Originally Posted By Kira As some of you may know I am the coach for a local high school color guard team. We are on summer break right now but that doesn't mean my work is done The team currently has $0 in our account which means no money for uniforms, flags, equipment etc.. for the FAST approaching upcoming school year. The high school already suffers as it is in a LOW income area and some of the girls can't afford uniforms. We have a small team of 8 girls for the 08/09 school year, two of which have supportive parents..the others will not or have not been involved no matter how hard I try for recruitment. So I'm calling on all you fundraising mommies and daddies for ideas! How have you helped fundraise money for sports teams, bands or church groups without it being at the exspense of a team/group account? As I pointed out we have no money in the account so all of those selling cookie dough, candles, and candy bar type of fundraisers are out of the question as everything I've found requires that you purchase their product first. I called around to some local businesses today and many of them no longer support the holding of car washes in their parking lots due to insurance reasons. So if any of you are willing to share your ideas for low cost high profit fundraisers it would be GREATLY appreciated! Every little bit helps! Below are some of the fundraisers that I already have in mind/set in motion for the school year. Penny Drive (each girl has a jar and has to collect as many pennies or other loose change as possible!) Recycling (we collect recycling on a monthly basis from the guard member's family!) Sponser Letters (requiring each girl to find a personal sponser for the year, ANY amount of donation is accepted) Thanks for all your help and suggestions in advance =)
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom You could always have a yard sale. Get the girls to donate what they can, recruit your family and friends to donate what they can and maybe you could raise some money that way. Have the sale at your home or school if they will allow it. I have been to sales at some of our local schools when they were trying to raise money for Band uniforms.
Originally Posted By tinkerbell1962 Kira, Several years ago another mom and I from my girls former dance group raised enough $$ to take 30 dancers on a 3 day trip to Disneyland. We raised close to $25,000.00. It was great, the three kids I chaperoned had never even eaten in a restaurant other than McDonalds!! Can you imagine the fun I had with them with three days at DL!!! My email is in my profile and drop me a line. I've worked at many levels with the PTA, at my school - at the State level - and at the national level. I've also served as a faculty advisor for our student council which is a Title 1 school. I've also done many a school carnival with a starting budget of ZERO and had over 1000 people attend. I don't want to ramble on and on but I'd love to help you with some ideas. At my school I'm known as "the idea gal".
Originally Posted By wendebird Car Wash & 50/50 raffle during the car wash. Just take a name & number on each ticket. Are you non-profit? You can do Goodsearch.com if you are.
Originally Posted By Dave send me an email too Dave@laughingplace.com I was in charge of fundraising for the entire band and color guard for 3 years
Originally Posted By annalaurabrown Kira I have a fundraising business with candles and you do not need to have any money upfront. I give you everything you need to sell for free and you only pay after you have sold the candles. you can get more info at <a href="http://www.profitwithfundraisers.com" target="_blank">http://www.profitwithfundraisers.com</a> I would love to help you out.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Can I just say how dumb it is that businesses don't want the car washes in their parking lots? Do they not realize how much business that will generate for them? DUH! Oh well.... Kira, I like the yard sale idea, that was going to be my suggestion as well! We live in a really small town and the local animal shelter here that I volunteer at has clear plastic jars for coin donations at just about every business in town. They're always right up by the cash registers so when you get your change back, you can just throw your loose change into the jar. You may see if some of the smaller local businesses in your area would be willing to do that too! It may not break the bank in donations but every little bit helps!!
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I shouldn't be stunned every time I see the people of LP just hop right up to help out. You guys are all just great! We've shelled out hundreds in the past couple of month for our youngest (cheer) and you're right. This stuff is expensive. The yard sale they had was a flop and the football boys keep ahead in the fundraising area with great success. They pre-sold car wash coupons before school ended and raised a ton of money. Right now, our daughter is hooking up with our oldest DD, who happens to own a vinyl lettering machine (I'm not sure what the term is.) They are going to fabricate quite a few vinyl decal designs for when school starts in August. Graduation year/school name or initials/sports; stuff like that. And they'll make decals to order as well. Anyway, the kids can put them on their car windows, or wherever they want. Perhaps someone in your circle can try something like this...I'll let you know in a couple of months if it worked or not. This will be a maiden voyage of fundraising for us in the this arena. Good luck to you and to all of the LP folks who do such great work in their spheres with kids! xoxo (tinkerbell1962, I may drop you an email as well....we live far apart that we won't disturb each other's fundraising mojo and heaven knows we can use a little help, too. Who knew being a cheer parent could practically bankrupt us! lol!
