Advice and training program

Find out who your most generous donor is and present a prize (ex. movie tickets) to the winner.

Employees who arrive late to a meeting must make a donation.

Exercise the right to wear comfy clothes in exchange for a donation ($5/employee, $10 /manager, $20/ senior manager).

Organize a philanthropic day where employees who make a donation will end, for example, 1 hour earlier.

Use internal communications tools to get the company and its employees involved in a cause: website, internal newsletter, … Integrate a fundraising initiative into an existing activity for employees.

By purchasing tickets, the employee has a chance to win half of the total sum raised.

Add the email signature in your toolbox (once connected to your profile) to your current signature and refer your contacts directly to your online profile.

Solicit clients/suppliers/employees by sending them a letter with a donation form or an email with a link to the online donation page.

Use the draw suggested by the Tour CIBC Charles-Bruneau to solicit people in your network of contacts (the total sum collected via ticket sales will be recorded in the donations collected by the cyclist).

Offer a free course, training or conference in exchange for a donation.

Hold a bake sale and sell cookies at a fixed price or solicit a donation from among a selection by explaining where the money will go and showing the progress of donations raised from one day to the next. Repeat the experience if colleagues/friends ask for the recipe.

Propose a wine or beer tasting by videoconference.

Organize an Online Bingo.

Ask your colleagues or friends to present you with a challenge in exchange for a donation. You’d be surprised at how much money you can raise with this little game! You’ll find that many people will jump at the chance to issue a challenge that makes you look comical, but it will pay off!

Replace the traditional garage sale with a used items sale using Facebook's Marketplace.

Discounted take-away meals would allow you to recover a proportion of the amount requested in donations. Take the experience one step further by enjoying it "together" virtually.

Another way to let your friends and contacts know about your involvement in a cause is to share photos or statuses on different social media networks while including a link to your personal page so that people can donate to you directly online. Use the hashtag #TourCCB (Tour CIBC Charles-Bruneau) and identify the @Fondation in your publications (Fondation Charles-Bruneau).