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| 159.1 | flowering bulbs | GRANPA::LIROBERTS | | Wed Jun 10 1992 08:21 | 18 |
| My son's school had a spring fundraiser. The sold Easter and other
candy, but the best thing was that they sold flowering bulbs and
plants. The school made a profit of $8,000. They were all very
excited because this was the amount that the state had cut from the
school's budget this year.
They also offered prizes like a cook-out with the prinicpal, a coupoun
book of things that could be redeemed at school (i.e. a free pencil, a
day with no homework, a free recess). These are things that really
didn't cost the school anything. They also got 7-11 to donate coupouns
for free Big Gulp Sodas and buy on hot dog get one free.
It really worked great.
Good luck!!!!
Lillian
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| 159.2 | | CUPMK::PHILBROOK | Customer Publications Consulting | Wed Jun 10 1992 10:11 | 1 |
| There's a fundraising notesfile. I believe it's on DPE::FUNDRAIS.
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| 159.3 | | TNPUBS::STEINHART | Laura | Wed Jun 10 1992 10:40 | 13 |
| I've bit my tongue and tried not to divert down a rathole, but I just
can't hold out.
"We'll know society has its priorities straight when Washington
allocates billions for education and the Pentagon has to hold a bake
sale to buy a new bomber."
Please don't start a discussion on this folks ( -;) ) but I wanted to
share a laugh with you.
Back to fundraising technique...
L
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| 159.4 | Adventures In Learning Reading Program | DEVMKO::CULLEN | | Wed Jun 10 1992 14:02 | 13 |
| Discovery Toys has a new fundraising program. It is basically a
reading incentive program where each classroom reads books, gets
sponsors and collects money. It is expected that each classroom will
raise enough money to earn the New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia.
Depending on the agreement with the DT Consultant, excess monies can be
used to purchase other DT products or used a the discretion of the
classroom teacher.
I thought this was a great program. Our school never seems to have
enough encyclopedias to go around when classes begin to do research
projects.
Donna
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| 159.5 | | FSDEV::MGILBERT | GHWB-Anywhere But America Tour 92 | Wed Jun 10 1992 14:52 | 2 |
| World Book has a similar program. Sell so many encyclopedias and get a set for
the school.
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| 159.6 | | DELNI::BRYDON | | Thu Jun 11 1992 10:46 | 18 |
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My niece/nephew schools held two very successful and fun fundraisers
this year.
The had a Valentine's Father(Male relative/friend)/Daughter dance and
a Mother(Female relative/friend) Pancake breakfast.
The expenses were covered by area business donations, all the K-6
grade schools in the town participated. There were nice door prizes
from gift baskets to oil changes to ski lift tickets. Kids made
decorations for these events in their art classes.
Because almost everything was donated, profits were the tickets at
the door. Mothers did the work for the Father event and Fathers did
the work for the mother event.
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| 159.7 | Thanks for the ideas!!! | BOOKIE::SRITE | | Fri Jun 12 1992 09:01 | 23 |
| Thanks everyone for the ideas -- they all sound good. We plan to
meet next week to make some decisions and I'm thrilled to have
some more good ideas to offer. I especially like the idea of
the dance and pancake breakfast because our school has a very low
percentage of parent participation. One of my reasons for volunteering
for fundraising was to try to do things that raised money while
getting parents acquainted and into the schools. The dance and
breakfast sound like a perfect match for this!
I also like the idea of selling spring bulbs and plants -- this is
a nice change from the traditional candy sales and something I'd
love to purchase. I'll also follow up on the encyclopedia idea
and see how great a need there is for this. I do like the idea
of having fundraising linked to a specific purpose.
Mike, thanks so much for the pointer to the notesfile -- I never
would have thought to look for this! I've scanned it and come
up with a couple ideas, but I like the ideas in this note the
best for our school's needs. So, everyone please keep the ideas
coming! I really appreciate the help!
Thanks,
Pat
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| 159.8 | | FSDEV::MGILBERT | GHWB-Anywhere But America Tour 92 | Mon Jun 15 1992 12:03 | 17 |
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Here's a couple we've used successfully:
1. Book Fair - at elementary and middle school level - you buy from
wholesaler and mark up.
2. Holiday wrap and giftware - In the fall take orders from Parents,
friends, neighbors. Delivery is timed around both sets of Holidays,
Xmas and Chanukah.
3. school sponsored activities at town-wide functions - Dunk booth
featuring local Pols.
4. New this year. "kiss the pig" contest. Local luminaries were
nominated last September. Voting costs $1.00 per vote. The winner
will be required to smooch with "hulk hoggin", a rather large sow,
donated by a local farmer.
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| 159.9 | | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Thu Aug 03 1995 20:48 | 6 |
| There was a conference mentioned some time ago, DPE::FUNDRAISING - this node
no longer seems to exist. Is there another, similar conference around
somewhere?
Chele
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| 159.10 | | CSC32::P_SO | Get those shoes off your head! | Fri Aug 04 1995 08:32 | 8 |
|
Chele,
1This isn't a file but notes 165, 227, 230 and 409 in the
NOTED::SCOUTING notesfile are on fundraising and may help.
Pam
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| 159.11 | | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Sun Aug 06 1995 19:17 | 7 |
| Thanks Pam,
The P & F at the school are trying to raise money *fast* for a kiln
- a chocolate drive is now under way... at least it's Mars bars this time,
Maltezers are becoming _very_ old.
Chele
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| 159.12 | | POWDML::VENTURA | Bad spellers of the world, UNTIE!! | Mon Aug 07 1995 16:19 | 5 |
| Chele..
what type of school is it? Elementary? High School?
H
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| 159.13 | | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Tue Aug 08 1995 00:24 | 10 |
| Infants/Primary school - ie K -> 6 (I don't know if that is U.S. elementary?)
It's a _very_ small community/church based school - 125 kids approx. (Which is
_really_ nice - everyone knows everyone - and cares)
The SCOUT notes were interesting, but the age group makes most of the
suggestions there unworkable.
Chele
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| 159.14 | | WRKSYS::MACKAY_E | | Tue Aug 08 1995 10:23 | 11 |
|
When I was a kid, the school I went to had an annual
fundraiser that benefit the hospital that the nuns
also ran. The kids would make bookmarks (kids drawing
stuff on paper, laminated, punch-holed and tie with ribbon),
tie dye T-shirts and scarfs, handcrafts, etc, and the
stuff would be sold. I find that more meaningful and fun
than the generic chocolate and wrapping paper fundraisers.
Eva
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| 159.15 | | STAR::EVANS | | Tue Mar 25 1997 17:01 | 8 |
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When I was a freshman in high school, we sold panty hose as a fund-raiser.
Several people thought it sounded a little nuts, but we raised WAY more money
faster than any other class before us. What was great was that most families
were willing to buy and sometimes in surprising volumes. We also had an
arrangement where we could return whatever we didn't sell.
Jim
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