Fundraising Ideas For FraternitiesFraternities are always on the lookout for some extra funds because running a fraternity group is definitely expensive. Having those Greek letters, distributing frat T-shirts, those expensive init processes - everything costs money. Hence, some fundraising ideas for fraternities would surely help. And if these ideas could blend in a bit of fun too, there's nothing better than that. Here are some interesting ideas that are not too expensive to organize. Organizing Frat Parties You might say that organizing frat parties could actually be expensive but that really depends on what you do in them. Keeping some fun activities and even a raffle if need be can be a way to make some good money here. You can keep a gate ticket. Even if it is $10 per head, members of fraternities wouldn't flinch if the event is really good and if they are told this is for keeping their fraternity going. Such a price would wonderfully cover for the events, the food and the beer and even keep money stashed up for future needs. Slave Auctions The whole concept of fraternities revolves around seniors and juniors. This can be taken a step ahead with slave auctions. Frat seniors could be made to bid on people to do their sundry work such as doing homework and college projects for a day. These bids could be stored in the fraternity kits as funds. But the idea is not as weird as it sounds. Frat seniors make their juniors do their work as it is, so how about make it official for a day and get them to pay for it even? If taken sportingly, it could be a whole lot of fun. Of course, rules need to be set on what the masters can make their slaves do and what they cannot and there should be an agreement to that effect. If you want, you can turn the whole idea on its head and make the juniors bid for seniors to act as their slaves. Now that would be real fun! Organizing Competitions and Game Shows There is a lot of craze about various talent competitions nowadays mostly due to the large number of television shows. You can organize such a competition within your frat group. It could be real fun and you might discover some real talent too. People could be made to pay to visit such shows and you can even have them vote on them à la the television shows. A singing or dancing competition or a show where they show their comic talents on the lines of Whose Line is it Anyway? Or Last Comedian Standing could make for great fun. And it is not just competitions that you can keep; you may also organize some of your own versions of popular game shows such as Moment of Truth. You can just imagine the unending options of deviousness you can plan with that one! Fundraising Drives Finally, you can actually use ideas from experienced seniors as consultants to ask them what they did for fundraising in their time. You will get some wonderful strategies from them. The common things you might hear are selling custom products, sending scouts to organize funds, organizing a show and then asking a local company to advertise for it, etc. Such fundraising ideas for fraternities might be old-fashioned, but they really work even today and could be good bonding time for the people of the fraternity. |