Volunteer Opportunities
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Many students have talents that they may wish to offer to our worthy cause. Some ideas include:
50/50 raffle - In this simple fundraiser, individuals purchase tickets for the chance to win an undefined sum of money. When a ticket is sold, that money goes towards the jackpot. At the conclusion of the raffle, the money is totaled and a ticket is chosen at random. The winner with the matching ticket receives half the sum of money, while the school gets the remaining half.
This is a great fundraiser to host in teams, schools with another event, running simultaneously during a sports game, gala, or concert!
Auction off a parking spot - What is every student’s nightmare? Parking on campus! Nobody wants to deal with circling the parking garages and ultimately missing valuable class time. Ask your school to donate a parking spot for a period of time and host an online auction to sell a reserved parking spot in a prime location and see how high students are willing to go to avoid the everyday parking struggle.
Become a volunteer photographer - - Images are so important, so whether you’re a professional photographer or an enthusiastic hobbyist, your skillset could be a huge asset to a family, business or large company.
Car Wash - Contact a local place in a hot spot for their parking lot and get a team together to do $15 a car. Have a big party and try and get items donated to clean cars with. Ask for donations or discounts from pizzerias or sandwich shops in advance to feed your volunteers. You can try and put money jars in your local spot for donations.
Coach or Principal challenge - Sometimes coaches and principals get a reputation for being serious and authoritative— maybe even mean. This curious fundraiser will change your participants’ minds and boost team & school spirit while raising money for your cause.
Students donate with the goal of seeing their coach or principal do something silly, like getting pied in the face, kissing a pig, or dying their hair with your school’s colors. Set a reasonable fundraising goal, so participants will be able to see the payoff.
Coin jar - For this fundraiser, you’ll want to partner with a local business that agrees to keep a small jar at the registers. The jar should be visually appealing and include a quick background describing who and what these donations are for. You might be surprised at the number of people willing to drop loose change in your jar.
Coordinate a virtual mini tricky tray - Collect themed baskets and virtually raffle them off on social media to raise money.
Get Packing - Contact Shoprite of Chatham and/or other supermarkets and offer a team of athletes and students to do a bag pack to raise money for Helping Hands. So basically, students will pack groceries for shoppers and donate a percentage to Helping Hands.
Give Some Love to Animals - Offer to care for a pet for a local family and donate a percentage to Helping Hands.
Haunted house - When it comes to seasonal fundraising ideas, almost nothing outranks (or out-spooks!) a haunted house around Halloween, see the linked flyer.
Recruit parents, teachers, and volunteers to build and staff a haunted house, and have students pay a small fee to walk through. You can hold the haunted house during school hours, or host an event one evening or weekend. See Flyer attached.
Hired Hand - Students may offer their services off to help out a community group or local business, local family and get sponsored for every hour of work they complete. They may want to donate a portion of their hard-earned money to Helping Hands of Chatham.
Jelly bean jar - Keep a large jar of jelly beans (or another candy) in a highly trafficked area of the locker rooms or school for a few weeks. Encourage students, teachers, and parents to submit their jelly bean estimate into the contest for a small fee. $.50 center per guess will do it!
At the end of the set time period, the person who had the closest guess wins the jar of candy. This is one of the easiest fundraisers; all you need to get started is a clear jar, a few bags of candy, and some eager participants looking to show off their guessing skills!
Karaoke Evening - Ask a local business, ice cream shop, restaurant to host a team for you and charge people to get in or take part. Advertise around town and invite lots of your friends.
Movie Night - Ask at a local park or field and host a fundraising movie night. Hold it on a Friday evening, charge $15 per person include popcorn and prizes and raffles etc. Use social media to get volunteers to direct guests, bring popcorn machine and donate prizes for raffles. Be sure to ask a parent to get a permit from the venue that will offer the space for the movie.
Online donations - Helping Hands’ supporters need a place to give money quickly and effortlessly, and we need a way to accept those donations. Therefore, our online donation page is the foundation for all fundraising initiatives. Share on social media.
Pajama Day - Nothing beats the simplicity of a pajama day fundraiser. There is hardly any planning or startup costs, it’s easy to organize, and your team mates and students will love it. You will raise money, and kids get a nice, comfortable school day in their PJs!
Charge students a few dollars (maybe $1 to $5) to wear pajamas to school for a full day. You can amp up the fun by serving breakfast for lunch in the cafeteria or putting on a movie in the classroom. Get your participants pumped for the fundraiser by offering a prize to the class with the highest participation rate.
Penny war - For this fundraiser, you must first establish teams. You may decide to pit classrooms against each other, or maybe you want to go by grade level instead. Each team gets a jar and is encouraged to bring in coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters) for their own jars. Each coin counts positively towards the team. Things heat up when students drop dollar bills in their opponents’ jars, who then have to subtract points from their total. The competitive factor will drive students to give more to win the game! The winning team gets a pizza party or some other fun food event.
Play an Instrument and offer lessons to kids who are Hungry for Music Volunteer to teach music lessons and donate a percentage to Helping Hands.
Restaurant fundraiser - Partner with a local restaurant that is willing to host your fundraiser for an evening and contribute a portion of their sales back to your team or school. Chick-fil-A and Chipotle are popular chains that host these events, or you can choose a local favorite. Make it a spirit night by asking students and parents to come all dressed in their school garb— and remind diners to mention your fundraiser at the register!
Thanksgiving Food Collection – Helping food insecure families is an important task, especially around the holidays. Work with other students to organize a food drive by dividing them into teams to tackle the logistics of the project. Tasks include getting the word out, setting up receptacles for receiving donations, sorting donations, and transporting donations to Helping Hands. Give students ownership of the project from start to finish. They can personalize the linked food drive flyer, Be sure to have permission from parents and other adults - see HH Thanksgiving Food Drive flyer.
Donate old phones and other tech to families in need - According to the 2019 Pew Report, “America’s Digital Divide,” 21 million Americans don’t have access to high-speed Internet, and this was (BC). The next time you upgrade to a new cell phone, don't toss your old unit in the trash. Instead, have it refurbished and donate it to Helping Hands. Be sure to have permission.
Volunteer on social media - Some nonprofits may have a staff member handling their social media accounts, but many have staff members scrambling to use social media on top of all of their other duties. If you’re a social media aficionado who knows how to make a post go viral, volunteer to help your favorite charity on social media!
Volunteer to help with a video - If you’re a whiz behind the camera and can put together amazing videos, someone out there needs help.
Volunteer your design skills - Are you handy with website development, Photoshop, or great at making impactful digital images?
WalkorRun – A – Thon - See the Helping Hands Halloween Pledge fundraiser - Pledge fundraisers are one of our favorite types of team and school fundraisers thanks to their ease of planning and universal appeal. To get started, we planned a fun and engaging Halloween event that students will want to participate in. A race or walk-a-thon is one of the most common, although you can mix things up with a dance-a-thon, hit-a-thon, or even a read-a-thon.
Then, you equip each participant with their own fundraising page to share with family and friends. These supporters then pledge a certain amount (either a flat fee or per activity completed) that will be collected upon the conclusion of the event. This way, kids get to partake in an exciting event that also raises money for their school— it’s a win-win!
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Are you employed? - If you’re an employee - get your workplace involved in the movement! Ask your company to partner with Helping Hands to donate using the link below. Studies show young people are more focused on companies that provide opportunities to give back to the community. Work with your HR team.
Share on social media - One of the easiest things you can do to volunteer for your favorite charity is share their fundraiser on your social media accounts!
What other fundraising ideas can your team come up with? We’d love to know.
The benefits Of Chatham student fundraisers:
50/50 raffle - In this simple fundraiser, individuals purchase tickets for the chance to win an undefined sum of money. When a ticket is sold, that money goes towards the jackpot. At the conclusion of the raffle, the money is totaled and a ticket is chosen at random. The winner with the matching ticket receives half the sum of money, while the school gets the remaining half.
This is a great fundraiser to host in teams, schools with another event, running simultaneously during a sports game, gala, or concert!
Auction off a parking spot - What is every student’s nightmare? Parking on campus! Nobody wants to deal with circling the parking garages and ultimately missing valuable class time. Ask your school to donate a parking spot for a period of time and host an online auction to sell a reserved parking spot in a prime location and see how high students are willing to go to avoid the everyday parking struggle.
Become a volunteer photographer - - Images are so important, so whether you’re a professional photographer or an enthusiastic hobbyist, your skillset could be a huge asset to a family, business or large company.
Car Wash - Contact a local place in a hot spot for their parking lot and get a team together to do $15 a car. Have a big party and try and get items donated to clean cars with. Ask for donations or discounts from pizzerias or sandwich shops in advance to feed your volunteers. You can try and put money jars in your local spot for donations.
Coach or Principal challenge - Sometimes coaches and principals get a reputation for being serious and authoritative— maybe even mean. This curious fundraiser will change your participants’ minds and boost team & school spirit while raising money for your cause.
Students donate with the goal of seeing their coach or principal do something silly, like getting pied in the face, kissing a pig, or dying their hair with your school’s colors. Set a reasonable fundraising goal, so participants will be able to see the payoff.
Coin jar - For this fundraiser, you’ll want to partner with a local business that agrees to keep a small jar at the registers. The jar should be visually appealing and include a quick background describing who and what these donations are for. You might be surprised at the number of people willing to drop loose change in your jar.
Coordinate a virtual mini tricky tray - Collect themed baskets and virtually raffle them off on social media to raise money.
Get Packing - Contact Shoprite of Chatham and/or other supermarkets and offer a team of athletes and students to do a bag pack to raise money for Helping Hands. So basically, students will pack groceries for shoppers and donate a percentage to Helping Hands.
Give Some Love to Animals - Offer to care for a pet for a local family and donate a percentage to Helping Hands.
Haunted house - When it comes to seasonal fundraising ideas, almost nothing outranks (or out-spooks!) a haunted house around Halloween, see the linked flyer.
Recruit parents, teachers, and volunteers to build and staff a haunted house, and have students pay a small fee to walk through. You can hold the haunted house during school hours, or host an event one evening or weekend. See Flyer attached.
Hired Hand - Students may offer their services off to help out a community group or local business, local family and get sponsored for every hour of work they complete. They may want to donate a portion of their hard-earned money to Helping Hands of Chatham.
Jelly bean jar - Keep a large jar of jelly beans (or another candy) in a highly trafficked area of the locker rooms or school for a few weeks. Encourage students, teachers, and parents to submit their jelly bean estimate into the contest for a small fee. $.50 center per guess will do it!
At the end of the set time period, the person who had the closest guess wins the jar of candy. This is one of the easiest fundraisers; all you need to get started is a clear jar, a few bags of candy, and some eager participants looking to show off their guessing skills!
Karaoke Evening - Ask a local business, ice cream shop, restaurant to host a team for you and charge people to get in or take part. Advertise around town and invite lots of your friends.
Movie Night - Ask at a local park or field and host a fundraising movie night. Hold it on a Friday evening, charge $15 per person include popcorn and prizes and raffles etc. Use social media to get volunteers to direct guests, bring popcorn machine and donate prizes for raffles. Be sure to ask a parent to get a permit from the venue that will offer the space for the movie.
Online donations - Helping Hands’ supporters need a place to give money quickly and effortlessly, and we need a way to accept those donations. Therefore, our online donation page is the foundation for all fundraising initiatives. Share on social media.
Pajama Day - Nothing beats the simplicity of a pajama day fundraiser. There is hardly any planning or startup costs, it’s easy to organize, and your team mates and students will love it. You will raise money, and kids get a nice, comfortable school day in their PJs!
Charge students a few dollars (maybe $1 to $5) to wear pajamas to school for a full day. You can amp up the fun by serving breakfast for lunch in the cafeteria or putting on a movie in the classroom. Get your participants pumped for the fundraiser by offering a prize to the class with the highest participation rate.
Penny war - For this fundraiser, you must first establish teams. You may decide to pit classrooms against each other, or maybe you want to go by grade level instead. Each team gets a jar and is encouraged to bring in coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters) for their own jars. Each coin counts positively towards the team. Things heat up when students drop dollar bills in their opponents’ jars, who then have to subtract points from their total. The competitive factor will drive students to give more to win the game! The winning team gets a pizza party or some other fun food event.
Play an Instrument and offer lessons to kids who are Hungry for Music Volunteer to teach music lessons and donate a percentage to Helping Hands.
Restaurant fundraiser - Partner with a local restaurant that is willing to host your fundraiser for an evening and contribute a portion of their sales back to your team or school. Chick-fil-A and Chipotle are popular chains that host these events, or you can choose a local favorite. Make it a spirit night by asking students and parents to come all dressed in their school garb— and remind diners to mention your fundraiser at the register!
Thanksgiving Food Collection – Helping food insecure families is an important task, especially around the holidays. Work with other students to organize a food drive by dividing them into teams to tackle the logistics of the project. Tasks include getting the word out, setting up receptacles for receiving donations, sorting donations, and transporting donations to Helping Hands. Give students ownership of the project from start to finish. They can personalize the linked food drive flyer, Be sure to have permission from parents and other adults - see HH Thanksgiving Food Drive flyer.
Donate old phones and other tech to families in need - According to the 2019 Pew Report, “America’s Digital Divide,” 21 million Americans don’t have access to high-speed Internet, and this was (BC). The next time you upgrade to a new cell phone, don't toss your old unit in the trash. Instead, have it refurbished and donate it to Helping Hands. Be sure to have permission.
Volunteer on social media - Some nonprofits may have a staff member handling their social media accounts, but many have staff members scrambling to use social media on top of all of their other duties. If you’re a social media aficionado who knows how to make a post go viral, volunteer to help your favorite charity on social media!
Volunteer to help with a video - If you’re a whiz behind the camera and can put together amazing videos, someone out there needs help.
Volunteer your design skills - Are you handy with website development, Photoshop, or great at making impactful digital images?
WalkorRun – A – Thon - See the Helping Hands Halloween Pledge fundraiser - Pledge fundraisers are one of our favorite types of team and school fundraisers thanks to their ease of planning and universal appeal. To get started, we planned a fun and engaging Halloween event that students will want to participate in. A race or walk-a-thon is one of the most common, although you can mix things up with a dance-a-thon, hit-a-thon, or even a read-a-thon.
Then, you equip each participant with their own fundraising page to share with family and friends. These supporters then pledge a certain amount (either a flat fee or per activity completed) that will be collected upon the conclusion of the event. This way, kids get to partake in an exciting event that also raises money for their school— it’s a win-win!
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Are you employed? - If you’re an employee - get your workplace involved in the movement! Ask your company to partner with Helping Hands to donate using the link below. Studies show young people are more focused on companies that provide opportunities to give back to the community. Work with your HR team.
Share on social media - One of the easiest things you can do to volunteer for your favorite charity is share their fundraiser on your social media accounts!
What other fundraising ideas can your team come up with? We’d love to know.
The benefits Of Chatham student fundraisers:
- No upfront costs
- No goal requirements, we are all in this together, donate what you can.
- Interactive 'liking' and commenting experience to easily engage supporters
- Helping Hands is happy to acknowledge student volunteers for community service hours.
Thank you for your continued support of our work and mission. We invite you to visit us and learn more about our commitment to the community.
Your volunteer team at Helping Hands
Helping Hands, NJ - Chatham, NJ 07928
[email protected] | 201-988-9070
Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/helpinghandsofchatham
Helping Hands distributes essential items through our large and growing network of individuals and partner organizations throughout New Jersey.
Your volunteer team at Helping Hands
Helping Hands, NJ - Chatham, NJ 07928
[email protected] | 201-988-9070
Link Tree - https://linktr.ee/helpinghandsofchatham
Helping Hands distributes essential items through our large and growing network of individuals and partner organizations throughout New Jersey.