Get involved · Fundraise
Host something. We will make it easy.
Birthdays, bake sales, bike rides, trivia nights, a workplace jeans day. You do the fun part; we do the receipts.
- Third-party events
- 27 in 2025
- Raised
- $61,400
- Toolkit
- Yes
- Cut
- 0%
What works
Most popular
Skip your birthday
Ask friends to give $12 a month instead of a gift. It is our most successful third-party format and the least amount of work.
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Bake sale or dinner
Sell something you are good at. Kids cannot run the register, but they can help plan if it is their idea.
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Bike ride or walk
A pledge-per-mile ride around Portland. We can provide a route, a waiver template, and a staff member at the finish.
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Workplace giving
Jeans day, a team lunch, a matching drive. Ask your HR team; we will send the paperwork.
Read moreThe rules, such as they are
- Tell us first. We will check the date against our calendar and make sure two people are not fundraising in the same office.
- Say “proceeds benefit STENCH” and use our name correctly — all caps, one word, no smell cloud.
- Do not collect money in our name without a way to account for it. We will send a simple tracking sheet and a donation link.
- No raffles or casino games without talking to us. Oregon has rules and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- Do not have kids sell things door to door. That is a rule about kids, not about fundraising.
- Send the money within 30 days. We will send a thank-you and a receipt for the total.
What we provide
A toolkit with a one-page flyer, the wave logo, a short paragraph about the program, a donation link, a tracking sheet, and a staff member who will answer your questions. We do not take a cut, and we do not charge for the toolkit. If your event raises $200, we get $200.
What we do not do
We do not organize your event for you, staff a table for six hours, or provide kids as entertainment. We have been asked all three. A fundraiser should cost you time and enthusiasm, not your whole month.
Tell us about your event
We will check the date, send the toolkit, and stay out of your way.