Thanks for your ideas! We do Fall Festival which is our other major fundraiser. The candle we can not do as it requires solicitation by the student/parent. I love the legacy idea, with a granddaughter entering 6th grade that would be a great idea for them, (we are K-6).
You have my mind going, Thanks!
Hi Grandma--posted under another thread but you could use as well.
We do a basket bingo each year that is done with our basket auction (the classrooms each come up with a theme basket) that brings in about 6k. We also made 3k on our Fall Fun Festival. We got away from catalog sales as well just to take a break. We also supplement with Spirit Nights, Market Day (at the parents request on that one), we run a Karate Camp good for about 2k the first year and 1k after that. We usually make about 30k a year when all of our little things are tallied up. This year we will sell Yankee Candles and I think it will be a great fundraiser. We allow parents to donate money in return for an ad of acknowledgement in our newsletter and that tends to raise about 2k a year to cover copier and paper costs and finally we have a boosters program where parents can donate just cause. That also brings in about 2.5k (Yes, we have terrific parents). Oh, we also run our own summer supply sales program that brings in a couple thousand.
Finally when we have things like a visiting author-we do the work to augment his fee by selling his books (autographed and personalized).
This year we've set up a Legacy Fund. Our 5th graders will be selling ice cream once a month. They do all the work and the year end dollars go toward the purchase of something they leave behind to enhance the school. Any additional dollars are put toward the purchase of the rising 5th graders DARE tshirts. It's a nice little idea.
We have just been notified by our school board that we are no longer allowed to do catalogue sales as fundraisers. We are not allowed to do any thing that involves students/parents asking for donations which also includes a walk-a-thon. We had already planned a catalogue sale for the fall. We just do two fundraisers per year, now we will have to settle with several smaller ones. Does any one have any ideas for a small school in a rural community?
