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One good idea is to have a bottle blitz. Collecting empty beer bottles can make a lot of money. The best way to do this would be to divide the team into pairs, and have each pair cover a certain area of your neighborhood or city (depending on the size). Just a couple hours of collecting could make $20 or $30 per person. If a team of 20 did this for about 3 hours each, you could make a lot of money!

Why not hold a fashion show? This obviously works best in larger cities, where there is a population to support such an event. First, contact local stores, and see if they'd be interested in loaning a couple of outfits for a fashion show. It would be good free advertising for the store, so most will probably be interested. Tell all your friends and family members, as well as advertising with posters. This will ensure the maximum number of people show up, and the more money your team will make. It's also a lot of fun to get your team to be the models!

This one is more common, but you could easily hold a bar sale. Select one day that the whole team could go around the city and sell bars. This could be done the same way as a bottle blitz. Pair the team up and select certain neighborhoods for each pair. Ask your local newspaper to do a write-up on your "Bar Day" to let the community know your intentions. The more people are aware of what you're trying to do, the more they will want to support your team! After all, who could refuse a delicious chocolate bar?

Here's another good idea. Hold a lip-sync contest! Put posters around schools, the rink, absolutely anywhere, asking people to start practicing for your awesome lip-sync contest! The best place to hold this type of contest is a local bar or nightclub. Obviously, have it in the daytime, so that everyone can get in! If you're lucky, the owner might let you have the club for free (they'd make money off chip, drink, and bar sales of course). Then, you round up a couple judges (ask your parents, teachers, whoever you want!). Ask everyone who plans on entering to sign up before a certain date, and charge an entry fee. Then, on "Lip-Sync Day", charge the people who come to watch. Make sure the entrants bring their own tapes! The contestants go up on stage (or to the front) and lip-sync to their favorite song. Usually, there are different age groups, and prizes awarded. You can usually get these prizes donated. What do you get? You end up with an afternoon of great fun and awesome music, as well as a whole pile of money. If you make it an annual event, the crowd will start to grow and grow, until there isn't enough room for everyone! We hold a lip-sync during our city's annual Winter Carnival, and the turnout every year is amazing!

During the summer, hold a car wash! Find a place where you can hold it, such as a gas station or a parking lot, and gather your team together will buckets, suds, and sponges. Make a huge sign that says "Car Wash" in enormous letters. Make sure it's easy to read and colorful, so that when people drive by, they can't help but notice it. Obviously, charge a couple dollars per car, and at the end of the day you should end up with a fair amount of cash. The only problem is that this is a "weather permitting" thing. I wouldn't suggest holding a car wash in the rain. That would be kind of pointless!

I just thought I'd let you know that the above isn't guaranteed to work. There's always a chance that you won't make as much money as you hoped. These are just some ideas that I gathered that seemed to work. Some may be more successful than others, depending on where you live, and the types of things people in your area usually go for. I won't be held responsible if some of these ideas don't work for your team!