Fundraising Ideas Co-op
Fundraising is a challenge for all of us and these are the results of the poll we did for ideas to share. The contact information is on each one so you can contact the teacher directly for more information. My thanks to all who participated. Janet Belch, New Coordinator Mentor.
Donna Frantz: dfrantz@slcusd.org
1.
We raised over $10,000
by giving our Business Plan Presentation to
Business
organizations around town, i.e. Rotary, Kiwanis, Exchange Clubs, etc. It was easy and great presentation practice
for the kids.
Jeff Wood: jwood@guhsd.net
1.
Candy Sales
2.
Krispy Crème donuts and
Krispy Crème Cards.
3.
Car wash at
Walmart! Great moneymaker because of
the volume of cars. You need to book
weeks or even months in advance.
Brenda Nason: bnason@sandi.net
- “Our Queen of Fundraising”!
1.
Professional sports
ticket takers: We work with a staffing agency to
To
collect tickets at S.D. Charger games.
Anyone near a big city could do with any sport venue. Students get paid $35 for 4 hours of
easy/fun work.
2.
Avon Representative. I signed up
to be an Avon rep but have the
Students
do the actual sales. They earn 25% of
the sales, and the rest of the profit
goes into our VE general fund. I also
have the students help sort and input the orders. Anyone can contact me for more information. Note:
Avon has a fundraising program of just lotions and soaps, but I do the
whole catalog.
3.
Candy or food sales
that can be marked up 100%, such as
chips, and cookies.
4.
E-script through Vons. Everyone who
registers their Vons card or Visa, the group gets a % of sales. Works well with parents.
5.
Tupperware has a fundraising catalog
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6.
Car-Wash-a-Thon – A different slant – We get pledged support to pay us
for how many cars we wash. I have a
sample pledge form. We not only get the
money from the car wash, but also from the pledges. On rainy day one time, we made over $800 and only washed 8
cars!
7.
Auction Night - Our freshman and sophomore classes had a
tremendously successful auction night, where they got many donated prizes and
gifts, and then auctioned them off.
They raised $5600 in that one night, they got a local coffee shop to
donate the space and refreshments, and a brewery to donate wine and beer. Our counselor did a great job as auctioneer.
Teri Jones Santa Monica High School - terijones@earthlink.net
1.
Otis Spudmeyer
cookies: They provide the ovens for free as long as you purchase a minimum
amount throughout the year. We got food
service approval to sell during a long passing period when food service does
not sell. They also sell well after
school, when we are not in conflict with food service either. The profit is close to $40 per box of
cookies sold. It takes about 1 hour to
bake and bag the cookies. The school
has grown to look forward to our baking days.
Only draw back was we had to add to the electrical in our room, as the
breakers couldn’t handle the ovens.
2.
Sees candy sales: The $1.50
bars sell really well and you make 50% profit.
Get a combination of almond, plan and toffee and the students mix up the
boxes so everyone has an assortment.
3.
The Real
Entrepreneurship Project: Each year students must complete a REAL
entrepreneurship project. If they work
in groups, the profit must equal $50 per person or more. It takes several weeks, with mini business
plans, approvals, and procurements.
Students then write up a summary at the end, and they usually earn close
to the %50 per person assigned. I often
have to front the capital for lower income students who cannot afford to buy
product, but have always been paid back out of their earnings.
4.
Business
Communication Assignment: Students must find a sponsor for our
business the first semester, we cover persuasive communication and business
letters and students ask a local business for mentorship and financial
support. I approve all letters before
they are sent. We usually raise at
least a couple of hundred dollars this way and always end up with a new guest
speaker or mentor.
Polly Farina – farinap@benicia.k12.ca.us
1.
Raffle at Registration
and Back-to-school night – We raffle off a Homecoming ticket; a prom ticker, a
grad night ticket, a yearbook, a school sweatshirt, etc.
2.
Run concessions for a
sport – we do Basketball; track meets or a wrestling match.
3.
Car washes, pizza
take-overs, Chevy’s takeover
4.
Hire- a- Slave: We offer student labor for things like City
Employee Recognition Dinner – we bus tables and wash dishes; we have put
together binders for a local printer; set up booths for the city Craft Fair,
etc.
5.
Mardi Gras Beads- sold
in our school colors and sold them for Spirit Week. We sold out in the 1st hour.
Lee Ben-Kinney - miss_bk@hotmail.com
1.
Company Calendars made
by our company featuring our business partners and this year’s activities. Out Student Store, car washes and do you
know that Beach Clean-ups pay $500!
Tamara Combs - Tamara_Combs@khsd.k12.ca.us
1.
California Cookbooks
2.
Costco Pizza ($2 per
slice) –club noon sales
3.
Corporate sponsors
4.
Candy Sales – big money
maker
Hugo Otaolo – San
Marcos High School
1.
Homecoming
Carnival: We called for donations from
florists to donate roses and we managed to get around 40 donated. Sold with a card for $2 each
2.
Halloween Goodie
Grams: Filled Halloween bags with candy
then attached a card and helium balloon and attached card. They could be bought by students and
delivered to anyone they wish during 1st period. $2
3.
Thanksgiving
Raffle: Class donated items that could
make a nice Thanksgiving dinner, such as:
mashed potatoes; stuffing; candies, cornbread mix; etc. Then we gave everyone in the class 20
tickets that they had to sell for 1 dollar.
$450.00
4.
Valentines Day Mooch
Weddings: The annual mock wedding booth
is set up during lunch the week of Valentines Day. This is an opportunity for student couples at out school to
participate in “virtual” wedding. We
have and arch, veil and bouquet. The
couples would receive a wedding certificate, a snapshot photo and rings. $3.00 made $400
5.
Biggest fundraiser by
far is our Virtual Enterprise student store run out of our classroom. The fundraising department supervises this
store, but everyone has a time where they have to help sell. We sell a variety of snacks like chips,
cookies, candy bars, Costco muffins, microwavable soups and popcorn; water and
Hansen’s sodas. Our store makes
about $180 per day!
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Phillip Ureno – Kerman High - calkid49@yahoo.com
1.
Year-long breakfast VE
fundraiser – I was able to get permission from the school where we sold
doughnuts 50 cents from a local baker and the following from Costco: Water, Muffins; Rice Crispy Treats; cookies,
Capri Suns etc. Not much competition
from other clubs that early in the morning…
2.
School Fairs combo
plate: Hotdog or chilidog, Capri Sun, chips and Rice Crispy Treat for $4,
Churros for $1. Easy work and sells out
every time. Just have the school kitchen
warn up the oven and have 3 kids cooking, one kid as the runner and 3 kids
selling. You’ll wrap up the Churros in
foil to transport back to the sale.
Alicia Mijangos : amijangos@avhsd.org -
Dianna Ariani: dariani@ssfmail.ssfusd.k12.ca.us
1. Brought “Jamba Juice” to our campus to sell at lunch and nutrition twice
per week. It is great salesmanship
practice and we go through all of the percent of P/L calculations each time.
Marge Ansel: mansel@willowsunified.org
1.
Aluminum can
drive
2.
School lanyards are a great seller.
Sold for $10 to adults and $7 to students. Our cost $5 each.
3.
Sold prepared pizzas and bread sticks (Dominos)
4.
Main moneymaker was selling
spirit clothing for the school.
Made $1687!
Melinda McClure: melindamc@charter.net from Phoenix H.S. in
Oregon!
1.Christmas
luminaries – takes a small investment for paper bags, a bag
Have sand, and votive candles. Decorate the bags with cutouts, sand in
The bottom to weight down the bag and
hold the candles in place.
2. Christmas shopping night at the Mall - Our local shopping Mall
Worked
with non-profits for a Christmas shopping evening. Sold
Tickets
for $5 each for this shopping event and it was all “money in the bank” for the
non-profits. Mall provided raffles and
goodies…
Linda Jean/John Voth: rlykng@msn.com
1.
Grand Opening Day
Lunches – bar-b-qued hamburgers and hotdogs
Right
outside our classroom door. Plate lunch
with either hotdog or hamburger with shops and a drink sold for 2.50. Bought all supplies at Costco, then all the
VE students brought desserts which we sold for 75 cents each, or if they bought
it with the plate lunch, 50 cents. Made
$350.00
2.
Wrote letters to
businesses for donations – One sent us $1000, and the
smaller donations really added up…
3.
Car Wash – held off
campus so it didn’t count as our “1 club”
Fundraiser
per year.
Elaine Mar: Elaine_Mar@cjuhsd.k12.ca.us
1.
Presale Car Washes
2.
Candy Sales
3.
Business Cards Sales –
professional business cards for staff
4.
Bowl-a-thon— pledge for
pins
Glen Dumas:
gdumas@valverd.edu
1.
Cafeteria serving – Our
class earns $20 per day working with the
cafeteria serving lunch. We work 2 or 3 weeks per month, earning
around $300 per month.
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2.
Talent Show – We charged
$5 which included: 1 slice pizza, 1 soda,
A ticket to the homecoming game and
entrance into the talent show.
Earned $400.
3.
Business Service Club
presentations: $5,000.00
Laura Meyers:
lmeyers@ycusd.k12.ca.us
1.
See’s Candy sales at
Christmas
2.
Fundraising nights with
Pap Murphy’s Pizza – Made 20% profit
3.
Business Presentations
to service clubs and local businesses
4.
School wide fundraising
lunch events, like International Day, Homecoming Carnival etc.
Kyle Robinson - Kylebo41@aol.com
1.
Full size monthly
calendar available in different
themes and we
Have
the virtual enterprise information of our VE company custom printed on it. We make a good profit.
The company to contact is COMBA. www.comdacalendars.com