Fundraising for school booster club

[2plus2]

Not exactly Disney but you all are so wise and full of great ideas thought maybe you could help. I am head of the school booster club and we are working on a big project. Any ideas for raising $$. We dont want to do the door to door sellin cany and goods ect route. We have already had a spaghetti dinner and silent auction, need new fun ideas that will profit .

 

[karebear1]

What grades?

 

[2plus2]

High school ,sports boosters. But our school has pk-12 so we could gear toward any group

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

Homemade pies!!! Sounds crazy.... but we sold 350-500 pies twice a year - Easter and Thanksgiving. Take orders so there are no extras. Buy everything in bulk..... assembly line..... fresh apples/canned peach and cherry filling.

Put each pie in a 2 gallon ziplock and freeze. Deliver with baking instructions. We sold for $8 each and made as much as 50% profit..... all depends on getting local stores to cut you a deal on your materials.

Usually if you have enough people helping you can get all of the pies done in one long day. We did it at school.... used their HUGE mixer for the dough, and let the pies sit in the walk in freezer overnight so we knew they were frozen solid before we delivered them.

PM me if you have any questions - this has worked here in a small town for several years in a row - and now people are asking to preorder before we even start taking orders!!!

 

[onlyoneforme]

Chuck E. Cheese has Fund Raising nights for schools that they will donate 10% of the sales for that evening to your school. No work, they send all the promotional stuff, you pass it out, kids show up and buy pizza and token packages and you get the $. Painless.

Also how about a Community Cookbook? Ask the "Celebrities" (staff members ) of the schools, for example, for their favorite recipes and make a booklet to sell for a small amount. Adding digital photos of the meal is a great idea as well!

 

[disneychrista]

check out escrip.com
Also if you have a Albertsons in your area you can sign up for their community partners program and get a % of the sales that the members spend.

 

[marcyinPA]

Our parent teacher organization made a bundle this Fall selling a coupon book called Enjoy the City. It's not available in all locations, but it might be in yours. The books sold for $10 each and we made $5 on each book. It is full of buy one get one free offers from local and chain restaurants such as Damons, Fuddruckers, Perkins, Bennigans, etc. plus coupons for bowling, museums etc.

They sold like hotcakes!

 

[marcyinPA]

Chuck E. Cheese has Fund Raising nights for schools that they will donate 10% of the sales for that evening to your school. No work, they send all the promotional stuff, you pass it out, kids show up and buy pizza and token packages and you get the $. Painless.

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Our local Friendlys restaurant does this too...maybe the Friendlys chain does this nationwide?

 

[eeyore45]

our school's cheerleaders made a ton of money by making signs for the front yards! Picture a 3ft or 4t by same sq, painted in school colors (background for us silver, words/school mascot is a claw in blue outlined in black) the "stick" that holds the sign is painted same colors, but the kicker is each person that buys the sign "advertises" a sport, or club.. per season... so the sign is $10, each "stick" is $5... My oldest son was a 3 sport athlete, he had the main sign then a stick for hockey, Lacrosse, and Cross Country. My 2nd son, had a stick for Swimming, BAND, and Water Polo... others include band, "interact club" ( a social club that does community service!)

 

[polkadotladybug]

What about a large rummage or yard sale? Hold it indoors so weather isn't an issue - get parents to donate items as well as solicit grandparents and people in the community -

 

[JodyTG]

I know that you mentioned not wanting to do door-to-door selling, but have you ever thought about having an Avon fundraiser? Lot's of people use Avon anyway and it's a way to split the profits with an Avon lady. Just give a rep a call and I'm sure that they'd love to work with you.

I've never done one myself, but the one that I've heard of was a great success. You can either use the whole book or just pick out certain items to sell. They used the health/wellness stuff and bath and body items. The organization cleared over $1000.00 and that's not counting what the rep made.

 

[Southern4sure]

The school my kids attended in Alabama did this and it worked very well. The school was also K-12th grade. It works like a silent auction. Each class "room mom" was given a theme..like bar b q, chocolate, hawiian, Disney, restaurant certs., perfume, baby basket and etc. The students in each class would bring items to place in their class basket. Some of these baskets were really huge! Give about 2 weeks to collect the items and during the two weeks, hype up the sale of these baskets. Set a date and time, (try for a time after school but during a sports game at the school. lots of people to bid on the baskets). We had 15 baskets to auction off and some went for several hundred dollars.

We wrapped the baskets in pretty paper and lots of pretty color ribbons. Some of the baskets themselves were to big to wrap. I cant remember the exact amount raised but itwas somewhere around $2,500. and exceeded our expectations.

Good Luck!

Southern4sure

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

It's probably too late for this year but you may want to consider it for the future. Our local Boy Scouts take orders and sell flowers at Christmas and Easter. They also do the same with bedding plants later in the spring (too early here to put anything in the ground). They buy from a local nursery and take on a profit for themselves. The sales are usually pretty successful.

 

[ybcart7]

Our PTA has made over $2000 cutting box tops -- no selling involved just getting people to participate.....

 

[canwegosoon]

Our school does a reverse raffle. Tickets were a $100. You have a 1 in 20 chance of winning at least $200. Every batch of 20 tickets 1 person was picked. They won $200 dollars, then all the 1/20 winners went into a drawing and they picked one winner, and she won $10,000. It was very profitable. I believe there were only 400 tickets. I believe the school made over $20,000.

 

[MEM]

The school my kids attended in Alabama did this and it worked very well. The school was also K-12th grade. It works like a silent auction. Each class "room mom" was given a theme..like bar b q, chocolate, hawiian, Disney, restaurant certs., perfume, baby basket and etc. The students in each class would bring items to place in their class basket. Some of these baskets were really huge! Give about 2 weeks to collect the items and during the two weeks, hype up the sale of these baskets. Set a date and time, (try for a time after school but during a sports game at the school. lots of people to bid on the baskets). We had 15 baskets to auction off and some went for several hundred dollars.

We wrapped the baskets in pretty paper and lots of pretty color ribbons. Some of the baskets themselves were to big to wrap. I cant remember the exact amount raised but itwas somewhere around $2,500. and exceeded our expectations.

Good Luck!

Southern4sure

My daughter's elementary school just did very much the same thing, in conjunction with the annual spaghetti dinner. Rather than an auction, the baskets were raffled off. One basket idea I really liked was called "Family Fun" and included board games, popcorn, Blockbuster gift cards, and even a table-top s'mores maker! The total raised was about $1,000 but it was only grades K-5.

 

[2plus2]

awesome ideas- Thanks

 

[Maureenmouse]

My daughter's elementary school just did very much the same thing, in conjunction with the annual spaghetti dinner. Rather than an auction, the baskets were raffled off. One basket idea I really liked was called "Family Fun" and included board games, popcorn, Blockbuster gift cards, and even a table-top s'mores maker! The total raised was about $1,000 but it was only grades K-5.

The middle school that I teach at did a basket silent auction too. Each Team or class had a theme and we took bids for the baskets. Our school made over $1,000. That was only grades 6 to 8. This idea seems to be popular and work well.

 

[CarolA]

Flamingos.....

You put them in the yard with a sign saying...."You have been flocked. For a donation of X we will fly to a friend call xxxx. Made a few thousand pretty easy. (and this was just a few girls)

 

[mrp4352]

We've done well with Bingo in the past. Get prizes donated (from local merchants or the students). We did $2/card or 3 for $5. One time we did a Let's Make a Deal theme - every 3-4 games we would declare a "Deal game". The winner could choose the prize they new or the prize that was behind the curtain or under the box. We did it in conjunction with a bake sale.