Julia Peterson, winner of the CHIC 200 Battle of the Bands contest, has graciously permitted us to release a few tracks from her Summer Spent CD. Our first release is Love Song.
Download a handy CHIC Fact Sheet in two different formats: letter-sized (76KB PDF File) or half-letter sized (96KB PDF File) where you can find the most important details about CHIC 2009 at a glance. Adobe Reader is a free download.
We’ve collected quite a variety of fundraising suggestions over the years, so if you’re tired of doing the same thing year after year, perhaps this list will inspire you to try something new. Don’t forget to check the comment section for extra ideas, where you can also add your own ideas.
Free Car Wash-Students get pledges for how many cars they can wash in so many hours.Clean houses
“Work Day To Beautify Community” for donations from the community
Partnership Days—Match up a student(s) with people to serve / to work for a donation
Phone book deliveries
Dinners
After church brunch
All Saints Day flower sales and dinner after church
Cafe night
Dinner in concordance with church meetings
Dinner theater: Friday, Saturday, Sunday matinees (Ask for a free will offering)
Event banquets/breakfasts/ dinners
Pancake breakfast
Potato or salad bars
Spaghetti feed
Basket lunch—find church attendees to sponsor students through prayer and/or a monetary amount, then thank them with a creative lunch basket.
Sweetheart banquet
Put on dinners at people’s homes for a fee (Provide entertainment)
Donations
Change drop
Free will offering
Loose change offering
Pledges from the congregation
Pop machine (or soda machine if you insist!)
Scholarships
Slushie machine
Sponsor-A-Student
Invest in students and become a stockholder in CHIC stock
Events
Benefit concerts/music/speakers
Drive-in movie
Golf tournament
Talent show
Deliver flowers for florists on Mother’s Day
Recycling
Bottle drive
Aluminum can drive
Paper drive
Sales
Bake sale
Christmas decorations
Christmas trees
Cinnamon rolls
Concessions at a local university
Craft sale
Donuts
Community yard sale
Sell coupon books
Sell flowers and plants from greenhouses (poinsettias and lilies)
Fruit
Candy
T-shirts
Superbowl Soup Sale
Superbowl Sub Sale: “First and A Foot to Go”—people place orders and the youth group makes and delivers them to homes during the game.
Miscellaneous
Have older adults in the church participate in “Adopt-A-Grandchild” (i.e. a youth group student) for prayer and financial support.
Incentives—raise a certain amount and the pastor or youth pastor will (fill in the blank).
Flamingo Insurance—sell flamingo insurance to church members in various amounts which guarantee that their homes will not be the flocking ground for pink flamingo lawn ornaments. Place as many lawn ornaments as you can on uninsured lawns, and charge a service fee for their removal. To add even more fun, one member can hire a flamingo hit on another member by paying more than what that person bought their insurance for. Provide the opportunity for the insured to increase their insurance amount.
Students write an adult sponsor a letter before and during CHIC with prayer requests, then when they come home have dinner with the sponsor.
Support letters
Monthly payments—start early and have families contribute monthly to the CHIC fund.
