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Charity Team Building Events and Activities
Charity team building events, often called give-back team building activities, pair a hosted team competition with a donation your group builds or packs: bikes for kids, guitars for a youth music program, care packages for service members or bags of essentials for people experiencing homelessness.
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26 charity team building events

Bike Build Donation®
A charity team building activity for groups of 30 to 1,000+. Teams earn parts in quick challenges, build new bicycles together and donate them, with helmets and locks, to kids from a local charity.
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Build-a-Guitar®
Learning to play music can have a very powerful and positive effect on young people. With Build-a-Guitar®, corporate groups have the opportunity to build and donate guitars to young people. As the name suggests, teams are tasked to build high-quality guitars from custom designed kits. The finished guitars are then donated to teens through schools and other youth organizations.
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Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation
Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation is a fun charity team building program where your group will design, construct and play a mini golf course using canned and boxed food items. Working in teams, each hole has a special theme and rules, unique to that hole. After the course has been built, an entertaining tournament ensues with scoring and fun competition. Once completed, the course will be deconstructed and the food donated to a predetermined food bank or similar organization.
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STEM Backpacks for Kids
STEM Backpacks for Kids is a heart-warming, charitable, team-building program devoted to promoting and emphasizing the importance of education in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
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Bears and Blankets
Bears and Blankets is a heartwarming charity event where your teams will build items to comfort younger children in distress through various charitable organizations.
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Donation Nation Care Packs
Donation Nation Care Packs is a meaningful team building experience that brings your group together to assemble care packages for community organizations that support people in need.Through a series of fun and interactive challenges, your group earns the materials used to create thoughtful packages that benefit homeless shelters, food banks, hospices, veterans’ groups, animal shelters, and many other community-focused agencies.
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Operation Military Care
This event will give your group a deep sense of patriotism as it works together to prepare care packages for people currently serving in the military. Teams will first engage in various point-based activities including trivia, puzzles and other problem-solving scenarios. The care packages are then assembled and decorated for donation to service men and women and their families.
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Earth Wind and Solar
On your mark…Get set….Sun! In this energizing event, teams compete in trivia and creative challenges to earn materials, build solar-powered “rovers,” and assemble science kits that are donated to children in need.
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Helping the Homeless
Your group will be packing bags filled with items for men, women, and children experiencing homelessness. Teams complete a series of fun activities to earn the points they need to acquire all the items for the care packs, which may include clothes and blankets, toiletries and hygiene items, first aid supplies, food, school supplies, and toys for children.
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Kids Rock!™
Kids Rock!™ is a fun CSR charity team building event where teams assemble rocking chairs, rocking horses, and stuffed animals for children while participating in fun icebreakers. Immediate, tangible results are created and employee morale is boosted through the building and donation of these memorable items for local community centers, hospitals or schools.
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Hydroponics for Hunger
A wonderful eco-conscious charitable program that will educate your team about growing produce for nutrition and medicine, and the sustainable advantages of hydroponic (soil-free!) gardening. At the conclusion of the program, your group will assemble hydroponic grow system kits that will be donated to community organizations to grow their very own fruits, vegetables, and herbs!
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Build-A-Rollator
In Build-A-Rollator, your group takes part in a build-a-rolling-walkers charity initiative, assembling high-quality Rollators that are donated to those in need through a selected nonprofit.
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Cancer Care Comfort Packs
Cancer Care Comfort Packs is a meaningful CSR program that will have your group navigating through a series of engaging activities leading up to the assembling of care packages for patients undergoing chemotherapy or other treatments.
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Autism Awareness Sensory Donation
Our Autism Sensory Donation program not only brings your group together to assemble wonderful sensory support kits for donation to autism therapy programs and non-profit organizations, but also enhances awareness of the effects, behaviors, and challenges of the disorder through engaging sensory activities. Your group will leave this program with a greater understanding of what autism is, and how to support the people in their lives with an autism spectrum disorder.
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Project Alzheimer’s™
Inspired by the powerful documentary, Alive Inside, this heartwarming program is designed to help those living in nursing homes, particularly those individuals living with Alzheimer’s Disease or other causes of dementia. Your group will participate in activities with music and memory themes, earning MP3 players and other items to donate to the elderly afflicted with this terrible disease.
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Fostering Hope
Fostering Hope is a heartwarming team-building program that culminates with the assembly of care packages for Adoptive and Foster Care children filled with items recommended by networks that distribute care packs to deserving kids. Your group will complete tasks, challenges, and trivia to gain the points needed to purchase the items your team will need to complete their Fostering Hope care packs.
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Wagon Build Donation
Wagon Build Donation benefits underprivileged preschool-age children, providing them with a classic learning tool to boost their coordination, imagination and much more. Teams will build full-size, red wagons for donation to a local charity, loading each one with a stuffed animal and children’s book. This program will leave your team feeling energized and with a sense of accomplishment, knowing they put smiles on the faces of children in need.
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Charity Game Show
Your group will bond and have a blast with this program that both entertains and benefits a worthy cause. Teams will face off to answer questions on various topics including History, Pop Culture, Sports and more on a realistic game show set complete with podiums, buzz-in buttons and a large projected answer board. It concludes with a check donation to the charity of your choice.
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Build-a-Band®
With our corporate CSR event Build-a-Band®, your group will build high-quality guitars, bass guitars, and drum sets to be donated to youth-serving agencies and organizations, and school music programs that are in need of instruments. Your group has the exclusive opportunity to bring the positive power of music to young people in your community!
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Putting for Pets
Putting for Pets is a fun corporate philanthropy event that concludes with the donation of pet food/supplies to local animal shelters and rescue organizations. Your group will design and build a unique one-of-a-kind, miniature golf holes using pet supplies and other building materials. Your team will experience the joy that comes from giving to fuzzy paws and a worthwhile cause!
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Pediatric Care Donation
Pediatric Care Donation is a meaningful charitable program that will have your group navigating through a series of engaging activities leading up to the assembly of bins full of donation items for children who could really use a smile during a difficult time.
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Literacy for Little Ones
With Literacy for Little Ones, your team will assist in gifting the love of literacy to young readers! This wonderful charitable program brings your group together to assemble donation packages of books and supporting materials to help build the foundation of lifelong literacy for young children from infancy to age 5.
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We Care for Kids™
We Care for Kids™ is a heart-warming, charitable, team-building program devoted to helping children in disadvantaged school systems while boosting employee morale through assembling and donating items for children in need. Our We Care For Kids backpacks provide underprivileged kids with items that make them realize their community truly cares about their hopes and dreams. If you want to make a difference in the life of a child, We Care for Kids is an event your group will never forget.
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Minute 2 Win It! for Charity
Minute 2 Win It! for Charity will bring out the best in team spirit and a sense of community responsibility from your participants as they compete in tabletop challenges to earn items to create care packages to donate to a local charity. Fast-paced fun, teamwork, and competition are at the heart of every one of these events we deliver. Perfect to include in any corporate or social gathering, or as a stand-alone program.
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Operation Toy Donation
Operation Toy Donation is a wonderfully meaningful program designed to benefit disadvantaged children. The program includes fun icebreakers and revolves around the assembling of children’s toys and necessities, which are packaged and festively wrapped. It’s the perfect charity team building event if your group wants to make a difference in the lives of children in need!
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We Care for Schools
We Care for Schools benefits local schools that are in dire need of supplies, including pencils, paper, glue, paintbrushes, first aid kits, and more for the classroom, nurse’s office, and art room. While participating in fun activities and challenges delivered on iPads, your team will assemble bags full of these items for donation to the local school district. Participants will leave feeling great with the knowledge that they helped support a child’s education.
See the activity →I was expecting it would go well but the outcome was outstanding. This is a tough group but you had them in the palm of your hand from the warm up games, the build off, to the children coming in to collect their bikes.

Judy
Hilton Hotels
The details
About Charity Team Building Events and Activities
We arrange the charity before your event and deliver the activity anywhere in North America, and the recipients receive what your teams made.
Teams earn parts and supplies through games and challenges, then assemble the donation together, so the same activity works for 30 people or a conference of 1,000+. Our charity team building activities have benefited schools, children, veterans, Alzheimer’s patients and many more.
How it works
How the donation works
- Step 1:
Pick the cause
Choose one of our charitable partners or ask our charity team to arrange an organization near your venue.
- Step 2:
We stock the build
Everything from bike kits to care-package contents ships from our own warehouse, so the materials arrive on time anywhere in the U.S.
- Step 3:
Teams earn and build
Challenges earn the parts. Each team of about 10 assembles its item in 1.5 to 2.5 hours.
- Step 4:
The hand-off is part of the event
The charity partner receives the items at the end of the program, and sometimes the recipients are in the room to collect them.

Case study
The largest bike build on record
- Managers building
- 3,500
- Bikes donated
- 1,000+
- BEST staff on site
- 180
In February 2018, 3,500 managers from one retailer's U.S., Canadian and Mexican teams built more than 1,000 bikes in a single session at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, with 180 BEST support staff on the floor. The bikes were donated at the conclusion of the event. Most charity builds are a few hundred people in a hotel ballroom, and the same crew and charity coordination scale down to a team of 30.
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Questions, answered
FAQs about Charity Team Building Activities
Group size, timing, venues and logistics. Anything else, a planner answers the same day.
What is a charity team building event?
A charity team building event is a facilitated team competition whose output is donated. Teams earn parts and materials through challenges, then build bikes, guitars or rollators, or pack care packages, for a charity that receives them at the end of the program. The group gets the team building and the charity gets the items.
Our charity team arranges the recipient before your event, and the materials ship from our own warehouse, so everything arrives on time.
What are the most popular charity team building events?
The charity events companies book with us most are Bike Build Donation®, Mini-Golf Build and Food Donation, Build-a-Guitar®, wheelchair and rollator builds, and care package programs like Operation Military Care. Each runs 1 to 2.5 hours for 30 to 1,000+ people, and we arrange the receiving charity before the event.
How do CSR-focused team building programs support community impact?
What your teams make stays in the community. A Bike Build Donation® hands new bikes, with helmets and locks, to children from a local charity, and sometimes the kids are in the room to collect them. Care packages go to service members, patients and schools.
We pick a recipient near your venue unless you name your own cause, and because every team finishes with a real item, your company knows exactly what it gave for its CSR or volunteer reporting.
Do charitable team building programs include donation logistics and planning?
Yes. Every charity program we run includes the donation work. We match the items to what the receiving organization needs, arrange a local recipient before your event, ship the materials from our own warehouse and get the finished items to the charity, either at a hand-off during the event or by delivery afterward.
You never have to contact the charity yourself, though you can choose one. Our charity team handles the coordination.
Who receives the donations?
Local and national charities arranged before the event: organizations serving overseas soldiers and veterans, schools and youth programs, unhoused people and families, children, and people with cognitive and mobility impairments. Featured partners include St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, HeroBox and Guitars 4 Vets. The full list is on our charitable partners page.
Can we choose the charity?
Yes. Pick one of our partners or tell us the cause you support and our charity team coordinates the hand-off. If you have no preference, we match a partner near your venue.
How large can a charity build be?
Build programs run for 30 to 1,000+ participants in teams of about 10. The largest on record put 3,500 people and more than 1,000 bikes in one room.
How long does a charity team building event take?
Bike Build Donation®, Operation Military Care and We Care for Schools run 1.5 to 2 hours; Build-a-Guitar® and Locate & Donate SmartHunt® run 2 to 2.5 hours; the charity game shows run 1 to 1.5 hours.
What does the venue need?
Roughly 25 square feet per person, indoors or outdoors, plus a display screen and a sound system for groups of 50 or more.

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