There are many restaurants that do fundraising nights. We've done Silver Diner a few times and it usually brings in 600+. Very little work involved outside of the person who calls to reserve the date. We do have teachers and other "celebrities" volunteer to run food to tables. So that take a bit more time, but you don't have to do that. Silver Diner also provides a clown who does face paiting and baloon sculptures.
You get 20% of the profit for the night - regardless of whether the diners realize they are there for our school. We send out a flyer with the kids, and everyone comes. It's usually a really fun night.
We are now looking into expanding to Fuddruckers since we heard they offer a similar program.
We do several restaurant benefit nights per year. We make sure the students get the flyers/coupons and that's the end of our work. Parents go eat at the restaurant and then we receive a check in the mail. We've done Domino's, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, Burger King, Popeye's and Back Yard Burger. We made over $2000 last year - people are going to eat out anyway so why not do it as a fundraiser?! :cool:
Our school does a candy gram. We send home a notice on Monday, sales start on Tue, continue Wed & Thru.
Cost 25cents per candy gram sent. Sold at lunch time. K-4th school. Three volunteers, three hours, three day's work total appox. $400 in profits. The candy gram is a cute piece of artwork, with From:____ To:____ and a message area for writing. Tape on a piece of candy and delivered to the classroom after lunch. We copy these candy grams 4 up on an 8-1/2 x 11 piece of paper.
We do a penny drive in March, but it is Pennies for Patients(children w/ leukemia), the money is donated. We have a lso done a Room to Read fundraiser and raised $4100 in about 4 weeks, but this is being donated to build a school in Sri Lanka(it costs $5000 to build a school) and we have 2 more weeks to go. This year we have raised alot of money but we are raising the money to donate to good causes. Our school is K-5, 207 students and when they know we are helping other people these kids go all out. Our budget may be a little short this year, but our conscience won't be.
Ivyhall1-- Can you tell me more about the Xtreme sponges you did in your fundraiser? How much did you sell them for? How many did y'all sell? Any other experience with them you can share?
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We have no problems with Market Day volunteers either. We assign a grade level or teachers aids or special teachers each month and they earn extra money for their classes. We have a school of about 600 kids and just made it to almost 5k profit so far!
