This Fall we've asked our Fund-raising Company not to use their prize packages, and offer a spirit wear (through a local company) incentive instead. They have been willing to work with us on this. Also, we are purchasing a Nintendo Wii for the top seller and offering an extra Recess time for the class with the highest participation.
<font color="#"darkorange"">“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.â€</font> - Eleanor Roosevelt
The magazine company we used last year had the money machine for kids who reached a certain sales level and they received tickets for every so many dollars raised that they could use to purchase items from a "store" the rep set up. Anyone who participated could easily get some kind of reward.
We did the top seller and a guest (they choose their parent) got to have a special lunch (not the school lunch) with the Principal. The Principal liked having lunch delivered, and the student had fun.
The company we are using has a money machine - top seller in each class gets a trip in. We also are doing a night stay at a local hotel/waterpark drawing for anyone that sells over $XX amount.
We're going with a company that offers these rewards but you could do it on your own:
each kid that sells five items gets a lunch bag with the school name on it
each kid that turns in their order form, turns money in early, sells more than ten items...gets put into a drawing where they win an ipod.
I like this because even the kid that sells one item as a chance at winning a nice prize. Top student in each class/grade gets something as well as top student overall(this child doesn't win twice). Hopefully our kids will like this and do well. I like them over past companies because in addition to all the seasonal stuff they also sell sports items which will be a hit here.
We used a combination. The classroom in each grade level with the highest participation percentage in the fundraiser won a wind up pig. We then had a pig race during a school assembly. Grades k-2 raced for one winner and grades 3-5 raced for the 2nd winner. Each winner received $100 in classroom supplies or software.
We then had a 3 tier range for our raffles. We had a dozen prizes and those that sold 20 or more items had 5 chances put into the raffle. those selling 11-19 items had 3 chances and those selling 1-10 items had one chance put in. After the races, the raffle winners were drawn.
