Our take is actually 45% but we won't have final numbers until after the 8th when all the money is due in and all returns etc. have been credited. I'm not sure if that's a standard Percentage for Cherrydale or not. I know it's been standard for our rep for the past three years. As with all fundraisers your rep makes a big difference. Ours is wonderful. She has donated several door prizes for our PTO meeting nights, offers the teachers with the most sales in their class designer watches for #1, $50 basket of chocolate for #2 and I don't remember what she is giving #3. We call she does what we ask or tries at any rate. I'll try to post once our final numbers are in week after next. If I survive all of this again. lol :eek:
PTOSlave - congrats, I'm thrilled that SOMEONE'S school is up. I am chairing fundraising at elementary (600 kids) and middle school (1700 kids) and both of ours are down. We are looking into changing vendors at the middle school for a whole host of reasons and the vendor you mentioned is one we're looking at. One thing, though - from your numbers you're getting just over 40% profit. That seems low to me. Do you know if that is standard for that vendor?
That's wonderful Cougar. Our fundraiser was over $86,000 of that our take is just over $36,000 for 653 participating students (1200 student enrollment). We are up from last year by almost $5,000. We do Cherrydale Farms and the Big Blast party does not cost the PTO anything. The representative offers this. You can choose your prize package. This year we will have our Big Blast on Halloween (our school does not celebrate Halloween) so it will be fun for the kids (an us volunteers, especially me the Chairperson!). Our rep told us that money was down across the board this year and we were the only one of her schools that went up from the previous year. We are thrilled.
That's great! Our PK-6 school did about the same. While the product is important, the prize structure is what gets the kids to bug their parents to sell.
Our representative does a prize store where kids get tickets to exchange for prizes they pick out on-site. Class that does the best, gets to go first. It's the part that's "fun" about a fundraiser.
COUGAR - First of all - congrats! It's awesome that this early in the year you have been so successful and are financially in a good place. If you are not comfortable sharing the name of the company on the board - would you please email it to me? We are looking into switching vendors for our middle school (1700+ kids, last year's sale was over $100K, this year only $65K - so many other reasons we're looking to make a change, though!)
