School Fundraising Ideas - How to decide?

There are a lot of fundraisers out there.  I've run across mattress fundraisers, peanut-free fundraisers, travel fundraisers and no-bake sale fundraisers.

There is no shortage of school fundraising ideas!

There's a million products and events out there turned into fundraisers of some sort or another. 

Everyone wants to find the newest school fundraising idea and you do too.  So, you're left having to sort through all kinds of info to find that perfect fundraiser.

So, you're sorting through all the junk to find that perfect fundraiser for your school or group and things are confusing.  How will you decide?

My 30 second advice:

I know you'll have lots of feelings.  Just remember that there are numbers behind the fundraisers too.  Real numbers like how much you will make with each fundraiser that you consider.

Figure out what makes you the most, with the feelings you like and you've got a winning combination.

Ok, until next time!

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Top-Dollar Elementary School Fundraisers - SIMPLIFIED.

Here is the scoop on top-dollar elementary school fundraisers - only this is the overly simplified version:


The most profitable Fall fundraisers for elementary schools are:

1) Fall gift & wrap fundraising catalogs
2) Frozen cookie dough fundraisers
3) School-wide auctions

Hey, I could go on and on but this keeps to my simplified rule for this post.  I just don't think that Fall fundraising gets any better than the above 3 when it comes to elementary schools.

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School Fundraising Ideas - Setting up a fundraiser display

There are a lot of ways to get the word out on a fundraiser and as much as I would like to believe every school promotes their fall fundraiser with vigor, I know many don't - but they could.

Regardless of if you are a school that promotes or doesn't, I just want to share the photos of this display from Roxbury Elementary and maybe you will realize that you can do this too.

Maybe not in the exactly same way, maybe not as artistically and maybe not as good - this is after-all, clearly an artistic display.

Still, just maybe you can think in terms of what will take your school fundraiser up a notch or two like Roxbury Elementary did last week. What can you come up with?

Setting up a display with care let's everyone know that something is important.  We all know that things that appear important often are treated as such. Clearly, Roxbury Elementary school should be commended for their efforts here.

What most people don't realize is that this type of promotion can increase a fundraiser to the extent that other fundraisers are no longer needed at the school and who wouldn't want to fundraise LESS!

So, It's an interesting concept as far as school fundraising ideas go and also product fundraisers.  The moral of the story: do less fundraising and do it well just like Roxbury shows us here first-hand.  This is the type of fundraising effort that creates success and this is proof that it certainly can be done.

CONGRATULATIONS ROXBURY ES!