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Creative Funding Ideas for Study Abroad
- Waive holiday and birthday gifts and ask for financial contributions or loans instead of gifts.
- Ask your church, synagogue, or temple to sponsor a special offering, dinner, or raffle and give the proceeds for study abroad.
- Approach stores for donated supplies (such as clothes, camping gear, equipment, etc.).
- Write a creative letter to all of your relatives and family friends, asking for financial support in exchange for monthly letters while abroad and a presentation and dinner upon your return.
- Contact your local newspaper to see if there are paid opportunities for a series of columns or photos sent from abroad.
- Hold a bake sale, garage, flea, or rummage sale.
- Ask friends to join you in raising money by painting, cleaning, or car wash services.
- Organize an event where you and/or some friends offer workshops for a reasonable fee (computer skills, cooking, quilting, yoga, karate, dancing, sign language, stained glass, woodworking, etc.).
- Find out if your parents' employers have a scholarship program for their children.
- Ask your employer to make a cash advance to be paid back through payroll deduction. (No harm in asking!)
- In exchange for the use of your car while you're gone, ask a friend or sibling to make all or part of your car payments.
- Organize a can/bottle drive in the residence halls.
- Collect cans/bottles during homecoming tailgating. (Be sure to identify yourself and the purpose so fans will readily pass on their cans and bottles.)
- Investigate getting paid to assist with special event parking or to clean up a venue where an event has been held and ask your friends to join you.
- Ask friends and family members if they can donate frequent flyer miles, if you are buying your own ticket. Not all frequent flyer programs allow this option.
- SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!
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