I have recently started a school fundraiser with the goal of making parents and children aware of environmental issues facing our childrens' future. www.environmentbags.com
is beginning in San Diego and expanding nationwide shortly.
We sell reusable shopping bags that can save from 300-500 plastic t-bags a year just through the use of one reusable bag. We are perhaps the last country in the world using disposable plastic bags as we shop. This program can be incorporated with toner recycling, bag recycling, cell phone recycling and battery recycling. Isn't it about time there is a fundraiser with a message?
i feel so repeatitive but i had a great experience with championmagnets.com
you get to customize practically anything. We did car magnets. We put our school logo on them. i think we ordered 500 of them. you buy them at wholesale. no charge for the art work or shipping. hmmmm.... and we sold them for $5 to $10 and made 300-500%
it was really lucrative for us. check it out. hope it works for you.
we just put in another order for personalized christmas ornaments and the turn around rate is soooooo quick!
Check out www.cadysonline.com.
They have many different programs to choose from. We had a terrific experience with them! They provide great customer service, we made $8000 over budget for our Fall Fundraiser. We did a Catalog sale that did have candy in it!
I would suggest NEVER doing a school-wide fundraiser with a direct-selling representative from an at-home type of business like Pampered Chef, Tastefully Simple, Mary Kay, AVON, CM, SU! etc.. With all of those ( and many more) it is likely that you have more than one ofthese reps in your school, and having to choose one in your school can be a conflict of interest. Secondly, it's ONE PERSON doing the whole thing, and they can set it up anyway way they want.
You are solely dependent on their reliability, and usually they have no support staff, and they don't have years of proven success stories. Lastly, most can't offer the deep percentages that the nationally known companies offer. I would not even CONSIDER a fundraiser who offers less than 40%.
As for AVON.. the fundraising program CAN make up to 45%, IF you use the single page flyer. The " full brochure" has many items which reps ONLY make 0-20% on for their full profit. There's no room for offering discounts.
For example, all the Breast Cancer stuff? AVON gives 100% of the profit to breast cancer charities, and the reps make ABSOLUTELY nothing on those items. So, if your group buys $1000 worth of breast cancer stuff, for example, the rep has to pay you cash out of her own pocket to give you profit on those items. Sounds like the person who had the bad experience with AVON had a rep who didn't know how to do a fundraiser.. she should have eaten the loss and learned from experience, not short the school. shame on her.
