Do you run a dance studio and you want to raise money for it but lack ideas? If YES, here are 50 practical ways to raise fund for dance studios.
There are many reasons why an organization may want to raise funds and when the reasons for raising the funds is towards the benefits of the larger community, it makes it easier for people in the community to rally round the organization to contribute their own quota no matter how little it is.
Fundraising can provide you with additional funds that can go a long way to augment what your group or organization does and provide new opportunities for your members. It can also benefit your community or an individual in your community that needs financial assistance.
Besides the money, there are plenty of other reasons your group should fundraise. If you run a dance studio and you are looking towards generating funds for the organization via fundraising, here are 50 fundraising ideas you can leverage on;
50 Practical Ways to Raise Fund for Dance Studios
1. Organize a Dancing Tournament
Organizing a dancing tournament is one of the easiest ideas you can leverage on to raise funds for your dance studio. Dance is ingrained into the heart of people. As a fundraising idea, coordinating a dancing tournament will take a bit of work but the outcome can be great.
It is a fun day for all involved, pulls together a large community of people, and can raise some great money for your cause. You will have to get a reasonable prize award for the winning team or individual.
2. Organize Alumni Networking Luncheon
If you belong to some association even if it is not dance related association or network, you can organize an alumni networking luncheon to raise money for your organization. Bringing together a group of alumni for a dinner or luncheon gives you the opportunity to ask for donations especially if you have a project that they can easily buy into.
Your ability to reach out to loads of people who are in your network will go a long way to determine the amount of money you can raise.
3. Organize Annual Collection Event
Annual collection event is like a piggy bank approach of raising money. You can either do it on an individual, family, or community basis. Just ensure you devote a donation box, and keep making donations every now and then when you come across an unspent pence or a cent in your pocket.
4. Organize Matching Gift
With this idea, all you have to do is to ask a corporation or an individual to match any donations your organization collects in a specified amount of time. Then, you go ahead to contact potential donors about giving to match the gift as listed.
5. Anniversary or Birthday Pledge
If you usually receive gifts from your family and friends during your birthday or anniversary, all you need to do if you want to raise funds for your dance studio is to ask for donations to a favorite cause instead of birthday gifts or anniversary gifts.
You will be amazed at how much you can raise from this idea especially if you have rich people or organizations in your network who usually give you gifts during your birthday or anniversary.
6. Organize Who’s Got Talent Show
Another fundraising idea you can try if you are looking towards raising money for your dance studio is to organize who’s got talent show targeted around dancing and related event. You can seek sponsorship and also collect entry fee for each act and sell tickets.
7. Give it Up
Give it up is yet another fundraising idea that is suitable for a dance studio. All you need to do in this regard is to appeal to sponsors commit to give up a regular activity for a month and donate the money they save to the designated cause you are pursuing.
8. Organize Capital Campaign
With capital campaign, you are expected to set a goal, make the direct ask from people who you know can afford to give to your cause by appealing to their goodwill. With this idea you will be able to avoid an endless slew of small fundraisers.
9. Social Media Call
With social media, you can do a lot and interestingly, you can leverage in social media to fundraise for your dance studio. All you need to do is to inform potential donors about your fundraising needs and what you want to use the funds generated to do and you can do this through Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter et al.
10. Sell Dance Related Items
Another fundraising idea that you can adopt if you are looking towards raising funds for your dance studio is to sell dance related items to the general public. Please note that you are not going to be selling at the regular price but at a premium price with the aim to get much more than your cost price of the items being sold. You can also collect new and gently used items from your volunteers and resell them in gift baskets at a holiday shop.
11. Dance Teams’ Dance for Charity
Calling on dance team to dance for charity in your dance studio. This is one of the most fun and popular ideas. Not only does it raise funds in an interesting way, but it also gives a chance for local dancers to present their talent to the public.
Since so many groups of people are involved, it is easy to get more sponsorship. All you need to do is make arrangements for venue and logistics. And you are good to go. The tickets, along with donations will fetch you enough funds.
12. Consignment Garage Sales
Another idea you can leverage on if you are looking towards fundraising for your dance studio is to organize consignment garage sales. Well, if you can gather enough sellable used items from your house, dance studio or from your neighbors’, you can do some good charity fundraising by putting them on a sale. You could invite other people to set up a stall at a minimal charge in the space you organizing your buy and sell.
13. Organize Buddy Night in Your Dance Studio
Buddy nights are great ways to fundraise for your dance studio most especially if you are part of a dance club or group. Teammates bring along a friend to a fun-oriented dancing session, who pay a small fee to take part. The double bonus is that if your buddies are impressed, you might get some additional members wanting to join your dance club.
14. Street Performance
Leveraging on street dance performance is yet another pretty great idea that you can leverage on to raise funds for your dance studio. All you need to do is to ensure that you have a talented dance team that can easily entertain the public. Please note that you’ll need to find a well populated area (and make sure you have a license if needed), make a sign, and start fundraising.
15. Organize Community Charity Car Wash
If your business is in and around a residential estate, then one of the ways you can fundraise for your dance studio is to organize community charity car wash and then ask the car owners to contribute to the cause you are pursuing. Just ensure that you create the needed awareness and go about with a clearly designed and printed banners that states what you and your team members are up and about.
16. Organize Charity Movie Night
All you need to do in this regard is to look for a location, get a projector, and have a movie night! With this idea, you can easily raise funds via asking for entry donations and selling movie snacks; popcorn, sweets and drinks. Please note that you would have told them beforehand that you are raising money for your dance studio.
17. Design and Sell Your Company’s Customized Wrist Bands
Another workable and easy to implement fundraising idea for a dance studio is to design and sell your organization’s customized wrist bands to the general public. Interestingly, colorful wristbands that have people’s names on them are a fun and interesting way to collect funds. The best part is that these also create awareness about your cause. You can buy these at local stores for a pretty reasonable price when you buy wholesale.
18. Partner with Telecommunication Companies
Another fundraising idea that you can leverage on to raise money for your dance studio is to partner with telecommunication companies to raise money via text messages. With this idea, you will be able to make use of a service that allows your organization to receive donations of $5-10 by text messages.
19. Use of Scratch Cards
With Scratch Cards, your donors will receive a sheet of coupons for a small donation of a few dollars. But you should be able to convince them that the monies generated will be used for a worthy cause.
20. Organize Dancing Lesson
Organizing dancing lessons in your dance studio with the sole aim of raising money is yet another way of raising funds for your dance studio. You can target your family members or friends who aren’t good with dancing. Rope them in for instructing, sell some tickets, and let the learners mingle with the dancers. You can also charge a registration or a lesson free from the learners.
21. Organize Easter Egg Delivery Fundraiser
Another means of raising money for your dance studio is to organize Easter egg delivery fundraiser event. If you wish to do something novel, something more than just painting Easter eggs, you can take orders for painting the ones filled with sweets to be delivered at clients’ doorsteps for an Easter morning surprise for their children. It doesn’t take much more effort than painting, but does fetch more donations.
22. Organize Extreme Fundraising Dance Events
Trust me, as a dance studio owner, there some extreme dance styles that can catch the attention of the average person in your community.
All you need to do if you are looking towards raising funds for your dance studio is to organize extreme fundraising dance events. You should look towards bringing in dancers who can easily pull dance related stunts. There is quite a lot of choice – although this may come down to what you can do near you. Have a look online and start fundraising.
23. Give Away the Best Seat in the House
If you are looking towards organizing a dancing competition in your dance studio all you need to do is to try to get one of the local stores or to donate a comfy couch in your studio. Now put up a raffle for this, the best seat in the house. This can be a regular fundraising idea each season you have a dancing competition in your dance studio.
24. Happy Hour For Your Alumni
If you have lots of alumni from your dance school or studio and people that you are in good terms with, then you can send out invitations for a happy hour to them with the intention to raise funds for your dance studio. Make sure that the word is spread as far and wide as possible.
Since the pub that you choose as the venue is going to see tremendous sales for the chosen evening, ask them for a sponsorship. If the gathering is small, it is a good idea to ask for donations. But, if it is a large one, tickets and a raffle is going to be lucrative.
25. Walk for a Cause
Another great idea that you can leverage on if you are looking towards raising funds for your dance studio is to leverage on walking for a cause. Interestingly, if you walk for a cause that is dear to the heart of the community you have your business in, then it will be easy for you to get sponsorship and raise funds for your dance studio.
26. Organize Community Lawn Mowing
Trust me, people will appreciate it if some group of people volunteer to mow their lawn without charging them but just asking for a donation. This type of idea is suitable if you are in a community or neighborhood that is filled with people with purchasing power. But you must make sure that you sensitize the community before embarking on this exercise or else it will backlash.
27. Organize Marathon for People in Your Community
Organizing marathon for charity or fundraising cause is a popular fundraising idea that has always delivered. Marathons for football, tennis, table tennis, badminton, or any sport that interests a lot of people can work for you. Get sponsorships from sports related sponsors, hire a place, and get ready to raise some massive funds for your dance studio.
28. Leverage on Match Giving
This idea works pretty well in the United States of America and the United Kingdom and the idea has brought in a lot of money for different charities. This is how it works, you fundraise a sum of money through another fundraising idea and you get a company to agree to match whatever sum you raise. This doubles the amount that you would have ended with. The company will get increased exposure as well as helping a great cause.
29. Organize Obstacle Course Event
Organizing an obstacle course event is yet another fundraising idea that a dance studio can leverage on to raise fund. Obstacle course event is much more interesting than a standard race. Unlike cross country or marathon, it is a race, but at the same time it is much more than that – a real test of talent and timing that is more exciting and rewarding.
Also, when looking for engagement from the public, it tends to be the case that the more special the task, the higher the willingness for participation. Selling of tickets to those who wish to see the contest will raise a lot of revenue. A bonus? The refreshments that you can sell during the event.
30. Make Use of Payroll Donation
This type of idea is suitable only if you have business relationship with a corporate organization. Trust me, fundraising within an organization is an incredible idea if you can pull it off. If you a family member or friend own a company, a store, or any business that involves employees, you can float a program that lets them donate via payroll.
As soon as their salaries are credited, the donations will be legally transferred for charity. The best part is that they do not have to pay taxes on it.
31. Volunteer a Skill
If you have a team that has skills other than dance skills, then you can easily leverage on this idea to raise money for your dance studio. The best part of this is that the work involved is varied.
Just convince workers or team members to stay one extra hour, or to come in early and teach one special skill like cooking, baking, knitting, playing guitar, dancing, or whatever talent you can find at work. Colleagues who wish to learn can pay a nominal fee each week, and that is the amount that goes for charity.
32. Community Cleaning Services
Another idea you can leverage on to raise money for your dance studio is to organize community cleaning services by encouraging your team members, friends and family members to volunteer to clean your community for free but by asking for freewill donations from residents of the community.
The truth is who doesn’t like a clean vicinity? So, get out on a cleaning spree, and clean up your local area. Just make sure that you have with your collection buckets that publicize the cause that you support. Locals, as well the passers-by, are likely to donate for such a noble gesture.
33. Organize Swap Shop
Organizing a swap shop is yet another fantastic fundraising idea for a dance studio; it is indeed a good idea for garnering donations. You can organize a swap event, in the community hall maybe, where people come and swap things that they no longer use – clothes, books, appliances – whatever you can think of. And in return people donate an amount for the cause.
34. Go The 50 – 50 Club Way
This type of fundraising idea is perhaps as old as the name fundraising; people have been using it from time immemorial. This is how it works, you get everyone to donate a pound a month. You take out a draw every month and the winner takes home half the value of the total donated amount. Interestingly, you do not need a license to organize this type of event.
35. Organize End of Year Dinner Party
Organizing end of year dinner party is a great way not only to appreciate the efforts of your team during the year, but also to motivate them with a renewed spirit. Tickets, raffles and auctions can be a part of this dinner where you exhibit the awards and accolades that the team has won during the season. Trust me, if you make it open to the general public, people will appreciate it and be willing to be part of it most especially if it is properly organized.
36. Leverage on The Unrivalled Raffle
Another fantastic idea you can leverage on to raise funds for your dance studio is the unrivalled raffle approach. All you need to do in this regard is to sell raffle tickets to people in and around your community with the hope that they are going to win gifts that will be far more that the money they spent purchasing the raffle draw ticket.
Please note this idea more not be permitted in your city of you do not have the necessary permits which is why we will advise you to visit your local community office to make the necessary enquiries before going out to sell raffle draw tickets.
37. Mystery Box Raffle
Mystery box raffle is yet another interesting fundraising idea that a dance studio can leverage in to raise fund. All you need to do is to put together a mystery box of goods and then sell tickets to the general public especially to those who are interested in winning the mystery box. When you are done selling the tickets, then a raffle draw will be conducted and it is going to be a Winner takes all affair.
38. Services Auction
Service auction is no doubt an easy fundraising idea that a dance studio can easily implement. This is how it works, you are going to partner with local businesses that will be willing to offer an in-kind donation of their services. What you would need to do is to auction off their services and the businesses get free advertising, and you raise money for your charity.
39. Organize Community BBQ
Organizing a community BBQ event is yet another means of raising funds for your dance studio. Besides, it is a great way to engage a community by organizing a low-brow event where you grill hot dogs and hamburgers for charity. Just make sure to include veggie burgers as a healthy option.
40. Organize a Dance Marathon Tournament
Another workable fundraising event that you can leverage on to raise money for your dance studio is to organize a dance marathon tournament and you sell tickets to the audience and those who want to participate in the tournament. This is how it works, whichever pair lasts the longest on the dance floor can claim a cash prize or a gift prize.
41. Can and Bottle Drive Campaign
This is how this idea works, encourage students in your community to collect as many used cans and bottles they can find. The student who collects the most wins a prize, and everything they collect can be turned in to a recycling center for funds – plus it helps keep parks and streets clean.
42. Door-to-door for Change
This is how this idea works, encourage your workers, team members and volunteers go door to door collecting loose change. Great as a contest to see who can collect the most. If you have kids as part of your volunteers, please make sure they go in groups of two or more, for safety.
43. Organize Breakfast Networking
Another idea you would need when it comes to raising funds for your dance studio is to organize a breakfast fundraiser and invite all your donors and other local businesses. It’s a great way to get everyone to network. You can host a raffle to raise additional funds, and charge per plate.
44. Event Services Fundraising
This is how this idea works, when you organize an events, even if it is a paid event in your dance studio, you are expected to encourage your volunteers to provide different services at your event, like valet parking, bartending, and serving and all the tips collected at the event will go towards your charity cause.
45. Have Lunch with a Celebrity
If you have connection with a celebrity in your city especially dance celebrity, then all that you would need to do is to invite the celebrity to a lunch and then sell raffle tickets to people in the community and the winner wins a lunch with the celebrity.
Please note that even though you are not going to be paying the celebrity, but you must ensure that you inform the celebrity of your intention to raise money with his presence. Although some of them might want to charge appearance fee.
46. Themed Gift Basket Auction
Another fantastic fundraising idea that you can leverage on to raise money for your dance studio is to leverage on the themed gift basket auction approach. This is how it works, you will put together themed gift baskets to auction to the general public, the themed gift basket can be dance related, Halloween, Christmas or any related theme that can attract people in your community.
47. Organize Jail and Bail
If you are good at organizing events that usually attract loads of people, then one of the options you can leverage on to generate funds for your dance studio is to leverage on the jail and bail approach. This is how it works, people at your event will pay some money to put someone in “jail”. People in jail have to pay or raise funds on your crowdfunding website to be bailed out.
48. Donor Wall Recognition
Another fantastic fundraising idea suitable for a dance studio is the donor wall recognition approach. Trust me, donor recognition walls are an important tool for nonprofit organizations to thank their donors and inspire visitors. These walls also give organizations the chance to tell their stories.
49. Engage in Advocacy Campaign
Despite the fact that advocacy is not in principle a fundraising idea, but that does not rule out the fact that raising awareness and funds go hand-in-hand. No matter how you’re raising funds, it’s important to share your cause if you want to raise money. Plus, by creating advocacy opportunities that addresses a cause in your community, you’re providing your donors with other ways to support your nonprofit.
50. Silent Auction
Lastly, another suitable fundraising idea that a dance studio can adopt is the silent auction. Silent auction is a type of charity auction that does not require an auctioneer. As matter of fact, all the bids are made on bid sheets or via mobile phones. Silent auctions can be the most ideal type of auction for nonprofits because there are no overt displays of wealth. Donors can place their bids at their own discretion.