Fundraisers...ugh!

[eeyoresmountainpals]

Originally Posted by

WatchinCaptKangaroo

Forgive me if this is a stupid question but...

Why doesn't the PTA/PTO sent out a letter at the beginning of the year stating in leiu of fundraisers they are asking every family to contribute x amount (not per student, just per family). If they asked each family to contribute $20 or $30 for the year and they had 500 students they would get $10k. You can't tell me that these fundraisers clear that much for the school.

It's a nice thought but our school is so small...we've got less than 150 students in K-8. Out of those 150 students there are less than 100 families. If each family gave $30 that's only $3,000. We usually manage to fundraise about $8,000 - $10,000 a year but it's a LOT of work. Plus, we're in a very rural country area and a lot of the area is below the poverty level and, unfortunately, about a third of our families would not be able to send in $30! So, back to fundraising!

BTW - Anyone want to buy a raffle ticket???

 

[the kabuki]

I just saw a new fundraiser that I'm going to be suggesting to our PTO. It's a National Coney Island Kit- if memory serves it is $29, has the hot dogs, chili, buns, mustard, onion-that you can prepare at home. Believe it had enough for 16-24 coney dogs.

I also don't mind the Little Ceasers' pizza kits. There frozen with all the ingriendents to make 3 pizzas. the kids' like to make these at home.

 

[georgina]

My DS's school is right now doing the only fund raiser I've ever enjoyed. They are using marketday.com and you can place an order every month. (It is a year long fund raiser) It's groceries! So I bought burgers and chicken breasts and string cheese - for just about what I'd pay at the store - sometimes less. And the school keeps 10 percent! I order on-line and will go to the school to pick up the box. I highly recommend it.

Naturally no sooner had I thought the school made a great choice than home came the catalog o' cr*p. I bought one sceneted candle so he could help his class get a good percentage of participation but that's it. And they had the that pump up assembly which is terrible IMHO.

We do Market Day too. When I ran the school fund raiser I refused to have those kick-off assemblies, and the prizes the kids got were sportswear with the district logo on it. The school got a lower percentage of the sales, but the hats and T-shirts were better awards at least. DD was mad at me because I would not let her bug the neighbors to buy the stuff this year. Only GS cookies and the BS popcorn should be sold door-to-door in my opinion.

 

[georgina]

So please consider giving money-your fundraiser won't look down on that-they will be thrilled! To make $100, a fundraiser basically has to sell about $700-$1000 worth of stuff....

Most of our fundraisers have 40-50% profit, so we only have to sell $200-250 to get $100. Of course it is overpriced junk...