Fundraiser. Ideas please?

[killersushipunk]

My school is raising money to build a dam in Kenya. I am on a homeroom group to try and raise money for this The dam will give clean water to about 2,000 people, and will cost $6,000. If anybody has any ideas for a fundraiser, please post them. We have already raised about $1,000 through a raffle and coin drives. We need to get the money before the school year ends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ideas need to be reasonable for a school with about 800 students and their parents, so no Live Aid concerts or Bono or anything like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ideas we already have (or bad ideas for any reason):

 

 

 

~Raffle

 

 

 

~Coin drive

 

 

 

~Homeroom Competition

 

 

 

~Magazine sale

 

 

 

~Selling wristbands

 

 

 

~Selling junk food

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cool people (those who have helped)

 

 

 

Me :3>

 

 

 

Darkmage099

 

 

 

Astralinre

 

 

 

ShadowFaxPZ

 

 

 

Petey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ideas:

 

 

 

Concert

 

 

 

Bake sale

 

 

 

Movie night

 

 

 

Silent Auction

[darkmage099]

sell magazines.

 

 

 

have an enormous food sale where the students provide the food supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ill think of some more later.

[Astralinre]

Bake sales, carwashes, and that sort of thing are great for making some money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And while you can't have a Live Aid concert, there's probably someone in your school who has a band, who would be willing to do a benefit concert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope that helps. :)

[killersushipunk]

sell magazines.

 

 

 

have an enormous food sale where the students provide the food supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ill think of some more later.

 

 

 

The magazine thing isn't such a good idea, becuase our school already uses it to get money for otner stuff. I like the food sale thing though!

[Pink]

We're doing a battle of the bands to raise money. It will get us an estimated $3,000 and our school has 700 people in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have 10 bands comming, charging $7 for an entry ticket per person. We have two other middle schools where most of the students are comming and a larger highschool (with 1,500 some) comming. We also have one really good band comming...

[killersushipunk]

We're doing a battle of the bands to raise money. It will get us an estimated $3,000 and our school has 700 people in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have 10 bands comming, charging $7 for an entry ticket per person. We have two other middle schools where most of the students are comming and a larger highschool (with 1,500 some) comming. We also have one really good band comming...

 

 

 

Cool! We have a concert piano-player named Emma at our school. She offered to play so kids could come to the gym and hear her play (and miss class) I'm not sure that $7 would be right for us, but I still like it!

[darkmage099]

We're doing a battle of the bands to raise money. It will get us an estimated $3,000 and our school has 700 people in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have 10 bands comming, charging $7 for an entry ticket per person. We have two other middle schools where most of the students are comming and a larger highschool (with 1,500 some) comming. We also have one really good band comming...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ooh good idea. (it's coming by the way)

[Ultralord]

first of all whats your budget for the fundraiser?

 

 

 

second of all, if you have enough money you could have a school carnival with games and a dunk-tank and such. my elementary school did that and we always raised alot of money.

[killersushipunk]

first of all whats your budget for the fundraiser?

 

 

 

second of all, if you have enough money you could have a school carnival with games and a dunk-tank and such. my elementary school did that and we always raised alot of money.

 

 

 

First of all, our buget is really low.

 

 

 

Most of the stuff we got for the things were donated.

 

 

 

Second of all, our student parties are alreadt like that with dunk tanks and things like that, and student councel gave us part of the profits of the last party.

[lawrencekill]

 

first of all whats your budget for the fundraiser?

 

 

 

second of all, if you have enough money you could have a school carnival with games and a dunk-tank and such. my elementary school did that and we always raised alot of money.

 

 

 

First of all, our buget is really low.

 

 

 

Most of the stuff we got for the things were donated.

 

 

 

Second of all, our student parties are alreadt like that with dunk tanks and things like that, and student councel gave us part of the profits of the last party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How low?

 

 

 

Give a price range, just saying the word "low" doesn't really help.

[killersushipunk]

 

 

first of all whats your budget for the fundraiser?

 

 

 

second of all, if you have enough money you could have a school carnival with games and a dunk-tank and such. my elementary school did that and we always raised alot of money.

 

 

 

First of all, our buget is really low.

 

 

 

Most of the stuff we got for the things were donated.

 

 

 

Second of all, our student parties are alreadt like that with dunk tanks and things like that, and student councel gave us part of the profits of the last party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How low?

 

 

 

Give a price range, just saying the word "low" doesn't really help.

 

 

 

The raffle cost about $6.

 

 

 

I would say $1-$20.

 

 

 

Unless it is really awesome.

[Faux]

In our DECA chapter, we had a (successful) movie night and a coffee sale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movie Night

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Set up a projector to play a DVD. We had Scary Movie 4 (Halloween theme)

 

 

 

- Don't sell tickets.

 

 

 

- Make money from selling pizza and pop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep in mind that we sold even more pizzas in the school's lobby (front hall) to make more profit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee Sale

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall/Winter weather - people want something to keep them warm. I think this was more profitable than movie night.

[rocketman089]

Fall/Winter weather - people want something to keep them warm. I think this was more profitable than movie night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The FBLA club at my school does a "Rude Awaking" coffee shop every morning, They sell a handfull of different kinds of coffees and hot chocolate and a bunch of cookies. From what i hear they really make some bank on it.

[jak722]

Ask restaurants or other place of business if you can place Tip jars on their counter for people to donate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or even ask those restaurants themselves if they could donate a few things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask your city hall or something for a few funds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask your local paper if they can mention your cause in their paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go busking in a public place for money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do a walkaton or a "march for *insert cause here" type event.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look for sponsors and companies willing to advertise through your group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try doing auctions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set up an outdoor barbeque.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Set up an online website and get donations from people, or from advertising.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Try a car wash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bingo night?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A water ducky race or with anything that floats. (found this on the web)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make your own stuff like t-shirts, posters, calendars, stickers and sell them for slightly higher than the material cost.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go door to door and beg, hehe... Or sell candies and stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your shame is your limit! :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Err... I mean good luck! :

[WutangFlu]

At our school we sometimes have feeds..

 

 

 

like say Burgers, chips, pop, and a bar for $5-6

 

 

 

and we usually get a few hundred $$ profit from it.

[xvillexvalox]

Write a letter to Angelina Jolie, "save your yet-not-adopted children!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But seriously, ask your school to hold a district dance, entrance fees at 15 dollars, and a donation box up front. The sucess/profit from this all depends from how many people are in yuor district.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(in my high school of 4000 (9000 in district), homecoming dances bring in a pretty penny at 15$ per person)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, I'm running blank on ideas, hope this helped?

[killersushipunk]

At our school we sometimes have feeds..

 

 

 

like say Burgers, chips, pop, and a bar for $5-6

 

 

 

and we usually get a few hundred $$ profit from it.

 

 

 

We can't compete with the lunch room for sales, and we can't sell junk food.

 

 

 

Stupid laws.

[SLOWSTORM]

We've had alot of luck selling coupon books. I think the company's called Fun Rays, or something like that. They run through the UPS Store. Might be worth checking out. ;-)

[katha610]

get some local bands and ask them to play for free for that cause (get promotion and so on). sell tickets and maybe some shirts

[michiel2]

What about doing small jobs like something in a supermarket?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good project btw. That's what we need in the world. :D

[Fadfdfd]

Bake sales work well. Every kid likes goodies :)

[petey]

Silent auction, our school made 19400+ pounds at ours=] (somebody built a porch! :S)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Say your ma + pa are...chef's, ask them to put in a meal for two or something, say your dad's an artist, family portrait?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, these are really good money maker's, definately put that forward.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(have any question's pm me :) )

[killersushipunk]

Good ideas!

 

 

 

keep em coming!