Northwestern University Dance Marathon brings to you creative fundraising ideas!
NUDM Creative Fundraisers
Meet Phoebe! Phoebe is a first-year dancer who is selling hand-made scrunchies using recycled fabric to fundraise for NUDM. The scrunchies come in a variety of colors and patterns and she has been advertising to her followers on social media. Keep up the great work, Phoebe!
Meet Jessie! Jessie and her friend hosted a Facebook event where they sold food for NUDM. Jessie chose two unique products, banana bread and scallion pancakes, and delivered the delicious food to her friends. The event was very successful and raised over $300 in one day! Way to go, Jessie! Meet Monisha and Jason! In January, they created a Facebook event for their pop-up restaurant in Kresge that hosted over 60 patrons during the 3 nights that they were open. After planning the menu, advertising, grocery shopping, and cooking, Monisha and Jason raised $727! All of the proceeds went to NUDM. They want to inspire other individual dancers with their creativity. Amazing job, Monisha and Jason!
Meet Cate! Cate creatively fundraised by placing a group order for Sweetgreen downtown and bringing the salads back to Evanston. Over 45 people got delicious salads! She charged a donation/delivery fee per salad to go towards NUDM. Awesome job, Cate!
Meet first-year Annie Bandler, who decided to take venmo challenges to the next level in order to fundraise for NUDM and reward her generous donors. Annie created a list of different prizes/offers for her friends and family to receive when they donated a specific amount to her fundraising page. Her offers ranged from $1 hugs to cookie deliveries and custom tiktoks. So far she has raised over $100! Great job Annie!
Meet Julia Mencher, a first-year on NUDM’s Marketing and Media committee! Julia put her talent and love for drawing to work to create a unique fundraiser: Doodles for Dance Marathon. Julia posted an ad offering personalized doodles on social media and provided different pricing options for her friends and family to choose from. In only 2 days Julia fundraised over 100 dollars, and made some incredible designs for her donors! Check out her ad and samples above. Keep up the amazing work Julia!
Meet Daniel Abia! For NUDM 2019, DAE Co-Chair Daniel created Daniel’s Dancing Dollars. He made a seven-minute dancing video comprised of dance moves requested by donors. Friends and family venmoed per dance move. A work of art was created and Daniel fundraised a lot. Keep dancing, Daniel! For full video, check out this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKtw-QR_PxsJtYgTJUvMWzTutBT4QZm3/view
Meet Rachel and Hannah! They made their famous matzo ball soup recipe and sold it to students on campus for $5 dollar delivery or pick up! They sold containers of soup for $10 and made over $230! Now that’s some yummy creativity.
Meet Alec! Alec bought mini fridges from students who were moving out and sold them to other people outside of Northwestern. He bought them for 10 dollars and sold for about 50. He made over $100 dollars!
Meet Reilly! Reilly asked her followers on Instagram to donate $5, and in return she would recreate and post any TIk Tok of their choice. She has made $50 so far but can continue this until the weekend of. Go Reilly!
Meet Sanji! Sanji was brave to offer to do the ghost pepper challenge for NUDM donations if she reached $400 by Giving Tuesday. Then, she took it a step further…. if she raised $600 by then, a friend would join in on the challenge, and then another friend said she’d join as well if Sanji got to $800. It was a huge success. Great job all!
Meet Eliana! Eliana pledged to dye her hair blue if friends, family, and others in her network donated to her NUDM 2019 fundraising efforts. Through posting on Facebook and Instagram polls requesting to Venmo request her followers, Eliana raised $175 in just one week… plus the hair looked awesome. Great work, Eliana!
Meet Alana! Alana offered to clean student houses and apartments off campus in return for NUDM donations. She made close to $200 dollars. She offered different rates for different services including wiping down surfaces, organizing dishes, and more. You rock Alana!
