Yes, you can help raise money for charities while saving the environment. by recycling your CDs through one of the many online CD recycling programs you can reduce trash going to landfills . One way you can raise money for charities is by planning a CD recycling event in your community. Families always have unwanted CDs and DVDs lying around the house and a simple spring cleaning CD drive can raise money for charities.
You can Raise Money for Charities both Local and National
Charities don’t have to be national organizations; you can choose to plan an event for a worthy local cause. Send a kid to camp or help a family down on their luck.
If you select a national organization to support, many of the online CD recycling organizations offer direct contributions. You collect all your CDs, send them in (postage paid) and they inform you of how much your CDs are worth. You opt to have your earnings sent directly to the participating national charity of your choice.
A CD Drive Can Round Up Big Bucks
A CD drive is a great project for scout troops, high school and middle school athletic teams, music programs and other youth oriented organizations. America’s youth aged 11 to 25 are the single largest purchasing group of CDs. Your kids have dozens of CDs piled up on every surface of their rooms. Turn those dust collecting CDs into cold hard charitable donations. Get your kids involved, find a charity they can get behind and help them start young, living a more charitable lifestyle.
Call the news media well in advance of your charitable event. Let them in on all the details. Ask for support with getting the word out about your charity. You don’t need a huge organization to make a simple event such as a CD drive for charity work. Careful planning and partnering with the right online CD recycling organization will simplify things tremendously.
Take a few moments and determine your target market. Get the word out to them in advance and work with high school and middle school booster organizations to plan in the weeks leading up to the drive. Schools plan their fund raising events months in advance, so contact them early when you want to raise money for charities. This sort of effort is a great way for families to donate to a worthy cause, without laying out any cash directly to support the event.
So many school fund raising events involve the purchase of unwanted items for ridiculous prices only to wait weeks for your “deal”. The schools running these programs often forget that parents have more than one child participating in more than one extracurricular activity. Take the heat off your wallets and off the environment with a great CD recycling fund raiser.
What do you do with old CDs? Have you considered donating your old CDs to raise money for charities?
This is a really interesting idea. I did not know you could do this! I was wondering what to do with my CDs once I’m done uploading them into iTunes (this has been a very long, ongoing project). Now I have a great idea!
Better than having them gather dust. Help out others - win win!
That is a great idea. I never knew you could do this either! Crazy how CDs are old news now…
What a fabulous, do-able idea! This is absolutely brilliant, and I’m inspired to organize a CD drive here in Colorado. Thanks for sharing!!
Great to hear Eliza, and nice to see you. Creative ways to raise money that don’t cost the fund raiser are gold.
I’ve never heard of this before - it’s a really great idea. I gave most of my cds away quite a while ago (When they still had some value) but Im sure I could find more.
We have a few used CD stores here in town. They don’t pay much, then more than double their money but they’re still in business for well over a decade …
Very cool idea although I am a little cautious about how well this would do. Do people still buy CD’s? I guess if you consider a more senior community than this may work really well. Kudos the creativity for sure.
People must, Miss T. Otherwise these services would not exist and new CDs wouldn’t get released.
I just learned something new! Great! I’ve never saw or heard about Cds drives. Not in Utah for sure. I might be wrong though. Brilliant. I will pass it along!
I think a lot of non-profit organizations could raise some good money with a CD drive.
Love the idea of giving back in a simple way- that’s why you’re an awesome blogger!
This is interesting…didn’t know about this.
I have some CDs from the past, but not an inordinate amount. What I do have, I’ll keep. However, if I was one of those people with several hundred CDs - and didn’t ever need most of them - I’d strongly consider trying this. Good to know of this option.
This is an awesome idea. I haven’t actually bought a CD in many years, ever since I got my first mp3 player. Lots of people still have CDs though; I never would have thought about doing this to raise money for charities. Have you done this yet?