Inpired by the school fundraising thread---what are some GOOD school fundraisers??

[Ilovefozzie]

The last several years (I only did it for the last two) my daughter's preschool sold Little Ceasar's Pizza. They do pizza, cheesebread, cookies, pies. All Little Ceasar's. One box of pizza is about 12 bucks but the box makes 3 pizzas and the cheese/garlic/cinnamon bread was also 3 servings per box. It was the only fundraiser the preschool needed and it made several meals REALLY easy.


jenn

 

[newtowdw1]

Our pre-school sells candy bars. Very easy for me as I teach high school and could wipe out a box in a day and a half.

The wrestling team (husband coaches, I'm den-mother ) does can/bottle drives. NYstate has a returnable fee, and we get .055 for each. We can raise about $600 in 4 hours. It's grubby, but for an investment of hot dogs and chips, the boys work very hard.

I like the spirit wear; I alway buy my kids a Tshirt.

We have a very poor district, and were flooded in June. Over 1200 families were displaced and their homes are still unlivable. So most fund raising has gone to them lately. We did Neighbor Aid. For $35 a ticket you went to a locally owned clam bake spot and ate. They donated all the money to the flood victims. We couldn't use our tickets, so we gave them to the sellers who gave them to the flooded folks. They sure deserve a good time if anyone does!

 

[Teresa Pitman]

Not for a school, but a volunteer group I belong to did this as a fundraiser. We arranged with a large local nursery that was known for its high-quality poinsettias for a discount if we brought in bulk orders. People could choose from different colours of poinsettias (pink, white, red, marbled, jingle bells) and get either one plant in a pot, or three plants in a large pot. We made quite a good percentage on each plant. We took the orders at the end of October, and then we'd have a pick up day in early December, when we picked up all the plants and delivered them. These were very easy to sell, as most people like to have a poinsettia during the holidays, and people liked the variety and the high quality of the plants. They were quite lovely.

Teresa

 

[badblackpug]

I hate all the buy overpriced crap from catalog fundraisers, but I did think that some of the ideas posted were great.

Coin drop where coins were collected in a large container in each class
box tops/soup labels (we own Cambpell soup stock so it is win/win
Fall festival sounded great, too

The ones I like that our school has done are the following

"School cookbook" Each student submits a legit recipe and the school has the book bound at a discount and sold at a profit. At our school we tried to make it fun by allowing K and 1st graders to submit their own "recipes" (not from their parents) and interspersed it with the legit recipes

Candy bars are always a hit and easy to sell

Snack bake sale. Each parent submits a baked snack (cookies, brownies cupcakes, etc) and they are sold by the PTA at lunch for 50c a piece.

This may only be understood by people in the Philadelphia area, but, a hoagie sale. The students sell coupons for hoagies that are redeemable at any WaWa (a chain of deli/convenience stores in Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware)

We try to avoid the "donation" thing as many parents were unable to come up with the prerequisite amount of cash. We wanted to avoid embarassment

 

[magiroux]

My dd preschool does a "basket" raffle every year, each class has a theme and parents are asked to bring in a donated item relating to the theme. Then they sell tickets to raffle off each basket.

Our PTO makes a FORTUNE with this one. The theme is divided by grades, and we end up with about 50 baskets to raffle. It is a great time getting the parents together to assemble the baskets. The only cost for this is the baskets, which can be had pretty cheaply at the Christmas Tree Shop/Job lot.

Also, one year the Krispy Kreme fundraiser pick up was coordinated with movie night. The PTO ordered 25 extra boxes of donuts to sell the night of the event. They sold out within 1/2 hour of the event.

 

[lnh'smom]

this is the first year I've ever heard of this program - and I like it! It reminds me of Market Day... buying things I can actually use and giving money back to the school at the same time

In fact, I need to remember to order some Uno's gift cards for our trip - we always eat at the one over at the Crossroads

We do scrip also at our school. Since we are a parochial school, the first 10% back automatically goes to the church. The school gets 50% and then the parents get the rest of the 40%. They don't actually give us the money, they put it into accounts for us and then every six months, they give us a form telling us what we earned and then asks where we want the money to go. For instance our children's registration fees, or tuition. Lots of the older people who don't have kids in the school anymore choose to put it in the tuition assitance fund for people that can't afford the tuition payments. I like it just cause we don't have to buy crap we don't want and both the school and the parents benefit from it. Over 18 months, we have earned almost $200 to put towards tuition. Not bad in my estimation.

 

[lnh'smom]

This year we are selling Mackinaw Island fudge. Seems to be going great. Church did the cook book thing. Got local merchants to put ad in and it covered the cost of printing. So Everything sold was pure profit.

Denise

I wish I lived near you! I can't think of anything better than Mackinaw Fudge!!!