Sell Something

• Sell Purple Ribbons: These can be sold in banks, gas stations, fast food restaurants, convenience stores, restaurants, or even in your office.
• Neighborhood/Company Bake Sale: Host a bake sale for your office, neighborhood or school. Ask coworkers to donate baked goods and advertise everywhere you can. Ask passers-by to make a donation and tell them their donation stays local and it supports the Epilepsy Association of Western and Central PA.
• Silent Auction: Reach out to local businesses for prize donations. Plan a fun evening where people bid for prizes and raise money.
• Raffle: Ask your employer if he/she would raffle a prime parking space or the day/half day off of work. Or raffle a basket or gift certificates.
• Product Party: Everyone has a friend who represents a company like Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, Stella & Dot, etc. Host an event in your home and ask the sales rep to donate a percentage of sales to your fundraising campaign.
• Car washes
• Yard or garage sale
• Concession stand takeover

Host an athletic event

• Golf Tournament: Start a charity tournament and have players buy-in with a donation to play. Get local companies involved as sponsors or in-kind prize donors.
• Charity Yoga/Barre/Cycling Class: Ask a local fitness studio to donate registration fees for a class to your fundraising.
• Cornhole/Dodgeball/Kickball/Softball Tournament: Set an entry fee and ask friends/family/neighbors to start a team to compete. Create a bracket and have fun whittling down the competition for a cause.
• Train for an endurance event: Create, or join, an athletic event of your choice. Run your first marathon. Climb the nearest mountain. Ride your bike from coast-to-coast. It’s up to you.
• Bowl-a-thons

Host a food event

• Spaghetti Dinner/Pancake Breakfast: Invite your community over for a themed meal and ask that they make a donation in return. Partner with a church or community center and get the space donated. Go the extra mile and ask businesses in your neighborhood to donate food/beverages.
• Backyard BBQ: Invite people over for an outdoor meal and ask that they make a donation in return. Take it a step further and ask your local grocery store/businesses to donate food.
• Bake Sale
• Lemonade/grape-ade stand
• Restaurant night
• Wine and Cheese night
• Ice cream social

Host a community event

• Trivia Night Happy Hour: Host a Trivia Night where teams compete against each other. Have prizes for winners and take additional donations throughout the evening.
• Home or Garden Tour: Ask friends/neighbors to volunteer their homes/gardens to appear on a tour in your community. Charge an admission fee and have it count towards your fundraising.
• Poker/Bingo Tournament: Find a location to host a tournament. Ask local businesses to donate food/prizes and charge an entry fee to play.
• Benefit concerts or performance
• Fashion show
• Paint your own party
• Ugly sweater party

Create a competition

• Internal Challenge — Challenge each department to raise money for epilepsy.
• Penny drives

At work

• Jeans/Dress Down Friday at the Office: Organize a dress-down day at the office. Work with your boss/HR department to host a day where employees can dress casually in exchange for a donation.
• Company Gift Matching: Check with your employer to see if they will match the funds that you raise.
• Donation Can: Place a can in your company cafeteria. You will be surprised how fast spare change adds up.
• Lunch and Learn: Order pizza and let your co-workers know what epilepsy is and how it has affected your life.

OTHER

• Clothing Swap: Ask friends and family to donate old clothes and accessories that they no longer wear. Host a party and sell items for donations.
• Special Occasion Fundraiser: Donate your birthday/anniversary to the EAWCP. In lieu of gifts, ask your friends and family to make a donation.