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Skootz
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07-23-2003

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Some parents are getting together this evening to discus fundraising ideas for dd's grade 3 class trip.

We don't want to do a bake sale as parents have to do all the work and put the money towards the baking that we might as well put the money in ourselves.

Any ideas that I could bring to the meeting tonight (7pm my time 4pm board time) would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
I'm thinking.....is this something you want the kids to do? When is the class trip?

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
Here found THIS

Jagger
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08-07-2002

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jagger a private message Print Post    
Have them sell candy bars!!!!

Yah Yah I know you'd be the one doing either all the selling or the buying. I just wanted some candy bars.

Skootz there are people that sell my product through fund raisers, I know it wouldn't work for me to do it because of the shipping charges, but if that is something you may be interested in I could set you up with one of the Canadian Reps.

Or maybe try something like Happenings Books.

Wish I had more suggestions but my brain isn't working well at the moment.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Thats a neat site Spit. I will print it out for ideas

jagger, the school is doing candy bars in the spring this is only a 2 class project.

We use to have a store here called Regal Greeting and Gifts and they use to do fundraising with schools and organizations, however after 75 years they claimed chapter 11.

The trip will be the beginning of June.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Bike a thon. Kids preschool used to do a trike a thon to raise money for St. Jude's Hospital every year. That was great fun, the kids learned about bike/street safety (the sheriffs dept would send them the little booklets and then someone would come over to talk the kids about saftey,) they were outside doing something active, and really felt like THEY were contribuiting to raising the money themselves.

Little league does the 50/50 raffles. Sell the tickets, half the money goes towards the prize pot, half to the league, prize amount depends on how many tickets they sell.

What about something like an auction? Auction off the little math whiz's tutoring for a couple weeks for a younger student or a good reader to a younger student who's struggling with reading? I know our school does free tutoring for any child who needs it, but there are times when we work with Kota at home that I'd be more than willing to pay someone else to do it, lol.

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
Along the auction lines....I like the one that was mentioned on the site. 7 restaurants donated a dinner and the school raffled off tickets for $30 advertising dinner out for a week. Many people would go for that for thirty bucks or even twenty. If it were chain restaurants you don't need to worry about location either.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Silent auctions of donated gifts are great idea.
Bike or Jog a thons are good, but kinda an icky time of year for that.
Rummage sales are always good, can be hosted in a gymnasium or something. Everyone has something they need to get rid of that someone else might want.
Plant sales. Nurseries might donate plants, or if there is aenough time between now and the class trip, have students plant them and care for them, etc.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Thats a good idea Spit! One of our local boyscout troops did a fund raiser with black angus a couple years ago. We bought tickets for around $30 a piece, had all you can eat, the restaurant was closed for regular business and a ton of staff. While they did have to pay Black Angus a portion I know the troop made out like little bandits.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Be careful of 50/50 raffles (or raffle tickets of any kind). In most states you have to get them approved by the state (or province) and get a special gambling license. Our parent boosters do it for all the football games, but it does involve a bit more than just printing up your own tickets.

Good luck! I love the bike a thon idea. We did a "rock a thon" one year for National Honor Society. The kids raised pledged and rocked in a rocking chair for X number of hours. We did it at a home basketball game and kept a can out for donations, too. You might get a local restaurant who'd let you set up a chair or two on a weekend night when it's busy. :-) (We did it at Christmas time and had the kids read stories to little ones while they were rocking)

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
great ideas..keep'm coming

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
http://www.classiccookie.com/

this stuff is great and sells itself!

have a school wide bingo night. sell bingo cards for $5 a card and then have games of bingo. prized can be jars of candy that you get from Sam's.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 4:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
I am off to the meeting, thanks for the terrific ideas all.

Jagger
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08-07-2002

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 5:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jagger a private message Print Post    
So how did the meeting go Skootz?

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
Jeez Skootz did they chain you and hold you for randsom/fundraising money. LOL

Just kidding of course. Let us know how it went when you get a chance.

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Sorry for leaving you all hanging. We decided on 3 fundraisers. One will be within the school only and the other 2 will be the public.

The first fundraiser will be the sale of Perennials. There are many of us that will split our plants in the spring from our flower beds. We will pot them and then sell them for cheap at the church the end of April. One of the girls has a green house that when we do split our perennials she can keep them and water them there until the time comes to sell them.

The second fundraiser will be at a local grocery store and we will sell hotdogs and pop/juice to shoppers. We will also have a donation "lunchbox" basket for anyone who wants to donate. The kids will be able to help with both of these.

The last one will be party for your class. Kids will be able to fill out ballots to win a movie with snacks and drinks for their entire class. We will send home a letter to parents including a ballot on the bottom for kids to fill out and bring back. They can also purchase ballots at the school during lunch for 1 week. If the weather suits on the day of the party, we may have the class have a water balloon fight outside too. (of course this fundraiser will have to take place when the weather warms up a lot....like perhaps May or June :-) )

I appreciate your ideas and they couldn't believe how many ideas that I had brought with me. Some of them we may do in the future or with the entire school

Thanks for all your help. It really got the ball rolling.

Oh btw, Spit you will get a laugh at this, the link you gave us shows a listing of a number of fundraisers that you could do....the moms and I really had a chuckle at the nude calendar idea.

Spitfire
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07-18-2002

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spitfire a private message Print Post    
LOL, I did not notice that one. Now that you mention it though....nude piggy's are cute!

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
we weren't talking about nude piggies, rather nude moms calendar rotflmbo - thinking yeah right, if I was nude on a calendar, we wouldn't make any money