Fundraising for animal shelters, rescues, and pets
Use t-shirt fundraising to raise money for your animal cause
All types of animal organizations and pet lovers use Bonfire to fund projects and reach new audiences.
Animal shelters and rescues
Fundraisers for local animal care and welfare organizations and sanctuaries cover essential daily costs to operate as well as assist in funding projects like expansions, safely growing animal intake or building effective adoption processes.
Animal right activists
Nonprofits and individuals advocating against animal cruelty and neglect rely on creative fundraising tactics to promote responsible pet ownership and equal animal rights to community members, politicians and legislators, businesses and potential new advocates.
Assistance and service dogs
The total cost for a single service dog can be over $18,000. Organizations and individuals rely on fundraising to fully or partially cover temperament testing, training and care needed for guide, hearing and service dogs.
Pet surgery and vet bills
Fundraisers for local animal care and welfare organizations and sanctuaries cover essential daily costs to operate as well as assist in funding projects like expansions, safely growing animal intake or building effective adoption processes.
Underserved communities
Pet ownership and the love for animals span all social and geographic areas, but having access to pet care services and an ability to cover costs does not. Animal nonprofits use crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising to help those in need.
How to start an animal fundraiser with Bonfire
Design and launch
Upload custom artwork or create your design right on Bonfire
Promote & sell
Spread the word on social media while we handle everything else
Shirts are shipped
Sit back as orders are printed and sent directly to buyers
Receive the profits
Get a fast payout of 100% of the campaign profits
Why you’ll love working with Bonfire for your animal fundraiser
Premium prints
Our designers ensure your artwork prints exactly how you intended, 100% guaranteed.
Smart profit margins
As your sales increase, so do your profits. We’ll pass any savings we get on to you.
Support and service
We’ve got you covered — from e-commerce, order processing, printing and shipping.
Hear from some people who are already using Bonfire for their animal fundraisers
Selling merchandise involves time consuming tasks of maintaining an inventory, packaging items and shipping them. Bonfire has taken the burden off our shoulders. We only had to promote our campaign through social media and watched our bank account grow.”
Nancy Warren
Ewen, MI
Executive Director, National Wolfwatcher Coalition
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In two short campaigns, we raised more money in donations than we earned in over two years of running our own online store. The product quality is excellent and the end-user experience outstanding. There’s no limit to what we can do because it costs us nothing in terms oftime or money to try something new, and we love how easy it is to engage our supporters to help us generate more donations.”
Beth Zimmerman
Long Beach, NY
Executive Director & CEO, Pets for Patriots®
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Since Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary started working with Bonfire in the Spring of 2015, Bonfire shirts have become our #1 Fundraiser. We are proud to sell Bonfire shirts because of the beyond excellent quality of all the products. The process is super simple; everything is handled by the wonderful folks at Bonfire. They handle the orders, the printing, the shipping and the follow-up. It couldn’t be easier. (new paragraph) Add a fantastic staff to an excellent product and a great process and you have a perfect fundraiser. The folks at Bonfire are awesome and are always there to enthusiastically help you at any point along the way. They more than deliver what they promise. What could be better than that?”
Zina Goodin
Mount Juliet, TN
Co-Founder, Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary
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No monthly subscriptions. No inventory costs. No upfront costs.
Animal fundraising ideas for shelters, rescues, and pets to help spread the word about your t-shirt fundraiser.
Dog walks and runs
5K walks and runs are popular among charitable organizations to get the community active while raising money with t-shirts, donations and sponsorships. Animal shelters love running and walking events because participants can walk dogs from the shelter or bring their own pets.
Local news & media partnerships
There are dog and cat lovers everywhere compassionate about the welfare of animals. A win-win for both sides, this connection to a greater community makes a perfect partnership. Animal rescues and shelters often bring adoptable animals to local news station for the morning news show, have photo shoots with community figures and send fundraising information to have content published to local print, digital and social outlets.
Sponsorships and fundraising
Businesses often welcome new ideas for sponsorships opportunities. Research and contact local companies with your persuasive ask to support upcoming events and fundraising initiatives. Sponsoring businesses get positive publicity in exchange for their charitable donations.
Hold an instagram pet contest
Sharing pictures and stories of furry best friends is easy. Plan an Instagram or Facebook contest to run alongside your t-shirt fundraiser so participant’s submissions and funds come in together. Reward the best stories with prizes or challenge participants to collect the most ‘likes’. You can require a t-shirt purchase as an entry fee or simply ask for donations. At the very least, this will raise awareness to end animal cruelty and neglect
Charity car wash fundraiser
Car washes are a great animal rescue and shelter fundraising idea. Bring animal shelter pets to your charity car wash and let drivers pet them while their cars are being washed. Drivers could buzz away as new supporters who purchased a t-shirt, made a donation or even adopted a new furry friend!
Dog wash and pet grooming fundraiser
Get local pet owners together by hosting a dog and cat grooming day at your shelter or pick an accessible area with ample parking and access to water and electricity. Invite other animal rights groups, local coffee shops and neighborhood artisans and businesses to entertain and educate owners while their pets get pampered!
Ready to start your animal fundraiser?
You’re only one step away from launching your animal fundraiser on Bonfire.
