I need fundraiser ideas for an eighth grade trip to DC besides from a Bake Sale or Raffle. Help Needed.

Car wash! HAve fun on the safe part of a busy intersection-the kids can do their puppy dog faces,and Guilt trip people into helping! Always worked when I was in school!*

Collect cans turn them in for cash. Bag groceries at the local grocery store for tips. There is always 10 or so kids at our local store doing that. It doesn't cost the store anything and I easier than washing cars. I always tip them not to bag my groceries. LOL

Have the mom's wash cars in tee shirts no bra

One school playied Justin beber none stop over the pa system until they raised $1,000 it took three days

First of all, congrats on getting your fundraising started! Raising support for a worthy cause can be super rewarding. But obviously, if you're not an official non-profit, it can be really tricky finding a good way to build support for your cause.

One route you might want to consider: setting up a homepage for your group on a fundraising website. Having a group homepage online makes organizing and fundraising infinitely easier ... And though the majority of fundraising sites require you have official non-profit status, many good ones only require that you are a group - and will give you plenty of the tools you need.

For example, one good site is Meet Up (www.meetup.com), who allow you to fundraise directly to your account, and register a group without having an official non-profit status - and they cover groups around the world, while giving you some tools to do event management. But the tools they offer are a little limited outside of fundraising.

Another good option would be Empowered.org (www.empowered.org), a platform that also helps small groups fundraise and organize (regardless of non-profit status). They also work for international groups - and offer a fair amount of useful tools, like the ability to organize your group or to create volunteer activities and fundraising campaigns for more targeted ways to raise support.

Or you could always try to send up your own PayPal account to link to you directly to help you fundraise, but this is a little trickier and a bit inflexible.

Good luck getting started moving forward! Hope that helped.