How does a kid raise money for their charity?

First, I'd like to say how wonderful it is that you are raising money for cystic fibrosis. I've learned about this horrid disease in Science class because my teacher has close friends to her who has CF. Secondly, eBay auctions are a good way to raise money. Try to sell things too! You have to spend money to make money, right? Try to find a way to make something like bracelets or necklaces and stuff like that and sell them for $10 dollars a piece. All the proceeds can go to the CFF. When doing this, try to find a very cheap way to make something and sell it. My school did this and we rack in over ten thousand dollars a year. Our proceeds go to the American Cancer Society, though. Try to talk to people in your school. You'd be surprised how many really care about this sort of thing. You can try to form an after school club where you guys can do fundraisers, bake sales and try to raise money for the cause. Having a bigger group of people to help you will do much better than just yourself. A lot of people will help because family members and friends may have CF. They'd want to do everything in their power to help. Good luck, and I'm happy to see that people are trying to make the world a better place.

One of the public schools one of my coworkers helps out at decided to do a fund raiser--they had all their parents and friends and anyone else they could rustle up to donate all the aluminum soda cans (empty of course) and the kids/school took the cans to the recycling and made something like $70,000 from it. I think they ran it about 2-3 months. We had special soda can bins here at work with a sign on it about the fund raiser so people knew that's what their empties were going toward (if they didn't want to participate, they just put their cans in the regular recycling bin). The coworker did have to collect all the cans at the end of every week and haul it over to the school. It sounded like most of the parents set up something similar at their jobs (they had to ask permission from the office politicos but if it's for a good cause that isn't bipartisan, usually companies will do it as long as they don't have to do anything), schools, etc. You should call your recycling center to see how much they are paying for empty soda cans, do some math and see how much you could make. It not only raises money but is good for the environment too. One of the execs at our office every October or so sends out a companywide email saying he's putting bottles in each kitchen to collect people's pennies and spare change--his kids' school collects spare change so they can buy Christmas presents for underprivileged kids, and if there's enough collected they donate to the local food banks too. You can make a lot of money collecting pennies no one wants and now they have those machines (I've seen one at the local Safeway grocery store) that will sort and wrap your pennies for you. And with either of those you wouldn't need any special licenses or contracts or prove that you are an official-legal charity.

1.yard sales 2. car washes 3. candy sales...sell snickers for a $1.00 etc.. 4 dinner auctions...hold a dinner and charge people $25.00 for a plate. 5.walk-a-thons. (you can get sponsors for this) also, we will donate $3.00 to your charity. we just ask that you fill out a short survey for us. copy and paste this http://www.qroacker.com/$3-for-your-charity in your browser...and follow the instructions. take care

BAKE SALE! Or how about something like Marche De L'Espoir where you get sponsors and run/walk a long distance for money?

host a car wash.

Well, I can say I am actually younger than you and have organised two school fundraisers. All you need is to be passionate enough. I am assuming from your age you are in high school, so why don't you write a proposal letter to your headmaster/principle and ask them if they will let you find a group of people to help you organise a school fundraiser? If you dont want to do this at your school, go the next step and organise a day for a primary school to participate. You should have it as a casual clothes day - Gold coin donation You could have lunch time activities - Gold coin donation to enter, and say, a movie ticket if you win? You could have an auction (silent or not) and you get the funds from that. Hope this helped - and if it did let me know how your day goes!!!!!!

First off make sure you have written permission from the tax exempt organization. Make sure all checks or payments go directly to the nonprofit and not to you. Otherwise the IRS will consider that income and you will owe taxes. Little kids cannot have charities legally. You must be 18 to register with the IRS.

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT I applaud your intentions, but you can't do this the way you have it planned. It is illegal to solicit donations without a state-issued solicitation license, and they only give those to properly constituted nonprofit corporations with IRS tax exempt status. And no, you cannot "start a charity". There is much more to it than you think, and minors can't do it anyway. When you are caught, you will be forced to return all money collected AND pay a $2500 fine AND spend a year in jail Yes, really. The reason for that is to prevent unscrupulous people from claiming to raise money "for charity". HOWEVER. There is a way to accomplish the same goal. You go to the "Get Involved" page on the CFF website. FURTHERMORE. YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHARITY. YOU HAVE A HOBBY. There's much more to this than you think. A nonprofit is a corporation, just like General Motors, or Sears, or McDonald's. You file the incorporation documents with your home state the same way. There must be an official address and place of business, by laws, a board of directors, board meetings, and minutes of those meetings. They are required to file formal reports on their financial activities with the state AND the feds. And you must be an adult to file the legal forms. Once the org incorporates, it must apply to the IRS for a tax exempt status. Those rules are under section 501(c) of the IRS code. Most charities are under (c)(3). Labor unions are under c5. There are 31 different categories. Until you do that, YOU DO NOT HAVE A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. You have a hobby. And all of the money that you raise IS TAXABLE. And you are not permitted to solicit money from the public until you have a state-issued solicitation license. Violations can result in hefty fines and even jail time. Yes, really. "Nonprofit" means that the corporation has no owner and no stock. When the corporation brings in more money than it spends, the excess is called a "fund balance", instead of a "profit". That fund balance can be re-invested in the corporation or held in savings for future projects or for lean times. The board of directors makes those decisions. "Tax exempt" status means that That means that the ORGANIZATION does not pay taxes on its income. The EMPLOYEES of the organization pay their personal taxes under the same rules as everyone else. And yes, nonprofits can and do have employees, just like McDonald's. Approximately 10% of the American work force is employed by nonprofits. Individuals who donate money to c3 orgs can deduct it from their income taxes, if they itemize. Donations to other categories - c4, c5, etc. are not deductible. There are thousands of state and federal rules governing activities, finances, and reporting. For example, c3 orgs CAN NOT endorse political candidates and there are strict limits on the lobbying that they can do. That's why labor unions can endorse candidates and churches can't. C3 and C4 orgs can be eligible for government grants for their work. They can also solicit money from charitable foundations. But then the foundations will come to their offices and tell them they're doing everything wrong and refuse to give them any money unless they change everything they do. And even then they might not give the money. I hate foundations. There are thousands of organizations already doing the work that you want to do. And they're already competing for VERY scarce dollars. Find a good one and volunteer. http://serve.gov/ Take relevant classes in high school and college. Eventually, you can get a paid job with a nonprofit. You could get a degree in nonprofit management. Look at http://www.irs.gov/charities/index.html There is more info at www.foundationcenter.org Source(s): 28 years as volunteer, staff, manager, board member, board president, and consultant to nonprofit corporations.