Phyllis
I agree that doing one big event has much better economy of scale than doing alot of small ones. We ran a candy sale at Eastertime and made $3700 for very little work. Our basket auction, conversely, is a MONUMENTAL event but we made $36,000, so the time and energy was worth it. We run fun fairs and carnivals at our schools but they free family functions.
If you have some experience doing an auction, by all means, go for it. On this site there are many solicitation lists posted. Do a search on key words like 'donation' 'auction' or 'Dottie'. These searches should pull up most of the lists that members have posted. Just cut and paste into excel and you are one your way. Don't wait for others to e-mail you a list and please...please...don't start another thread of asking for lists. They just get filled with 'me-too' posts and no substance.
I am from a small town so doing barnes and Noble would be out, great idea though. We have done a spring festival and an auction before. I think we could pull it of again. I would just like to do one major fundraiser this year and bring in most of the money we would need. Last year it seemed like we were doing little money makes every month. I don't want to put my parents through that.
Thanks for the great ideas.
Phyllis G
Ade is right...an auction is a huge amount of work. A great event, but probably not the one to start with. We just had our annual carnival tonight-another huge amount of work for just $3k in profit. Our highest return for the workload: standard full-line catalog fundraiser (wrapping paper and candy). Not very glamourous or exciting, but with very little volunteer hours we make relatively loads of money.
wcnmom-
If you are looking for cheap and easy fundraisers, then you DO NOT want to do an auction. They are extremely complex and time intensive fundraisers.
I would suggest instead doing a principal story time where you ask the principal and teachers to read stories at local Barnes and Noble store and when parents shop there, the school gets a % of monies spent.
There are other ones like local restaurants donating % of evenings totals for special school nights.
Selling candy bars at school concerts is another easy idea.
None of these ideas will bring in huge sums of money. You get your biggest bang for the buck by running a big event, like an auction.
Hello,
I just got the position of President last night. We are a small school, so I am needing ideas for cheap and easy fundraisers. I seen people talking about auction list, could someone please email them to. Any ideas would be great.
Thanks,
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