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FUN CAMPAIGN IDEAS
Below is a compilation of exciting, effective, and low-cost ideas that you can use during your employee campaign to raise extra dollars and have extra fun learning about our community.
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Themes:
The Best Way to Help the Most People
- Join the Winning Team
- Be a Winner . . . Give to United Way
- Be a Part of the Winning Team . . . Give to United Way
- Make Our Community a Winner . . . Give to United Way
- Working Together We Make a Winning Team
- Help United Way Win in Our Community
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Incentives:
- Time Off From Work
- Casual Day
- Reserved/Covered Parking
- Tickets to Games/Movies
- Grocery Certificates
- Company T-Shirts
- Dinner for Two
- Hotel Getaways
- Gift Certificates
- Flowers Each Month for a Year
- “Sleep-in” Passes
- “Leave Work Early” passes
- Airline Tickets
- Trophy for Department with Highest Participation
- Extra Half Hour for Lunch for a Week
How Should I Use Incentives?
The number of ways an incentive can be used is limitless. The important thing is to use incentives as a tool to increase participation or increase the average gift of your employees. What works in one company may not work in another, so do whatever works for you.
Strategies to Increase Participation
- Hold a drawing at the end of each employee meeting for all who turn in a pledge card.
- Give everyone who turns in a pledge card a ticket. When the campaign is complete, have a drawing for incentives.
- If you make the company goal, throw a party.
- Hold a drawing for all employees who go on a tour of a United Way agency.
Strategies to Increase the Average Gift
- Give the employees extra time off for increasing their gift by 10%.
- Hold a leadership giving campaign.
- Establish a company leadership level and recognize accordingly.
- Use “What Your Dollars Can Do” information.
- Stress the ease of payroll deduction.
- Ask employees to give $1 more a week.
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Events:
Food:
Activities:
- Extra vacation day raffle
- Western theme day
- Jail and Bail
- Beach Party
- Carnival
- Dunk tank
- Casino night
- Flea market / white elephant sale
- Garage sale
- Walk/run-a-thon, with employees pledging per mile
- Food drive, clothing drive
- Carnation or flower sale
- Car wash
- Silent auction with items donated by management, employees or vendors, such as: use of parking spaces, refinishing furniture, tax prep, golf lessons, free condo use, holiday cookies, leaf raking, gourmet dinner
- Joke book - employees submit their favorite jokes
Casual Dress Days:
- Jeans day
- Hawaiian shirt day
- Sweatshirt day / dress down day
- Crazy hat day
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Contests:
- Spelling bee pitting employees against management
- Balloon bust: executives sit on balloons to burst in least amount of time
- Guess the height and weight of the "Heavy Weights" - employees guess the combined height and weight of management staff or specific departments
- Watermelon seed spitting contest
- Basketball shooting contest
- Cribbage / 500 tournament held over noon hours
- Mystery hunt with clues sent via email, leading hunters to an agency or co-worker who is connected to an agency
- Yo-Yo contest
- Miniature golf tournament throughout the building
- Bubble gum blowing contest
- Children's drawing/coloring contest
- Baby photo contest. grade school photo contest
- Pie throwing contest: pies (whipped cream on paper plates) are thrown at management staff as they place face in opening of cardboard screen
- Tricycle race
- Goofy Olympics or triathlon, canoeing with one paddle, three legged race, etc.
- Paper airplane toss
- Lip sync contest / air guitar contest
- Turtle derby
- Softball/Volleyball Tournament
- Golf Tournament
- Halloween Costume Contest
- Campaign Slogan/Theme Contest
- Voice Mail/e-mail Quiz
- Cubicle Decorating Contest
- United Way trivia contest
- Male beauty contest
- Ugly tie/ugly earring contest
- Funniest home videos
- Departmental Penny Wars
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