Fundraising Ideas?

Carol Churchill

April 23, 20070 found this helpful

I suggest you do yard work/run errands/babysit/shop, especially for the elderly and single parents who may need the extra help. Try a fixed rate per hour and make sure you render an efficient and effective service, so that you build a good name. Open a bank account and make sure you receive the highest possible interest to add to you savings.
What a pity I cannot hire you to clean up my yard:)
Good Luck!!!

Tammy

April 25, 20070 found this helpful

I was president of my daughter's chorus group's Booster Club and one thing we did to raise money was for each of the students to write to family members/friends/members of their church asking for a donation. In the letter, they described the trip, the benefits to be gained from the trip, and thanked them in advance for the donation. It worked! Give it a try!

How about doing a dinner (something inexpensive like spaghetti) with a silent auction of items you got donated from local businesses, art galleries, parents, etc. My neice is going to Ireland to compete in the World Irish Dance Competition and this is how her group raised their money. It worked really well.

To earn the rest of her portion here are some things she's done:

She had a garage sale at home with stuff donated from everyone she knows - she went and got it all and cleaned it, marked it, and did the sale herself

She has gone to the downtown area of her city during the weekend nights (with Dad/Mom as escort) and set up a little dance demonstration with a jar for donations. Since she also plays the violin, she's done that as well. People walking around from restaurants and bars have stopped and enjoyed her performances and she's earned up to $100 per night.

She has babysat and held workshops to teach younger girls how to babysit and make kits that they take with them. She charged them $10 each but they got the class and their first job through her.

In our city, curbs need to be painted with the house number on them so emergency vehicles can identify the address. She went around to new developments and did this for $15 per home. She made quite a bit of money doing this.

Hope these ideas help!

Besides bake sales, car washes and silent auctions, you can have what is called "trivia" night. Get donated items as prizes and incorporate the silent auction also. Our tables sat eight people at $10 each, so that was $80 a table plus whatever was earned from the silent auction. Sometimes you can use your donated items and raffle tickets at a local baseball or other type of "ball" game. Just have the announcer read off the winning ticket number. To get donated items I had 4-5 people take letters A-G, H-L, M-Q, S-Z and make calls to business in the telephone book. Or you can divide the callers by type of business.

We just finished a project of selling soy candles as a fundraiser and it seemed to work well. You not only get something for yourself but you make pretty good money in return.

One thing we do is have the parents who can, sell bags of snacks at their workplace. Buy the big box of chips or pretzels at the grocery store and sell the individual bags for 50 cents. The cost per bag starts at about 20 cents buying them this way. It doesnt sound like much but each parent has been able to sell about $10.00 or more a week. Over the course of a year that is over $500 per parent even if they cant all help out it adds up!!! The coworkers welcome an inexpensive snack and the kids make out as well.

around here they have car washes!you could also have a bake sale flea market and do heavy advertising using poster board all over town. you could also advertise to take donations for it so the items sold are free to you..