Chapter Fundraising Activities

Events

On-air Literacy Benefit
Sponsor a benefit in cooperation with your university radio station, featuring local bands and musicians.
Dinner Theater for Scholarship Fund
Scrabble-a-Thon
Pie-throwing Booth
Sell Food
Lit Wit Jeopardy
Literary teams of professors battle to win the trophy. Categories may include Beauty/Beasts, Off The Map, Medieval Moments, Historical Literature, Author! Author!, Cradle to Grave, Ambush, and The Bible. Wear costume of one's favorite literary character. Literary questions posed by students to faculty panel. Tickets = $3. Entertaining, enlightening, lively, and hilarious fun. Concessions sold.
50/50 or basket raffle

Haunted House
Base each room on a different tale of terror.
Valentine's Day Message in a Bottle
Sell bottles, plastic hearts, etc. filled with candy and a poem.
Sell 3-minute Dates on Valentine's Day
Make and Sell Masks During Mardi Gras
Valentines Day Candy & Poem Sales

Grade-a-thon
Get sponsors to pledge a certain amount for each A and B a member receives. If each member gets enough pledges (and good grades!) your chapter can raise quite a bit of money.
Writing Contests
Charge a submission fee and offer a prize, such as a faculty parking permit.
Proofreading Service

Run a Better World Books Book Drive. Better World Books will partner with every chapter to host an �on campus� book drive to benefit one a nonprofit global literacy partners.
Bookstores
Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other stores often have programs to help you with fundraising. Generally, you set up an informational table of some sort (maybe a poetry reading) and your organization gets a percentage of the store's sales that day.
Jewel Shop & Share
Jewel grocery stores have a program where an organization can get a percentage of sales during a three-day period. The organization has slips to hand out - on the designated days, a percentage of all sales made with the slips is donated to the organization. Check your local grocery chains to see if they have similar programs.
Coupon Sales
Purchase coupons from a local business, then resell them at a profit.
Joint Book Sales
Pair up with a local library and take advantage of the larger crowds.
On-campus Refreshments
Sell refreshments during events, such as theater productions and spring fairs.
Receipt Collections
Collect receipts from a local grocery store and turn them in for cash.

Celebrity and Local Business Auction
Book Plates
Design and make custom book plates in several genres and styles.
December Poinsettias
Taco Bueno Night
Valentine's Day Poetry Booklets
Sell poems written by chapter members.
T-shirts
Have shirts made with such dressings as "Top 10 Reasons to be a BU English Major" or "Shakespearean Insults."
Calendars of Quotes
Use quotes from English professors.
Sock Monkeys
Sew and sell them at the STD Convention.
CD Sale
CD titled "Chapter One," created by the Songs Inspired By Literature project.
Breakfast Goodies
A nice departure from the typical bake sale.
Literary Recipes
Collect, type and organize recipes for a cookbook, giving literary titles to many of the recipes.
Office Slave for a Day for faculty and staff members.
Hire out to do household chores for faculty and staff.
Popular chores include yard work, car washing and snow shoveling.
Easter Eggs
Boxer Shorts
Rummage Sale
Flowers
Flowers are often good sellers around Valentine's Day and at theatrical productions.
Banned Book Raffle
Basket of Books Raffle
Bake Sale At The Dorms
Go Green by collecting soda cans, electronic equipment or toner cartridges.