We need cheap fundraising ideas!?

Question

Well, we have a problem! Prom is going to cost $45,000! We only have $806! We need to find fundraising ideas that are cheap and give a large chump of change back! Something inventive, not like selling candy or flowers!

Answer 1

Sell home made food, or maybe make cookies and cakes , and have a cake walk , or raffle tickets., car wash , or if you have stuff you want to get rid of, maybe a garage sell. or a yard sell.

Answer 2

Bake Sale, Car Wash, Raffles. Have someone donate an item and raffle it off. Have a limited number of tickets and closing date. At the end, draw a ticket to get the winner. My son's class had a car dealership give them a rock bottom price on a nice new car. They raffled tickets for the car, paid for the car and still had plenty of money for the entire senior class to go on a senior trip and have the senior dance. Most people would pay $5 or $10 for a raffle ticket on a new car! What about a rummage sale? Have each student bring items for the sale. Do all of the above. If you have any money left, do something nice for the school. My son's class put new drapes in the auditorium. If you all work toward the goal, you can do it. Have fun!!

Answer 3

Think about a couple of alternatives: Everyone donates x number of dollars and lower the cost of your prom!

I've seen classes have car washes on weekends. I've also seen them have crab feeds where they get most of the food donated.
Contact a celebrity, or rock icon, and see if they'll make an appearance (impromptu concert?) at your school, go to the local Chamber of Commerce and see if they can help, find out if some of the benevolent organizations, suchs as the Moose, Shriners, Masons, Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls, Clampers, etc. would be willing to give money to sponser. Have a wine tasting event, wherein local wineries donate their wines. Charge an overhead and include entertainment. Bring in a celebrity chef to offer a class, donating the proceeds to your cause. The list goes on!

Answer 4

I realize you said not seeling flowers or candy, but when I was in school we had a carnation sale (you can either get real ones or make them out of tissue paper).

Or you can do the classic car wash...stand at a four way stop with buckets asking for money.

Set up a yard sale (getting people to donate items).

Classic bake sale

Maybe you could get the school administration to work with you by offering student a chance to wear clothes against the policy (if you wear uniforms).

Buy a whole bunch of pizzas and sells them at a $1.50 a slice (most people will let you keep the change)...plus if you talk to a manager at the pizza place they'll probably give you a discount.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Do a "Kiss a Pig" contest. Basically the idea is to let people vote to see who they would like to see "Kiss a Pig". They vote by money amount - usually pennies. Get people like your principal, several teachers, a coach, a local radio personality, etc, or even students -and basically - whoever has the most "votes" or money has to kiss a pig at the end of the contest. You take their money at the time they vote (this can go on for one day or up to a week). Then at the end of the time - you have everyone there who was in the running - and you announce your winner. Then they have to kiss a pig. (I have done this with a piglet, a pot-bellied pig, a policeman, and also one time with a piggy bank). You will be amazed how much those pennies will add up, especially if you really promote it. And it is funny.

We did this one time at an indoor garage sale we had in the cafeteria. The Kiss a Pig was at the finale of the sale. We set up a "voting booth" and let people place their votes - where were tallied at the end of the day.

Answer 6

Well what about a Car Wash it can be fun and u can win a chump of money back. Or what we did at our school is ask for donations.you could have something like all the students bring in unwanted stuff, and then the school has some some sort of well-advertised garage sale-ish thingy...and there's always, like somebody said, bake sales. they are a great way to get money. you could do something like a car wash, or a "if this teacher/principal/student will -enter slightly irrational idea here- this person will donate -enter amount of money- so you can kinda have fun doing it. other than that though, i dont know what to say. sorry if i didn't HELP!! :(Oh ya you can always have a bake sale

Answer 7

well, first of all, you could just ask for donations- that'll probably get you a few thou, depending on how many people go to your school. but to get 45,000 you guys are gonna have to do a variety of stuff...and you're gonna need help from most of the people in the school. you could have something like all the students bring in unwanted stuff, and then the school has some some sort of well-advertised garage sale-ish thingy...and there's always, like somebody said, bake sales. they are a great way to get money. you could do something like a car wash, or a "if this teacher/principal/student will -enter slightly irrational idea here- this person will donate -enter amount of money- so you can kinda have fun doing it. other than that though, i dont know what to say. sorry if i didn't help.

Answer 8

Alright, so I have a few ideas for you. The second one I've used for the Hospice I volunteer at and was pretty effective. 1. There's the old standby bottle drives. These can be rather effective. 2. Try getting people to organize home dinner parties. Say one family provides the entre and they invite four other families to the party. Each family brings $20 and one dish. At the end the host collects the money and sends in a cheque or drops off the cash in person. 3. You could organize a garage sale and collect items from anyone who is willing to donate. There's three that I've personally used and were effective regardless of the charity. I hope that helps your club!

Answer 9

Depending on the number of kids in your class - it's not that outrageous a number if you split it up. Organize a 5 mile walk/run with a raffle. Everyone entered in the walk/run has a chance to win a donated (or purchased) prize. (get a limo company to tux rental or florist or photographer to provide prom night stuff for the winner in exchange for sponsor advertising at the walk/run event. If you get 100 people to walk, each one has to get $450 in sponsorships. You can also try to find someone or some company to match donations. Sneaker companies, sports stores, sports teams, local media (a big one), the local mall, any local big company, photographer, store where kids buy prom supplies or school supplies,places kids go after prom, etd you can think of is a possible donor.

Answer 10

Go to local companies and ask if they can donate something for silent auction. Local coffee companies can give a pound of coffee and a travel mug, a massage therapist may donate a gift certificate for a free massage, a local restaurant will give a meal voucher and so on. Companies are generally happy to do this. Then hold a silent auction and auction off all the stuff. It won't make you $45k, but $30k isn't out of the question.

Answer 11

Have a spaghetti dinner! Sell plates for $5-6 each, and see if you can't get the food donated (be sure to mention donors on a table tent or something). Sell desserts for $1-2 each. Get those donated (bakery and homemade) as well.