Out of money. What can I do?

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I saw one college kid on the news who came up with this really stupid (but incredibly genius) thing. He is selling a million pixels on a web page for $1 per pixel. Anyway, he has made $700,000 already. I think that'll just barely cover college eh?

Anyway, I don't know if you'd be too successful with that, but it wouldn't take too much to try.

Another interesting thing I've heard about is an online forum where you can pay to change people's user titles and thread titles for some sum of money. This would be a little difficult to set up though.

What we have had much success with lately is candy sales (Airheads to be specific). Made about a grand each time.

What we have been successful with in the past is plaques. We get the machine shop to do us up some nice little plaques and put the team photo on them (pic). It costs at the most about $6 in materials and we "sell" them for a $100 dollar donation by going around to all the local businesses and saying "hey look, you sponsor all these soccer and baseball teams, why not sponsor us?". We also include a putting their logo on the team shirt and website in that $100 price.

One thing I saw on TV for a little league team is one mom sold advertising space on her kid's head. (auctioned off the space on eBay) She got a few hundred $ to let somebody put their sticker on his helmet.

One thing I've heard of but never tried is where you can hold an event at school to let people pay to throw pies at a teacher, or to duct tape them to a wall.

Best of luck!