Campaign Fun in the Workplace
We all know that the needs in our community are increasing and the funds to meet these needs are getting harder to come by. You can do some new and fun events in your workplace campaign to raise these needed funds. Below are some thing you can do to make your workplace campaign not only more fun, but also encourage your co-workers to become part of the United Way giving family. We will give you some ideas we have come up with as well as some fun things our supporters have done this year to make their campaigns have more zing.
Change for United Way:
Collect change daily from your co-workers. Employees can empty the cange from their pockets before leaving the workplace into a canister for a pre-determined period of time. Find out how much loose change can add up in a week. You could have a contest with other department and see who can raise the most money in your suggested perior of time.
Silent Auction:
Recruit co-workers to donate handmade items, such as woodworking, jewelry, knitted or crocheted items, quilts, and have a silent auction for these beautifully crafted treasures.
Raffles:
You could also raffle these handmade items, have a 50/50 raffle on paydays, raffle a turkey with the trimmings for Thanksgiving or Christmas, raffle the best parking spot in your parking lot, see if your company has sporting event tickets they would be willing to donate for a raffle, the possiblities are endless, just use your imagination and see what fun ideas you can come up with.
Jean or Sneaker Day for United Way:
Ask you company to consider letting employees wear jeans or sneakers on specific day, for a dollars amount, to raise funds for United Way, if this is what you already wear in you workplace, what about a best hat contest?
Cut Outs for United Way:
If your company has interaction with the public, ask your co-workers to make cut-outs to sell. Pumpkins, for Halloween, Turkeys for Thanksgiving, or Snowmen for Christmas. You could also make cut-outs related to your workplace, cars for an auto company (post them in the break room), blow dryers for a hair salon, steaks for a butcher shop, see what you can come up with for your workplace.
Company Cookbook:
Ask all of your co-workers to bring in their favorite recipe, then create a cookbook to sell to employees or customers. You could also have a pot luck on Fridays for lunch, and charge one price for people who brought a dish, and another price for folks who just want to enjoy the home-cooked meal.
$5.00 Poker:
For smaller offices, you can recruit your employees to play poker $1.00 per card. Draw a new card every day for a week, the best hand wins half the money raised.
Dress the Potato:
All of your co-workers can dress a potato (like Mr. Potato Head) then the employees can vote for the potato by using money. Who ever gets the most money wins and receives a prize.
Guess How Many Pennies:
Put pennies in a jar, then sell guesses on how many are in the jar. You could use jelly beans, hairpins, bolts, anything related to your work place would work and make it so much fun.
Bake Sale:
Ask co-workers to bake cookies, cupcakes, ect. and have a bake sale. Everyone love a sweet treat.
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