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If you have a church website (and you really should!), all you have to do is sign up for the affiliate program and place a link to Amazon somewhere on your website.
Each time someone goes to Amazon and buys something using your affiliate link, your church will get a portion of the sale. It’s that easy!
Ebates is a website that grants users cash back on everyday purchases from big-name retailers and online vendors.
If your church’s staff shops online for office supplies or other items, they can use Ebates to make a little extra money for every online purchase.
Gumdrop is a website that helps users save money while shopping at all of their favorite online stores.
When you use Gumdrop to shop online, the site donates 1-5% of funds to your favorite charities, schools, or churches with just the click of a button.
Host a christian speed dating event at your church for congregants looking for love. Your church can set up a simple potluck dinner or an elegant catered mixer for hopeful lovebirds.
Ticket sales to your event can be used to raise money for your congregation.
Plan an Easter egg hunt at your church for a fun event that the whole family can enjoy. Hold a contest and award whoever finds the most eggs a special prize.
Your church can sell tickets to this event or seek sponsorship from a local business to raise money.
Your church can sell engraved bricks to help fund your next construction project. Your congregants can write personal messages on their bricks, or you can engrave the donors’ names on them.
These bricks can then be used in your project and create lasting memories.
Holding a themed youth group party is a great way to get young people excited about your church! You can sell tickets to these events as a way to fundraise, or even auction off prizes to attendees.
The proceeds of these parties can go back into your congregation’s youth group program.
With a 50/50 raffle, you won’t have to worry about finding a cool item to present. The winner receives half of the funds raised instead of a traditional prize.
You can combine your raffle with another fundraiser to raise even more funds for a youth group field trip or community project.
You can have young congregants create holiday decorations and provide decorating services. You can have volunteers set up and take down decorations for holidays throughout the year.
Congregants can pay a fee per holiday for teens to set up their decorations, and they can sell them new decorations as well!
Everyone loves cookies! Your church can capitalize on that craving by selling cookie dough to your congregants and members of your community.
You can sell cookie dough directly to your congregants, or they can sell the dough to their friends, family members, and coworkers.
Candles are the perfect year-round product for your church to sell. Look for high-quality candles that fall within your church’s price range.
Then, you can sell the candles directly to your congregants or have them sell them to their friends and family members. You can even set up an online storefront to sell the candles online.
In an envelope fundraiser, donors will pick a numbered envelope and give whatever number is on the front. You’ll be surprised what you can raise!
With 100 envelopes you can raise $5,050, and that number only goes up when you increase the number of envelopes you use.
For an appreciation gram fundraiser, you can charge your congregants a fee to send a customized letter acknowledging friends.
You can send your notes with a piece of candy or another small gift for an additional price.
The swap shop fundraiser is similar to a garage sale, but instead of selling items for cash, your congregants can trade items and services.
Your church can charge an admission fee to the sale to raise money.
A walkathon can be a larger-scale event that can take months to prepare. But with the right tools, your church can host a dynamite walkathon and raise some extra money.
Congregants can set up a P2P page and start fundraising!
An Angel Festival is similar to a carnival and usually occurs around Christmas. For the event, your artistic congregants can create angels out of any materials they want.
On the big day, you can showcase all the angels with a bowl beside each one so that congregants can place contributions.
A family fun day is a great way to get your congregation involved in raising funds for your cause. For your family fun day, you can set up games, food and drinks, and a donation table.
It’s an opportunity for your congregants to bond, welcome new members, and enjoy a few family-friendly games.
If students in your congregation are looking for a way to pay for a mission trip, look no further than a Make the Grade fundraiser.
The students will set goals for the GPA or grades they will maintain throughout the semester, and if they meet their goals, their family or other members of the congregation will chip in for the travel costs.
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