of the day wins a prize.
Wacky Rewards
The agency coordinator or a manager might volunteer to do something crazy as an incentive for employees to fill out their pledge forms. One manager vowed to shave his legs publicly, if more than half the office made a pledge through the CFD! Another agency’s senior managers sat in a carnival dunk tank during a lunchtime barbecue, while employees paid a fee to try to dunk them.
Boss Does Job For a Day
Employees who participate in the CFD put their names in a drawing. When an employee’s name is drawn, that employee’s manager does the employees job for a day, takes the employee to lunch, or rewards the employee in some other fun way.
Game Tournaments
Charge an entry fee and collect “bets” on the winner. Charge an entry fee to participants. The winner gets a prize. Variations: Bowling, golf, slam-dunk contests.
Lunch Box Auction
Employees provide lunches to be auctioned. Prizes are given for the most creative or elegant lunches.
Home-Grown Auction
Employees donate random items to auction, such as cakes, cookies, monthly parking spots or a weekend at a summer cabin. Services such as car detailing, a month of lawn-mowing or a gourmet dinner for two may also be auctioned. Be creative!
Rummage or White Elephant Sales
Employees donate items to be sold in the parking lot or cafeteria. Used book / CD / DVD sales can be especially successful.
Food
Bake sales, pie-eating contests, candy bar or popcorn sales, baked potato lunches, lunch-time barbeques, or ice cream socials. Let your stomach be your guide!
DOJ Talent Show
Employment dunk tank