Kids For Wish Kids®
Your Passion Can Transform Lives
Kids For Wish Kids is a program managed by kids, for kids.
Utilizing the Wish Your Way fundraising program, participants can register at no cost and have access to utilize online fundraising tools to collect donations, create teams for friendly competitions between sports teams, grade levels and more, allowing quick activation and a variety of collection opportunities. Whether your events are happening during the school day or after school at a sporting event, your students have access to fundraising tools every step of the way. Students who utilize both online fundraising and in-person event collections (bake sales, car washes, penny wars, and more) raise more funds on average. The Wish Your Way fundraising app is excellent for communicate with each other and for fundraisers to have collection opportunities at their fingertips.
Connect with your local chapter to learn more or start a fundraiser.
Project Ideas
Wish Week
With a week full of fun, you can plan different activities each day or coordinate two or three fundraisers during the week. You can even combine existing school events, such as homecoming or spirit week. It’s totally customizable!
Sell It
Sales fundraisers are a win-win for everyone! Create your own or choose from some of these sales: bake, garage, cookbook, candy grams, holiday gift baskets, finals “survival” kits, flowers, wristbands, T-shirts, Make-A-Wish paper stars, etc.
Miracle Minute
During an assembly, pep rally or sporting event, set the scoreboard clock or timer for one minute and pass a donation bucket. See how much change – or dollars – you can raise.
'Thons
Host a danceathon, walkathon, readathon or any other type of 'thon! Encourage your friends and family to make general donations and/or pledges for each minute they dance, lap they walk/run, minute they read, etc.
Get Sporty
Coordinate a sports tournament or event, and raise funds via registration fees, admission, concessions or contests. Student vs. teacher, faculty vs. administration or face off with a rival group – the format is up to you.
Fun Night
Make it a night to remember and raise funds. Whether a game or movie night, carnival or dance, charge an admission fee and sell concessions during the event. Recruit a committee to help with decorations and music.
Success Stories
Tennessee school crushes first fundraising campaign
Students from First Assembly Christian School raise a whopping $12,000 to sponsor a life-changing wish for Jordan.
Colorado schools break chapter and program record
Kids For Wish Kids brings Colorado schools and students together and raise $1.1 million in the 2017-2018 school year.
Lakeview Elementary celebrates 11 years of support
From student-teacher basketball games to Dress Down Days, school has raised more than $75,000 for Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley.