Fundraiser Ideas
Krispy
Kreme |
Dollar Dayz |
Members vs. Faculty Basketball |
Poinsettia Sales |
Student Payback |
Trike Races |
Don’t Come Event |
Penny War |
Cow Pie Bingo |
Car Wash | Topless Car
Wash |
Scratch & Help |
Other Fundraising Ideas
Krispy Kreme
Description: There are many variations on this fundraiser. Some chapters take orders for a month before sales, then deliver the doughnuts to those who ordered; while other chapters just buy 20 dozen and sell doughnuts at lunch. Be sure to communicate with your local Krispy Kreme; they can give you fundraising materials, order forms, and other things
Variations: Krispy Kreme has certificates you can sell and even a card that you can sell. This way you don’t deal with the actual doughnuts.
Amount Raised: The amount of money raised depends completely on how much the doughnuts are sold for, how many are sold, and what price you bought them for.
Helpful Links: www.krispykreme.com
Dollar Dayz
Description: This fun and easy fundraiser is a great way to get people involved! Students and faculty each make a donation to participate in a special spirit day. After making this donation, the individual takes part in a pajama day, crazy hat day, or any other special dress day.
Variation: Faculty makes a donation to take part in a dress-down day.
Amount Raised: This is a great fundraiser because there is no cost to put it on. Everything you make goes directly to March of Dimes or your chapter activities!
Members vs. Faculty Basketball
Description: Members of FBLA take on the faculty in the school. Tickets can be sold ahead of time at a discounted price and then full price at the door. If you can get your school’s mascot involved, it makes it that much better!
Variation: Have a round-robin class tournament. Each class (freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior) gathers a team, and then plays each other in a tournament for bragging rights. Also, some schools have an annual Donkey Basketball game. This is usually a student vs. faculty in a basketball game with the players riding donkeys (this would take away some profit to rent the donkeys); it usually turns out to be hilarious.
Cost/Profit: Depending on school rules for getting gym time, the only costs would be the basketballs and referees (unless you had members of the varsity squad referee).
Poinsettia Sales
Description: Sell poinsettia plants for the winter season. Each plant can be sold for $10 or so. Sales usually extend from after Thanksgiving to the middle of December. There are many companies that have this available. Many times you receive catalogs and order forms, with which you go out into the community and sell to friends and relatives.
Variation: Some groups have sold wreaths through companies such as Deer Run Greenery. This has also proved to be very successful.
Cost/Profit: Depending on where you get the product, how much you sell it for, and obviously how many you sell, your profits could be anywhere from $500 to $12,000.
Student Payback
Description: This fundraiser is always a hit! School principal picks as many teachers as he/she feels will willingly participate - no party poopers! The principal also has to play (to be fair of course). The principal then selects an "appropriate" activity that each teacher has to do such as: kiss a pig, color hair a wild color, dress outrageously, roller skate, etc. Be creative! Have fun! The teachers vote on what the principal has to do. Get a large jar for each teacher and the principal. Write the name of the each teacher and the principal and their "assigned activity" on their individual jars. Put the jars where someone can keep an eye over them - preferably in a high traffic area. Students, teachers, parents, and other school employees "vote" by depositing money into the jar(s). At the end of the fundraiser, the three (five, etc.) teachers who have the most money in their jars have to do their assigned activity. Have the "winners" perform their activity at a pep rally or other regular assembly, or hold a special assembly just for the fundraiser.
Cost/Profit: The great thing about this fundraiser is that the costs are very small, only the supplies needed for the teachers’ activity!
Trike Races
Description: This is a hilarious way to raise money! At a school event such as a tailgate party, or an end of the year carnival, hold a trike race! Gather as many entries as possible and have them supply their own tricycles. Hold several heats, then a final, or make it really funny and have everyone race at the same time!
Variation: Instead of a trike race, have a trike-a-thon. Take donations for every lap completed by each person. For fun, a rule could be thrown in that if they fall over or off the trike, the lap will count double.
Cost/Profit: There probably will be no cost to do this fundraiser, so all proceeds go to March of Dimes or your chapter activities!
Don’t Come Event
Description: A Don't Come Event is something that you should seriously consider using as a fundraising event. Imagine how good people will feel towards you for saving them the effort or inconvenience of attending another time-consuming function with boring speeches and people that they might not want to see again quite so soon or at all. Here is the perfect fundraising activity for the busy people who appreciate a good idea when they see one and like to support good causes.
Send a humorous invitation to an event that will never take place. This is a greatway of asking for a donation. The invitation needs be clear in explaining that the event will never take place and why it is to your invitee's benefit not to come to an event they have paid for.
The invitation must be appealing and very presentable. Furthermore, it is a lowcost method of getting your message out in a very friendly manner. If constructed properly, the invitation should be able to be used as a conversation piece. Be original, and use your imagination. Since the event will never take place, you can have it anywhere, anytime, and it won't cost anything extra.
To reduce the cost of the invitations, approach a printer to donate the cost of the printing by allowing them to have their name somewhere on the invitation. Who do you invite? The major advantage of this type of event is that you are freed from the restraint of only appealing to your membership! You can invite ANYONE who you think might support your cause. Make sure you include some media personnel because you might get some free publicity.
Depending on your available funds, send out as many invitations as you deem appropriate. Just keep in mind that you will not get a response from every invitee. Work on the expectation that only a percentage will respond, and from there, send out enough invitations that will probably secure enough positive responses to make the activity worthwhile.
After the invitee has paid for his ticket(s), issue a Thank You note for their nonattendance. Again re-affirm all the benefits the invitee has enjoyed by their nonattendance mentioned in the original invitation.
Where possible, include a speech by the guest speaker who also did not attend. If the guest speaker is fictional, a cartoon or movie character, you have the choice of having a long print-out of meaningless gibberish as a speech or include a genuine speech on a topic related to your fundraising organization
Cost/Profit: If the printing costs are donated, you only must worry about the postage. This is a truly great fundraiser!
Source: Fundraising Ideas & Products - www.fundraising-ideas.org
Penny Wars
Description: Every school has dueling classes, and this is a way to end that! Each class either makes or is given a jar to be put in a busy place; the office or cafeteria are good places! The idea is to earn the most points for your class, but there is a twist; pennies and bills count for your class, but silver counts against! So by placing nickels, dimes, and quarters in the jars of the other classes, points are being taken away. In the end all the money in each jar is counted, and the negative points are taken away. The class that wins is recognized in some way. They could be recognized in an assembly, at a sporting event, or in the school newspaper.
Cost/Profit: The jars can be donated, or something can be reused (large water jugs are great!), so there really is no cost!
Cow Pie Bingo
Description: This fundraiser is great for our members in rural areas! Host a cow pie fundraiser during a county fair, rodeo or other event. A cow is turned loose on a fenced-in area that has been marked off in 500 three-foot, numbered squares. The cow determines the winner by making the first "deposit" on one of the squares. A chance on each square is sold for $3. The winner receives $50 or 20% of the sales, whichever is less ($1 for every square sold.) Kids and adults will both love this fun event.
Other Tips and Hints: ¨
- The animal is well fed on the day of the event to assure a timely "deposit.”
- Sell squares in advance as well as before 'turning out' the cow.
- A line judge is required for close calls. Set out clear rules to avoid problems and assure impartiality.
- If possible, choose a field with stands for the ticket holders to wait and watch for the big moment. A football or soccer field (in off-season) might be used if fenced or if you have enough volunteers to keep the animal on the grid.
- Possible sources of the star player: a local dairy, horse farm, etc., to donate the critters "time" and the field to make a grid.
- In place of a cow, you could also use a horse, goat, or sheep, even a dog in a pinch! However, using a cow will usually guarantee media interest and greater publicity for your group.
- Choose a docile animal and groom resplendently for the event.
- Have several volunteers available to patrol the fence and assure no one is able to influence the event in any way.
- It's best to have a rain date arranged ahead of time, if needed.
Cost/Profit: It’s hard to say how much this fundraiser may cost, but it’s sure to bring fun and profit!
Source: Fundraising Ideas & Products – www.fundraising-ideas.org
Car Wash
Description: The most basic and most traditional of all fundraisers can still prove to be the most fun and most profitable. It’s quite simple to plan. A place to have it and people to work it are all you need. Make signs to promote it and signs to hold during the car wash, and be sure to have a smile and fun!
Cost/Profit: Many places allow groups to use their parking lot and water spickett for free, so soap and washing materials will probably be the only cost. A good idea is to ask for donations instead of a set price, as this makes people more willing to come!
Topless Car Wash
Description: Run this just like a regular car wash except it has to be on a warm day. Advertise that it’s a “Topless” car wash! People will flock to it out of pure curiosity! At the actual site of the car wash, have signs saying that convertibles with the top down (topless) get a free wash!
Other Fundraising Ideas
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If you have others that have worked for you, let us know! We’d love to include them in future handbooks. Just send your successful ideas to:
Washington State FBLA,1445 Galaxy Drive NE, Suite 302, Lacey, WA 98516, or e-mail them to judy@wafbla.org or dawne@wafbla.org.
Please send your descriptions, costs, and profits also!
Thank you, and happy fundraising!