This document provides 15 creative fundraising ideas for Greek organizations, such as sororities and fraternities, to raise money for philanthropic causes. Some of the ideas include hosting a dance marathon where participants get sponsors for every hour danced, organizing a volleyball or other sport tournament between Greek and non-Greek teams, throwing a pizza party or pie throwing contest, renting out members for activities like walking dogs or going on dates, and holding a battle of the bands, talent show, or other competition with an entry fee. The ideas aim to inspire Greek life organizations to fundraise in new and engaging ways.

1. CREATIVE SORORITY
AND FRATERNITY
FUNDRAISING IDEAS

2. Does your Greek life organization need some
inspiration for a new and creative way to
fundraise for your philanthropy?

3. We have rounded up a handful of our favorite
sorority and fraternity fundraising ideas so you can
get fundraising! CHECK THEM OUT!

4. 1
HOST A DANCE
MARATHON

5. Host a dance marathon! Have participants
get sponsors to donate for every hour danced

6. Create a website and add
a DONORBOX DONATION BUTTON (like the
one pictured below!) to collect your
donations securely and easily

7. COOKIE DELIVERY
SERVICE
2

8. Bake cookies and deliver them to your
campus community

9. VOLLEYBALL (OR ANY
SPORT!) TOURNAMENT
3

10. Have Greek and non-Greek organizations sign
up a team at a set price per team

11. THROW A PIZZA PARTY!
4

12. You’d be surprised at how many places are
willing to donate for a philanthropy event, so
don’t be shy in asking small and big
businesses for a pizza donation

13. HAVE A PIE THROWING
CONTEST
5

14. Have members of your Greek organization be
the targets and charge a small fee to throw a
pie at said targets

15. RENT-A-PUP
6

16. Who doesn’t love dogs? Side effects of this
creative fundraising idea include laughs,
giggles, happy people, and an occasional bark

17. DATE AUCTION
7

18. Rally willing participants and have them come up
with a variety of dates (e.g. going to the movies,
an amusement park, for dancing, or dinner)

19. LATE NIGHT WAFFLES
8

20. Let’s face it, students are always hungry!
Especially during those late night studying
sessions

21. ADULT SPELLING BEE
9

22. Adult spelling bees are often team competitions,
so start off by having your participants form
teams

23. OUTDOOR MOVIE
MARATHON
10

24. For this fundraising idea, take into account the
expected weather, sunset times, other events
taking place at the campus or in the local
community

25. WATERMELON EATING
CONTEST
11

26. However, you will need to purchase enough
watermelon! Even better, contact a local business
and have watermelons donated to your fundraiser

27. TWISTER TOURNAMENT
12

28. Encourage individual and teams to register. One
team can consist of four players

29. BATTLE OF THE COLLEGE
BANDS
13

30. Raise money for your sorority or fraternity by
charging an entry fee to the battle of the bands

31. SERVICE AUCTION
14

32. Essentially, you are raising money by offering the
skills and services of your brothers and sisters to
the highest bidder

33. NO TALENT CONTEST
15

34. Organize a talent contest where the contestants
purposefully perform badly (e.g.: singing out of
tune for an entire song, failed magic tricks, out of
sync dancing, etc)

35. Hopefully, this helped get your creative
juices flowing. Now it’s time for you to
START FUNDRAISING
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