List of Fundraising Ideas

by Rena Klingenberg
(Home Jewelry Business Success Tips)

A Roundup of Ways to Use Your Jewelry
to Make the World a Better Place

I put together this list of fundraising ideas to help you brainstorm ways you can use your jewelry to help a charity or special cause.

These actual fundraiser examples from other jewelry artists show a variety of ways that you can either:

• sell your jewelry and donate a portion of the proceeds to a charity, or


• donate some of your jewelry to charity auctions or raffles that will benefit a cause, or


• create special jewelry to sell for a particular charity.

How to Do
Successful Jewelry Fundraiser Events

Everything you need to know about putting on your own fundraiser jewelry shows - including the often-overlooked step of promoting and publicizing your events:

Fundraiser Jewelry Shows
This is an easy and wonderful way to profit from your art, acquire new customers, and help others at the same time. Includes tips for promoting your event and a sample newspaper article for publicity.

Invitations and Flyers Used for a Christmas Craft Show Fundraiser
The exact promotional materials a group of artists used to publicize their successful series of holiday fundraiser shows.

Doing Online Jewelry Fundraisers

Tips and ideas for setting up a jewelry benefit on the Internet:

How to Set up an Online Jewelry Fundraiser
See this discussion that helped Heidi decide to set up her online jewelry fundraiser as an Etsy shop.

Jewelry Designs that Change Lives
Dee Gordon explains how she sells the jewelry she designed as fundraisers for Kiva.org. Be sure to see Dee's great tips on selling jewelry for a good cause.

School Fundraiser Jewelry Ideas

Most schools have to raise funds each year for needs ranging from classroom materials to band uniforms to new facilities. Here are ways you can use your jewelry to help out:

A Profitable New Market for School Spirit Jewelry
Hot tips for designing jewelry for schools all the way from kindergarten through college, and ways to sell it to raise money for your school.

How Your Jewelry Can Help Your Kids' School
Linda Blackbourn shares three fun and wonderful ways your jewelry can make a difference at your kids' school - and how it benefits your jewelry business at the same time.

Donating Handmade Jewelry
for Charitable Auctions or Raffles

How to donate pieces of your jewelry to auction or raffle events, in a way that everybody wins:

Charitable Donations of Jewelry
Cheryl Smith shares her success tips for donating your handmade jewelry to charity auctions or raffles - and how to make it beneficial for you too.

Twelve Days of Christmas - a Unique Earring Display for a Holiday Fundraiser
See the unique jewelry display Manuela Tufano used for showing her jewelry in a charity auction.

Creating Jewelry for
a Cause That Matters to You

List of fundraising ideas for jewelry designs:

Tips for Creating Fundraiser Jewelry for a Cause that Matters to You
Tips for creating a powerful jewelry design for a cause that's near and dear to your heart.

Awareness Jewelry - Tips for Designing and Marketing Jewels of Hope
Georgia Hadley details how to make and market "awareness jewelry" for a good cause.

Jewelry for Charity - How Jewelry Makers Help Important Causes
Margaret Shuster explores various ways jewelry artists are using their creations for charity and other causes.

List of Fundraiser Ideas -
Jewelry Artists' Examples for
Specific Charities

Real stories of jewelry artists' experiences in designing and selling jewelry specificially for a particular charity:

Japan Disaster Relief Necklace
How Karen Kelsky designed a symbolic necklace and sold it to raise funds for the Red Cross in Japan, after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.

Diabetes Fundraiser Jewelry
Teenage jewelry artist Micah Marie Lynch has Type I diabetes - and creates jewelry with insulin pump caps to raise money for a children's diabetes camp.

Alzheimer's Awareness Jewelry - A Violet for Remembrance
Sarah Barnes' story of creating and selling Alzheimer's awareness jewelry, after losing her mother to the disease.

Conquer Kids' Cancer Jewelry - from Inspiration to Salvation
Deira Gerritsen's moving story of how her jewelry, designed for beauty and healing, took on a new purpose after her son was diagnosed with cancer.

Brain Cancer Awareness Bracelet
After Jen Warren's husband was diagnosed with brain cancer, she designed this bracelet to raise funds for the National Brain Tumor Society.

"Save the Gulf" Ocean-Inspired Necklace
As the oil spill continued to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, Shannon McMullen created this ocean-themed necklace to raise funds for the cleanup and wildlife rescue.

Helping Foster Children with Cocktail Cluster Rings
How Laura Evans provides a gift card directly to a foster child every time she sells a ring.


Rena Klingenberg
Home Jewelry Business Success Tips