A-Z Campaign Special Event Ideas

Campaign events play a crucial role in advocating for your workplace giving campaign among employees. They foster a lively atmosphere for socializing and provide coordinators with a platform to share campaign messages to a broader audience. Yet, orchestrating these events can pose challenges.  

Here are some popular campaign event ideas for you to try: 

A 

• Amazing Race/Scavenger Hunt 

• Auction 

B 

• Baby Face – Guess the Baby Picture 

• Bagel Breakfast 

• Bake Sale 

• Balloon Pop with Prizes 

• Barbeque Contest 

• Beach Bash 

• Bike-a-thon 

• Bingo 

• Book, Music, Video Sale 

C 

• Cake Walk 

• Candy Grams 

• Casino Day/Night 

• CEO/Executive Car Wash 

• Chili Cook-off Contest 

• Coffee Cart – Leadership Serves 

• Costume Contest 

• Craft Sale 

• Lunch Box Auction 

• Crocktoberfest 

• Cubicle Makeover Contest 

D 

• Dance Marathon 

• Darts Match 

• Department Breakfast or Lunch 

• Dessert Cart 

• Dunk Tank for Leadership 

 

E 

• Embarrassing Haircut for Leadership 

• Employee Cookbook 

• Employee Impact Speaker 

• Executive Auction 

 

F 

• Flip-Flop Day 

• Food Trucks for Lunch 

• Fun Run 

G 

• Golf Tournament (Putt Putt) 

• Guess the Baby Photo 

• Guess the Number of Items in the Jar 

H 

• Halloween Candy Bags 

• Healthy Snack Break 

• Hopscotch Races 

• Hot Dog Eating Contest 

I 

• Ice Cream Cart/Social 

• Internal Campaign Music Video 

• International Food Day 

J 

• Jeans Day Stickers 

• Jump Rope Contest 

K 

• Karaoke 

• Kickball Tournament 

L 

• Leadership Led Bar-B-Que 

• Life Size Executive – Pay to Remove 

M 

• Mardi Gras 

• Mascot Contest 

• Mini Golf 

• Minute to Win It 

N 

• Nearly New Sale 

O 

• Office Decorating 

• Office Olympics 

• One Day Leave Raffle 

P 

• Pancake Breakfast 

• Penny Wars 

• Pet Photo Contest 

• Photo Booth 

• Pie in the Face of Leadership 

• Pie Bake-Off 

• Pizza Lunch 

• Popcorn Sales 

• Polar Plunge 

• Potluck Lunch 

• Pumpkin Carving or Decorating Contest 

Q 

• Quit it for Charity 

• Quizzes 

R 

• Raffle 

• Rock Band – Battle of the Bands 

• Rowboat Races 

S 

• Silent Auction 

• Slipper or Shorts Day 

• Snowman Contest – Dress the Employee 

• Softball Tournament 

• Spirit Day 

• Stock the Pantry 

• Stuff the Bus with School Supplies 

• Sucker for a Buck (Lollipop Sales) 

 

 

T 

• Talent Show 

• Team Fitness Challenge 

• Team Jersey Day 

• Treasure Hunt 

• Tricycle Races 

• Tug-of-War 

• Twister 

U 

• Ugly Sweater Day 

• Unwanted Gift Sale 

V 

• Vegetable Bakeoff 

• “Voice” Contest 

• Volunteer 

W 

• Walks 

• Wine and Cheese Party 

 

X 

• Xercise Classes 

Y 

• Yoga-thon 

• Yogurt Cart/Social 

Z 

• Zero Sugar Competition