Getting It Right! For Ohio's Future

Fundraising Tool Kit

Plan fundraising events at local schools, recreation, or community centers. Examples include a pancake breakfast, fish fry, or spaghetti dinner. Charge per person, with slight price break for a family. Have food and manpower donated. Offer carry-out.
Use an existing event as a venue for prominently displaying "Getting It Right for Ohio's Future" information coupled with accepting donations.
Set a fundraising goal at one or more of your schools and challenge all students, teachers and parents to reach that goal. When reached the school principal or the district superintendent goes in a dunk tank or takes pies in the face.
Hold car washes throughout your district or community and charge for a minimum amount per car; more for a truck, van or SUV.
Conduct fundraising among the students at your high schools. The grade levels can challenge each other to raise the most money and the winning grade achieving a special perk before school recesses for summer.
Within school fundraising, including teachers, other school personnel, and students, draw a winner among all who donate and allow that person to be principal for a day.
Hold bake-sales, cake walks, etc. during other planned events before summer recess.
Partner students and parents together to hold a themed fundraising event focused on future generations/public education. Games could be designed around time, the calendar, etc. to make a difference for the future of Ohio.
Build towards the future by linking a paper chain from a specific point to a specific point. For each dollar donated a person can add a link with their name or a name to honor someone. Sell links for $1.00 each, ten for $5.00, or 20 for $10.00; the bigger the better. Notify local television news they may cover the story.
Hold a pet parade at the elementary school level and charge an entry fee as the fundraiser. Pets could be dressed in costumes; a photographer could donate time and take photos for a charge, which could also be a way to add raising money to the overall event.
Run a monthly fundraiser during each of the three summer months. Use a unifying theme leading to some sort of culmination. Involve school children, their parents and school teachers/personnel; we are all in this together and together we can achieve our goal(s).
Organize your high schools sports team members into sports clinics. They could teach younger ones skill sets associated with that particular sport. Charge one entry fee to participate for the entire allotted time; a morning or a day long event.
Run a fee-only, daylong cheerleading camp led by all the high schools cheerleaders in your district offered to the entire community/county.