Fundraising ideas
Here are some great ways to fundraise to help get you started!
Mini M&M'S® Tubes
Individual Mini M&M’s tubes are sold at FMSC sites and meal-packing events around the United States. Enjoy the candy, then return the tubes filled with quarters. Each filled M&M’s tube fits 56 quarters ($14 donation) and funds 48 MannaPack™ meals! (Buy Mini M&M's at FMSC locations or online at fmscMarketPlace.org.)
Mini M&M'S® Tubes
Individual Mini M&M’s tubes are sold at FMSC sites and meal-packing events around the United States. Enjoy the candy, then return the tubes filled with quarters. Each filled M&M’s tube fits 56 quarters ($14 donation) and funds 48 MannaPack™ meals! (Buy Mini M&M's at FMSC locations or online at fmscMarketPlace.org.)
Coin Boxes
Put a coin box in a common area of your home (example: laundry room), church (example: fellowship hall) or business (example: lunch area). Suggest a donation equal to the cost of a fast food meal or a movie ticket.
Coin Boxes
Put a coin box in a common area of your home (example: laundry room), church (example: fellowship hall) or business (example: lunch area). Suggest a donation equal to the cost of a fast food meal or a movie ticket.
Bake Sale
Invest in baking supplies and raise money by selling baked goods such as cookies and brownies.
Bake Sale
Invest in baking supplies and raise money by selling baked goods such as cookies and brownies.
Hunger Jar
Ask your church, class, club, office or any organization you’re involved in or connected with to take up a donation for FMSC. Provide them with a jar and call it a “Hunger Jar!”
Hunger Jar
Ask your church, class, club, office or any organization you’re involved in or connected with to take up a donation for FMSC. Provide them with a jar and call it a “Hunger Jar!”
FMSC Shirts
Buy Feed My Starving Children shirts ($20-30) to wear during the packing event. (Buy them at FMSC locations or online at fmscMarketPlace.org.)
FMSC Shirts
Buy Feed My Starving Children shirts ($20-30) to wear during the packing event. (Buy them at FMSC locations or online at fmscMarketPlace.org.)
Involve Local Businesses
Ask the businesses in your community to sponsor a certain number of meals. Invite them to pack those meals.
Involve Local Businesses
Ask the businesses in your community to sponsor a certain number of meals. Invite them to pack those meals.
Keep the Change
For the next few weeks, pay for everything you can in cash. Keep the change in a jar. Watch it add up quickly! When you reach your goal, bring the coins to FMSC or exchange the coins for cash at your local bank.
Keep the Change
For the next few weeks, pay for everything you can in cash. Keep the change in a jar. Watch it add up quickly! When you reach your goal, bring the coins to FMSC or exchange the coins for cash at your local bank.
Sponsorships
Ask friends, family, classmates and coworkers to sponsor your packing session with a meals-packed-per-hour donation.
Sponsorships
Ask friends, family, classmates and coworkers to sponsor your packing session with a meals-packed-per-hour donation.
Envelope Fundraiser
Number envelopes from 1-100. Encourage participants to pick a random numbered envelope. The envelope number they pick is the amount of donation that they give. This works well in church settings, and is an easy way to raise $5,000!
Envelope Fundraiser
Number envelopes from 1-100. Encourage participants to pick a random numbered envelope. The envelope number they pick is the amount of donation that they give. This works well in church settings, and is an easy way to raise $5,000!
Live Auction
Purchase a popular new item (iPad, etc.) and auction it off. For example, this could be done in a classroom or youth group setting.
Live Auction
Purchase a popular new item (iPad, etc.) and auction it off. For example, this could be done in a classroom or youth group setting.
Simple Supper
To gain a better understanding of what a meal is like for many hungry families around the world, serve your family only potatoes or rice for dinner one night. Put the money you saved on that meal toward your donation.
Simple Supper
To gain a better understanding of what a meal is like for many hungry families around the world, serve your family only potatoes or rice for dinner one night. Put the money you saved on that meal toward your donation.
Skip the Soda
When you eat out, drink water instead of soda. Put the money you would have spent on soda in your “donation jar.”
Skip the Soda
When you eat out, drink water instead of soda. Put the money you would have spent on soda in your “donation jar.”
"For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability..."
