Promotional Campaign Ideas

• DECA diamond scavenger hunt
• Decorate members locks during birthdays or special events
• Create your very own chapter promo video
• Share DECA’s promo video on chapter and personal social media accounts
• Reach out to past chapter officers, thanking them for their service
• Create flyers to hand out to students or hang up in your school’s hallways
• Reach out to local middle schools and ask if you can conduct informational meetings on DECA and CTE

Community Service Campaign Ideas

• Host a 5k walk/run with proceeds going towards a needy cause
• Volunteer at local homeless shelters
• Wrap presents in the mall
• Host a DECA dance with proceeds going towards a needy cause
• Assist other organizations in your community or school
• Sponsor a clothing or food drive
• Create DECA donations jars to be set up at events
• Volunteer time at retirement homes
• Teacher appreciation breakfast

Global Entrepreneurship Week Ideas

• Ask local business men/women to speak to your chapter
• Share entrepreneurship facts on social media
• Use school store to promote G.E.W.
• Participate in IDEA Challenge
• Post locker signs on DECA members locks promoting G.E.W.
• Host a DECA pizza party and invite local entrepreneurs to share their stories

Membership Campaign Ideas

• Setup a booth at freshman class orientation
• Invite non-DECA members to a fun DECA activity
• Challenge current members to talk to 3 non-DECA members each about the
• benefits of DECA
• Host a new member pizza party meeting
• Register last year’s seniors as alumni members
• Invite chapter sponsors or member parents to become professional members

Advocacy Campaign

• Create a video on how DECA has impacted members in a positive way, share with school officials and government officials
• Promote DECA in middle schools, host fun events to get kids excited about DECA
• Present and talk about DECA at a school board meeting
• Create a DECA fact sheet about your chapter and share on social media and with government officials
• Have members write letters or create postcards to send to government officials
• Arrange a meeting to discuss DECA with local legislators or the city mayor