school fund raising ideas?

Question

my son small christian school needs ideas for fund raising. grades go from Pre-K to 10th. They have 40 students total.
Please help, all and any ideas appreciated

if it matters, we live in tx

Answer 1

!. A no bake sale...................you just donate money instead. 2.Have everyone bring in their loose change for a couple months.pennies,dimes and quarters.Volunteers can count it up at the end of the fundraising period. 3. Hold a dance, bar-b-que or fun fair, ask local businesses to donate prizes and/supplies.4.Ask your church ladies group to hold a social tea and bazaar and the proceeds go to your school 5.Ask your students to contribute to an idea for fundraising, they may surprise you with what they come up with.6. Hot lunch sales Hope these ideas can help.

Answer 2

The first thing to do is look at what fundraisers other schools are doing and then avoid them. A small school simply can't do much with the typical choclate bars, wrapping paper and gift catalog sales and besides, just about every other school is probably doing them already and glutting the entire city.

Look into things like recycling printer cartridges and BoxTops for Education. These are fundraisers you run year round and can add up over time. You can ask parents to set out collection boxes and cans in places like break rooms (if that doesn't go against compnay policy) and to ask relatives to save these items for the school as well. Scholastic books do the montly take home order forms. If your school is not doing that, look into it. Teachers earn bonus points for every dollar spent and can get books for the class or the school library. The order forms are organized by grade level and offen many of the childrens' classics and more popular authors at great prices (the only thing to consider is the parents feelings onbook such as Harry Potter, Lemon Snicket, etc as they are standart offerings).

Check with local grocery stores. Many chains allow schools of any size to sign up for programs that allow parents and staff to attribute purchases to a school of thier choice. Purchases accumulate and the store donates a percentage of the total to the school.

If one shot fundraisers are what you are interested in, then Tupperware, Home Interiors and many other similar companies do fundraisers. The items will tend to be more exspensive, so you need to decide if the schools in the family are in positions to support these activities. There are several companies out there that will let children design and submit artwork. Parents can order things like holiday cards, general greeting cards, bookmarks etc. with the artwork on it...not too costly . And finally, one that is wonderful for your students and can be opened up to include younger siblings, other people from neighborhood or local youth groups etc. is to do a fundraiser in conjuction with one of the companies that do children's emergency ID cards. These cards generally contain an in depth description of the child, a photo and finger prints. They are great to have on hand at home and in your wallet, for the school to have as part of thier field tip packs and for daycare providers to have in case your child turns up lost or missing.

I hope some of these ideas give you what you need,. Good luck

Former PTO president and active school fundraiser...for schools ranigng from 1000 students to 30

Answer 3

One of the most popular in high school was "buy a rose for a friend". Students pay for a rose, write a message, & it gets delivered to the recipient (by student volunteers--usually during homeroom). The students can indicate on the note who the rose is from or not. Another involves the same type of activity as the roses only using candy. Whatever your local sports teams are, selling beads in the team colors near games is always popular. Of course, the old bake sale with donated goods.

Answer 4

Some restaurants like Pizzeria Uno will host the fundrasier for you and then gives you whatever the agreed upon percentage of the night's sales are. That works if you can advertise a little and bring in as many people as you can from the area.

Answer 5

There are a lot of things for a school k-10 to do for fundraisers.When i was younger my school sold a lot of cookie dough. We also sold Christmas reaths. With holidays coming fast and the reaths needing to be there before christmas its a good idea. If you also go to www.gafundraising.com/giving they can help set up a wonderful fundraiser. My band gropu did this one and we brought in close to $5000.00

Answer 6

My daughter's school, which is much larger mind you, quit doing fundraisers and simply ask for donations. No hassle of selling things that people don't really want and all the money goes to the school.

Answer 7

A GREAT idea for a fundraiser, even for a small school is a Tupperware fundraiser!!!!!!!! They offer great incentives for doing the fundraiser and great profits. And it's something that is liked by all parents! Easy to sell. It sells itself!

Answer 8

My friend goes to a Christan school! Anyway, a good idea for that is like selling chocalte or something! im in 5th grade and i still like selling chocalte! So,try that out,and if it doesnt work,try something else!

Answer 9

Try gift-baskets with different themes like: a toy basket -filled with different toys, a holiday basket- filled with seasonal decorations, spa basket- bubble baths and assorted bath salts and music Cd's, chocolate decadence basket- filled with different gourmet chocolates, candle basket- filled with candles, etc. Give each grade a basket to fill and then raffle them off. Hope this helps.

Answer 10

My daughters school just started a fund raiser with HOME INTERIORS.