The Big List Of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns - Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum

It’s amazing what people will do to raise money for their favorite charities. Check out the list below for ideas that can help your charity build its next peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. It’s likely you will find something that will inspire your supporters to raise money on your charity’s behalf. Check out an infographic about the wide range of peer-to-peer campaigns out there.

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Independent Campaigns

Supporters create fundraising campaigns on a charity’s behalf by adopting a suggested theme or coming up with their own idea.

Celebration Campaigns
- Baby showers (e.g., UNICEF’s World Baby Shower)
- Birthdays (e.g., charity: water – Donate Your Birthday)
- Bar Mitzvah (e.g., JF&CS Bar Mitzvah Campaign)
- Wedding gifts (e.g., I Do Foundation)

Challenge Campaigns
- 100-Hole Golf Marathon (e.g., Alpine Children’s Charity Longest Day of Golf)
- 3-Legged Walk (e.g., Walking With the Wounded: Three-Legged Challenge)
- Beard/Mustache Growing (e.g., Movember)
- Birding (e.g., Bird-a-Thon)
- Boxing (e.g., Haymakers for Hope)
- Breakfast (e.g., Britain’s Biggest Breakfast)
- Chili Pepper Challenge (e.g., The Open Door Chili Pepper Challenge)
- Cross-Country Run (e.g., Run Across America)
- Cross-Country Walk (e.g., Walk Across America)
- Dog Biscuit Challenge (e.g., SPCA of Erie County Dog Biscuit Challenge)
- Face Your Fears (e.g., Fearless Challenge
- Fasting for a Day (e.g., World Vision Youth Canada 30-Hour Challenge)
- Flying Around the World (e.g., Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
- Giving Up Drinking (e.g., Dry July)
- Giving Up Junk Food (e.g., Feb Fast)
- Head Shaving (e.g., St. Baldrick’s Foundation Head-Shaving Events)
- Hot Coals (e.g., Fundraising Firewalk Challenge)
- Ice Bucket Challenge (e.g., ALS Ice Bucket Challenge)
- Experience Poverty (e.g., Global Poverty Project Live Below the Line)
- Longest Day of the Year (e.g., The Longest Day)
- Marathon Underwater Walk (e.g., Royal Navy and Royal Navy Marines)
- Mountain Climbing (e.g., CLIMB to Fight Breast Cancer)
- Nighttime Golf (e.g., Nine at Night)
- Pancake Breakfast (e.g., Pancakes for Parkinson’s)
- Race a Tiger (e.g., WWF Tiger Challenge)
- Red Nose Day (e.g., Comic Relief: Red Nose Day)
- Rickshaw (e.g., Animal People Rickshaw Ride)
- Selfies (e.g., #nomakeupselfie campaign)
- Shopping (e.g., Shopping for a Cure)
- Silence (e.g., Dont-Talk-A-Thon)
- 10,000 Steps (e.g., Steptember, 10,000 Steps a Day)
- Stilt Walk (e.g., Stilt Walk)
- Subway Ride (e.g., Walk the Tube)
- Surfing (e.g., Surf to School)
- Tennis (e.g., Rally for Charity)
- Unicycle (e.g., Unicycle Ride)
- Unicycle Mountain Ride (e.g., Unicycle Mountain Ride)
- Walk of Shame (e.g., The Walk of Shame Showdown)
- Waxing (e.g., Ride for Willen Leg Waxing Challenge
- Wear a Bald Wig (e.g., Be Bold Be Bald)
- Weight Loss (e.g., Biggest Loser)
- Wing Walk (e.g., Wing Walk for Charity)
- Wrestling (e.g., Pin Cancer)

Memorial Campaigns
- Honor an animal (e.g., Panda Nation: Favorite Animal)
- Memorials/Tributes (e.g., Minnesota Zoo Foundation)

Endurance Campaigns

Supporters participate individually or as part of a team in physically challenging events that are produced by a third party.

Half Marathon (e.g., Charity Half Marathons)
Ironman (e.g., Ironman Lake Placid for MMRF)
Marathon (e.g., Chicago Marathon for Team World Vision)
Obstacle Race (e.g., Tough Mudder for Wounded Warrior Foundation)
Triathlon (e.g., Cancer Research UK Triathlon Program)

Proprietary Campaigns

Fundraising events planned and hosted by charities.

Cycling

- Indoor Cycling/Spinning (e.g., Cycle for Survival)
- Multi-Person Bike Rides (e.g., Big Bike)
- Rides (e.g., Bike MS)
- Toilet Ride (e.g., Toilet Twinning)
Immersive
- Shack-a-Thon (e.g., Habitat for Humanity Shack-a-Thon)
- Sleep Out (e.g., Sleep Out)
- Walking in High Heels (e.g., Walk a Mile in Her Shoes)
- Walking with water (e.g., Walk for Water)