Fund Raising Ideas - Valdosta,GA

My boys were both in cross country all 4 years of high school. The best fundraisers they did were selling candy, donuts, and doing car washes. They had some horrible ones, like selling idiotic coupon books, $20 cheesecakes of all things, and $18 tubs of flavorless cookie dough. The candy and donuts sold well because you could sell them anywhere and they were cheap enough that people would fork over a few bucks. Who is going to buy $20 cheesecakes???
The car wash worked well because they could go to a busy location and everyone and their brother could drive by and tons of people would stop in.

There's selling stuff (baked goods, candy). There's asking people for things they need done and sending a team to go do it. I did that in HS. Pulled weeds for a donation to my MYF. You could send teams of girls out to rake leaves or something. There's the car wash. Babysitting. Yard sales. See if a restaurant will give a percentage of the proceeds for one night to the team if the team works (serving, cleaning, washing dishes). SD's theatre group used to do that, and they would sing songs from their musicals to the diners.

There was a car wash at one of the churches near me this summer. The signs said it was to support their soccer team. I believe the girls said they paid $1 to the church to cover the water cost and they charged $6. Another option is a bake sale. You could also solicit donations and have a yard/garage sale benefiting the team.

We made hundreds of dollars per student when we had them sell chocolate candy bars. It seemed that everyone had their own way of selling: in front of the post office, at their parents' lunchrooms, or to their friends at sports games. The students could sell as many or as few as they wanted, and whatever they sold was subtracted from their own expenses (not the team's). Some students parents just preferred to pay the whole amount. A few students had difficulty finding opportunities to sell, so I stood with them in a Mrs. Santa outfit in front of the bank in snow in December! I took boxes of candy bars to my work and split those proceeds among all the kids. Overall this was a very positive fund-raiser. Seems most everyone loves chocolate!

My daughter's competitive dance team does a # of fundraisers...they do 'country breakfasts' at a local church...as well as spaghetti dinners...they raffle baskets that have themes...from HS paraphernalia...to local college themed stuff...to 'kitchen' baskets...tickets sold...and drawing for each. They are also looking into a 'yard sale' this year.

Best luck!

Can I trade you bills? My daughter dances it it costs me thousands per year, but I digress.

Joe Corbi's is always a big one for us. We just did a car wash and that netted about $900. We learned a lot of lessons and will do it differently in the spring, hopefully making more money.

We also do the following:
Thirty-One
Scentsy
Tastefully Simple
Butter Braids
Damsel in Distress
Flowers (sometimes)
Bake sales
Dinner sales (hamburgers and hot dogs at the studio)
Trophy's
T-shirts
Etc..

Most all do pretty well...so maybe try those?

www.gofundme.com

It is a legitimate crowd funding online way of fundraising.
Selling cookies etc., is really dreaded by many, as well as by the people who are asked to buy it.

Put on a race for people in your town. Hold a 5K, 10K and half marathon. The softball team does the aide stations, registration stations, etc. Make sure people know it is a fundraiser and come up with a cute name for it. Make tshirts for those who enter. You can charge $25 per entry and maybe you lose $6 per shirt. Make sure to do PR for the event...post it on runner websites, posters in all the athletic hangout spots in town, the high schools, put out a press release, talk to the local radio station. Post the results in the local paper with some photos of the runners.

I know that at the local high schools, the students sell doughnuts and make tons of money for their field trips and games. My little brother sold about 20 boxes at $8.50 a box!

My kids are selling cookie dough and I hate it. Also selling tumblers (cups). My friends kids are selling Chick Fil A (restaurant) cards, Barnes and Noble book cards and Moe's (restaurant). I would rather buy my friends fundraisers then my kids. At least it's something at a restaurant and not another cookie dough. My child's field trip is coming up and it's $15 plus $7 for food. I would rather send $100 for the year and call it good.