Raising money to support your drama club can be fun because you’ll have a whole pool of talented and creative individuals who can serve as volunteers to help make the campaign successful.
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Drama Club Fundraising & Ideas
Raising money to support your drama club can be fun because you’ll have a whole pool of talented and creative individuals who can serve as volunteers to help make the campaign successful.
Some of the ideas described below will allow your drama club members to showcase their talents and gain helpful experience maximizing their creativity and performing skills. At any rate, it will undoubtedly be fun for everyone, and when it’s all over, you’ll have some serious money to help support the future activities of your club.
Here are some of the most fun and exciting ideas for fundraising for your drama club.
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Encourage local advertising
One tried and tested fundraising method for your drama club would be to approach local businesses that might want to advertise their products or promote their companies through your drama club show programs. You could have these businesses log on to Classful.com to make payments or contribute company-made products, which you could then auction off or hold a raffle for. This is a great way to get community involvement in your fundraising effort. It will also benefit local businesses because they’ll be exposed to potential customers.
Singing birthday cards
This fundraising idea always provides plenty of opportunities for participants to enjoy themselves and have lots of fun while earning money for the drama club. It works like this: your drama club members hire themselves to sing birthday greetings in the same way a singing telegram would be presented. You can operate solo or in groups that accept singing gigs.
Depending on the timing of your campaign, this can be highly successful, for instance, if you do it at holiday time, around Mother’s Day, or on some other special event day, which might call for some singing presentation. The recipient always appreciates it, and it’s lots of fun for the singers.
Stage your show
With all the talent you have from your drama club members, it’s natural to stage your show as part of a fundraising campaign. You can be as elaborate as you want with this production, and if you get everyone in your club involved, you’ll have all kinds of options for choosing a play, a musical, or possibly even a dance show. You might even want to convert a traditional plate into a musical if you have some talented songwriters and composers. You will need a venue to stage your show, so you may want to contact the school about that, and if that doesn’t work, you might be able to secure a local church for a specific day to stage your show.
Be sure to do lots of marketing to get the word out about your performance, and the admission fee you charge will be your fundraising money. You could double your fundraising efforts by selling memorabilia or refreshments at your show and possibly even posters signed by your drama club members.
Danceathon
A danceathon is another idea that is great fun for everyone involved. It’s best to do your fundraising before the event, although you can collect donations during the activity. Try to get local businesses involved because it will benefit them from additional exposure in the community. You’ll probably want to work with a catering company to provide refreshments throughout the event and provide breaks for participants so they can catch their breath and grab a snack.
At the end of the event, you’ll have some pretty tired participants, but you will probably also have a fair amount of fundraising money. Individual participants can be sponsored by anyone in the community or multiple individuals, and the longer a specific dancer keeps dancing, the more funds they will learn.
Talent show
An activity tailor-made for a drama club is to hold a talent show because this is a great way to highlight all your group members’ skills and talent. Most drama clubs have a full range of talents that can be used because there’s always a diverse pool of members in these organizations, so there’s always untapped talent waiting to emerge. Every participant will be charged a fee and an admission charge for the audience viewing the show.
The great thing about holding a talent show is that it’s a free-form event so that whatever talent a person has can be freely demonstrated most comfortably for them and most compatible with the overall format of the show. This may even allow you to discover talents previously hidden among your drama club members. At any rate, it will be fun for everyone, the entire audience will enjoy the experience, and you’ll end up with a successful fundraising campaign.
Collaborate with Classful.com
To make your drama club fundraiser more successful, you can collaborate with Classful.com. This organization is specially geared toward helping fundraising groups achieve their goals. Classful.com will provide an online platform where donors can contribute and check on the campaign’s progress. They will also be able to see any messages issued by the organizers which might be pertinent to their particular fundraising activity.
The organizers will have a dedicated Dashboard from which they can monitor the progress of the campaign and from which they can communicate to donors as well as potential contributors. Reports can be generated from this dashboard so that everyone in your group can access the information and see how well the campaign is going. All funds contributed are paid out nightly and again at the end of the campaign so that your drama club group can get immediate returns from their efforts.
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