Fundraising Ideas for Teams
Whether you’re a band, cheerleading team, football team, baseball team, basketball team, soccer team, Phoneraiser can help with your fundraising goals!!
- Determine the use of the funds
- Trips
- Uniforms
- Equipment
- Field repair
- Trophies
- Coach recognition awards
- Be sure to include the below environmental statistics in all communications
- One cell phone can contaminate 35,000 gallons of water (enough to provide water for 153 people for one year)
- Cell phones and their batteries contain eight toxic substances, including arsenic, lead and mercury
- We’ve already retired more than 500 million cell phones alone
- Each month, an additional ten million cell phones are retired
- Almost all inkjet cartridges can be recycled
- Determine how much money your team wants to raise
- Average cell phone will generate $3.00
- PDA’s average $10 each
- Inkjet cartridges average $0.50 each
- Have a collection box at each game
- Announce on the loud speaker that you can bring cell phones down at half time at every game.
- Have each team member’s family Facebook/email all friends and family to contribute their used cell phones to the team’s fundraiser
- Contact local businesses
- Ask them to set up collection boxes in their stores for your fundraiser
- If your students go to others schools where they may serve as mentors, ask the students to collect phones on their behalf for the team
- Use cell phone collection to get free admission to an event (i.e. bring a cell phone to Fall Festival to get in free)
- Put outdoor signage asking people to bring in their used cell phones
- Put an article in your local newspaper, community enewsletters/correspondence about your fundraiser
- Pick a collection/shipping lead who:
- Secures mailing labels and sufficient shipping box
- Is sure to tape boxes securely for safe shipping
- Review the Smart Shipping segment on the website
- Ship when you have collected at least 20 cell phones/PDA’s and inkjet cartridges.
NOTE: The average household has 3-5 used cell phones in drawers. Be sure to ask your neighbors on both sides to triple your household’s contribution to the recycling/fundraising effort!
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