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Creative and Fun Ideas.
Incentives and creativity can help your employee campaign be a fun and an enjoyable experience. The best way to use incentives within your campaign is to use them as prizes to collect pledge cards. All employees who submit their pledge card following the Heart of Maine United Way presentation, whether they decide to give or not, are eligible for the drawing.
Here’s a list of ideas to help you spice up your workplace campaign with some fun and unique activities to help keep your coworkers entertained and engaged.
Prize Raffle
Hold a drawing for small prizes for anyone who turns in their completed pledge card. Hold the drawing in a location where employees can stop for a moment and watch.
Celebrate
Hold a celebratory wrap-up event like an ice cream social or pizza party where managers announce the amount raised and thanks employees for participating. Have management serve the food.
Silly Goal Incentives
If your company reaches their goal, managers agree to trade jobs for the day, serve breakfast or lunch, wash an employee’s car, dress up in a prom gown, shave their head, sit on a block of ice during a full staff meeting, buy snacks for everyone, etc.
Donate Goods
Hold a food or supply drive at your business and encourage employees to donate. Want to partner directly with HoMEUW on your supply drive? Learn more here.
Publicize Your Support
Use United Way items such as stickers or pins to publicize the campaign – people can wear them as part of the kickoff, when they give, or you can sell them as part of a fundraiser.
Free Time Rewards
Offer “late-riser” or “early-exit” coupons for employees to come to work late or leave early one day as a reward for campaign participation.
Workplace Auction
Have employees donate items to put in an online or silent auction that is then rolled out to the whole company.
Special Events
Hold your own fundraiser-talent show, tag, flower/plant, book or bake sale, car wash, silent auction, wiffle ball or office golf tournament, balloon or flower delivery, walk-a-thon, line dancing or 1950s dance-a-thon, or a dunk tank.