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To earn $3,400 was a BIG undertaking. We realized early on that the two of us selling candy bars just wasn't going to make it. Especially since everyone is on a low carb diet. So we don't recommend doing that kind of fundraiser. That might get you a t-shirt in Washington if you even get there. We did a variety of things.
My parents teach driver’s education so they ran a couple of safe driving programs for different community groups and let us do a pitch before the classes about safe driving and JrNYLC. That helped to get our fundraising pot started - around $500.
For our next project we tried to do something that might bring in a little more money: Poinsettias…So we placed an order for the plants, on faith that we could sell them, and then went door to door, office to office selling. We bought the plants at Sam's Club 8 for $34.00 and sold the plants 2 for $15, 1 for $8. That worked pretty well and before we knew it they were all sold. 28 cases worth. 224 plants.
We ran a Penmanship Contest at our school at Parent Teacher Meetings. We bought really nice ergonomically correct pens from National Pen Company - buy one hundred and get one hundred free. We sold all of them for $1.00 each. We had people sign a notebook and selected the person with the best penmanship skill. We put up posters to let them know what good penmanship was all about and than gave a prize to the winner.
We hosted a Super Bowl Pool where family members and friends bought squares and we picked numbers for each square. The person with the winning square split the money and the rest went to the fundraiser. That was a lot of fun and of course there was disappointment that not everyone could win. But there was a lot of cheering going on. Two hundred squares were sold.
We collected Box Tops for Education…We e-mailed everyone we knew and had them e-mail people to save the box tops. We got box tops from as far away as California.
Our biggest fundraiser and a profitable one was our Golf Invitational Tournament. We got area sponsors to donate $20 per golfer and we invited 24 middle school students to the golf event.
The golf course gave us a deal, provided a couple of golf pros to go around with us and they also gave us a few lessons. Afterwards we had a buffet lunch. It was open to 7th graders and we had a very good time. If we knew that it was going to be that easy to get sponsors we would have tried that idea early on and got more sponsors…so, if you want to do a fundraiser that not only helps the project but gets others involved this is a good project idea. Everyone had a good time and golfers from local businesses didn't mind throwing in a $20 bill to sponsor a kid to golf.
Lastly, I wrote a short story with illustrations and Joe helped with the drawings, about conquering one's fear. Someone suggested that I print it up in book form and sell it for a fundraiser project. A local publisher read it and liked it and said he would take it on, print it and get it bound for us. So we will soon have 100 copies of this book and will try and sell them for $5.00 each before the end of school. Would you like to buy a dozen? They make great door prizes.
Download CYLC's "Guide to Fundraising via the News Media." (Adobe Acrobat Reader required.)
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