We do exactly that at our 4th of July Celebration for our town. Actually the Sorority in town uses this as a fundraiser! (I belong to that too!) We call it "Bessie Bingo" and sell 200 tickets at $20.00 a ticket. We randomly place the tickets on a board that has a grid to match the area where Bessie is. Wherever she deposits that person wins $1,000.00. The past two years we had two names on each square so we had 2 - $1,000.00 winners. The group makes $2,000.00. It has been very popular and it is definitely different!

Two Words:

C O W ~ P L O P


One of our teachers suggested this at our first meeting this year. We are going to do it ourselves in the Spring (I think...lol).

You turn your school field into a grid, marking it off with that white chalk used on baseball diamonds. You have a grid on paper that corresponds to the grid on the field. You sell squares from the grid (it was suggested that we sell the squares for $100 a square, but I don't see that happening. I think smaller squares with a $5 or $10 price tag). You get a recently well fed cow (or other barn yard animal...lol). Turn him loose in the grid (ah, did I mention you would need to rope off the grid?) and where ever he/she 'plops', the person, family or business who purchased that square wins a prize. I think it would be very easy to get a big prize donated, from say, Magic Mountain, Disney, SeaWorld or any other major park. That way all funds go to the school. If you have a grid with 200 squares in it, and sell them for $10.00 a piece, get the cow on loan from a dairy or local farmer, get a Disneyland/World prize package for a family of 6, YOUR school would make $2000. Figured as it was presented to us: 100 squares @ $100 a square = $10,000. That's a lot of B.S.!!!


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I'm not sure what a good and different fundraiser would be. I do know one that I would suggest you not try and that is scratch off tickets. The ones where you have people scratch of spots and they pay whatever amount shows. We did that one year and it was a BIG mess. Lost cards, dots scratched off that didn't have money to go with them, dots scratched off by the kids, cards lost and not returned or just not returned. It's very hard to tell someone that they have to pay you the full amount of a card that their kid scratched off and actually get them to pay the $80 or however much it was. We made less money that year and had more complaints then you can imagine.

Maybe someone else had a different experience with these?

I got info on the monopoly game too. I thought it was a great idea, just too expensive for our low income school. You also might try calendars, or personalized jewelry.

I was just going thru my emails and found a fundraiser for racing ducks. www.duckrace.com

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Yes! Look at michaelglenn.com/mainwebsite/Fundraising_Cx.html
I found it on fundraiser.org
Basically, its creating a family board game (ie monopoly) using hometown businesses. You get neighborhood businesses to "buy" squares (advertising) putting their names on it and thereby creating your own neighborhood game. I wish our fundraising chair went this idea, but we are in a small city and they thought we couldnt get enough businesses to agree to do it. It was just a few hundred dollars per ad.

Good Luck,
Lisa @ Tx

We are in the middle of our fundraiser. We are doing discount cards. We get 80% of our profit and so far the parents love the program. The company we went with is Well Worth It 405-285-6129
I'll let you know how we did when our fundraiser is over.

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