School
Fundraising Ideas
If you are in charge of school fundraising this year, you may think that you are in way over your head.
Sometimes it can be difficult to come up with new, unique, and exciting fundraisers for your school. It may
seem like you're doing same boring and time consuming fundraiser year after year.
Each year parents are forced to beg their coworkers and family members to buy useless and overpriced items from
their child’s fundraiser books. There are better ideas out there though. Many believe the world of marketing
to be completely divorced from the world of fundraising. The simple truth is that they're almost the same, except
fundraising is tougher.
Why? Because you're trying to get something for free. In standard marketing you're not. Don't let this scare you
though. Here are some new, unique, and exciting school fundraising ideas to help get you started on your path
towards fun fundraisers!
School Fundraising Ideas - Scratch Off Cards
A great school fundraising idea to raise the
money that you need is by using scratch off cards. These scratch off cards work much like a scratch off lottery
ticket except that the number the person scratches off is the amount that they donate, not win. These tickets
are great because each ticket adds up to one hundred dollars.
If you have even ten students get a card completely filled then your organization can make a thousand dollars.
Plus, they are very cheap to purchase. In addition, these cards are great because no one person feels like
they are donating too much money. The highest price on these scratch off cards is usually around five dollars.
This is cheaper than buying the useless things that many schools sell and the person can feel like they are really
helping the school or organization out by donating.
Selling Services - The Most Overlooked School Fundraising Idea of All Time
Another great
school fundraising idea that is so often overlooked is the selling of services. (Everyone focuses so heavily on
product sales that this goodie never even enters their heads.) If you have a group of students trying to raise
money, they can sell their services to people in the community. They can rake leaves, clean gutters, mow
lawns, organize garages, wash cars, or do any other household job that someone might need done. This is
great if there are a lot of older people in your community who cannot do these things on their own. The only
major rule with this is that there must be an adult accompanying the students at all time. There are a few ways
that you can implement this fundraising idea.
You could have a “rent-a-teen” program where the individual can rent the teen for a whole afternoon for a
set price or for an hourly price. You could also have a list of services that the students can sign up for and
each service is individually priced. However you do this, this school fundraising idea will not only help the
community but also raise money for your organization.
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