by Letty Scanlon (Phi Tau), Administrative Coordinator
1. Having an event at a restaurant is great because everyone has to eat!
Reach out to the restaurants near your campus and see what they offer! Pick a night and promote it on social media and throughout the campus.
2. Catalog Sales: Everyone loves candles, popcorn, pizza, and cookies!
There are a variety of companies that will give you 30%- 50% back! More companies now give you a feature to just share a link so that Aunt Suzi in California can purchase too!
3. Host a good old fashion night of bowling.
Most bowling alleys LOVE to hold events and allow you to determine how much you want to charge per lane
4. Did I mention everyone has to eat?
Bake sales are the perfect cure for those sweet tooths. The night before the event, have a sisterhood event with your sisters filled with baking and decorating! Make sure you get clearance with your campus on where you are allowed to set up a table.
5. Partner up with another organization and hold a pie in the face contest.
See if you can get a faculty member to participate and charge more to pie them.
6. Raffles off baskets after an event.
Reach out to the other Greeks on campus, your school, and local business for donations. Get crafty and have fun with the themes!
7. Last but not least, JUST ASK!
Tabling with coin jars during lunch is the fastest way! Get crafty with mason jars and have a few sisters walk table to table asking if they have anything to donate towards the cause. You will be surprise how many people don’t like to carry change and change can add up quickly!
Remember that college students value every last DIME in their pocket and although they may have extra funds to spare, they may prefer to use it for their own purposes. The key to convincing them to donate is to make the cause relative to them or fun and entertaining.
DPhEED 
