Easy Fund Raising Ideas

Question: fundraising?

ok, so me any mom are going with my class to New York in May, It’ll cost a little less than $5,000 for both of us. The problem is my “class” isnt really a class. We are small group of homeschooled students that meet two days a week. Only a few people are going which makes it even harder.

I just finished selling the last of my candy bars and after a month of selling them i realized i only got a profit of $108! Selling things is hard work and not to effective. We want to do carwashes and a garage sale when it gets wamer but the problem is that we live near seattle so it wont be warm enough for a while. And the trip is in May.

Does anybody have any good Fundraising Suggestions or ideas? I found this website and it seemed nice but kinda fishy what do you think about it? http://www.fasttrackfundraising.com/magazine_fundraiser.php?wizard
basically that website will give u a free website to sell magazines on and get a nice profit…but anybody have any other GOOD ideas?

Answer: Selling things for fundraising always stinks. It is hard work, you don’t make much and people are just generally tired of being sold all the time.
My daughter is in a competitive choir and we have two good sales every year, but most of our business is repeat buyers. Most of the students have lists of people that buy this stuff from them each year, so we aren’t doing much door to door at all.

Don’t discount the garage sale idea. If the weather is cool, have everyone involved bring their coffee makers and serve cocoa and coffee. Go to your city and get permits to put out signs on major corners (we have to have permits here) put up flyers if you can. Tell as many people as you can. And be sure to put on your signs and flyers that it is a fundraiser. People will be more willing to buy something if they know it is a fundraiser.

Another idea is a service idea. You can walk dogs, babysit, do light housekeeping. Print up some cool flyers that briefly explains that you are raising money for a trip, then pass them out in your neighborhoods, or even talk to your pastor about approaching people at church, talk to your librarian, people like that. This works well, because you have no cost and people would rather you vacuum their floors than buy a candybar or something they don’t need.
good luck!

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