I am the new fundraising coordinator for my sons youth hockey league, and I am looking for some new fundraising ideas that are profitable, we have done varsity gold cards, Little Casears pizza kits, and cookie dough and we have had a skate-a-thon.

Any new ideas anyone has would be apprieciated.

Thanks,
Elaine

I don't know your location, but do you have a Bruster's Ice Cream near you? For my son's orchestra at high school, we sold books from them...buy one get one...They were a big hit! Good luck! ~Lisa

I live in Massachusetts and we don't have that store here but thankyou anyways

1.Spaghetti Dinner- we make a large amount on this. We ask local business to support this. We never spend a dime on anything.
2. American girl will donate one doll to each non-profit org. You could auction that off
3. silent auction During the spaghetti dinner we have silent auction. To get the items to auction off we have the kids ask all the local businesses.
4. Cookie Dough sales. This is best done the beginning of November make sure cookies will be in before Thanksgiving.
5. Car Washes We have tons of Car washes
6. Camp We offer a day camp to kids in the community for one week 6 hours a day. Our kids all have to help with this. It is manditory.
7. Ebay we auction off things that we find at thrift stores.We do really well with book sets. We are always waiting for the kids so we read a lot. We package together a few books by the same author and these sell pretty good.
8. Pancake breakfast we do pretty good at this not as good as the spaghetti dinner but it is profitable.
9. Garage Sales our place is close to the flea market and we get lots of traffic on Friday and Saturday so we get out all our junk and sell it. This does ok for us
10. We also sell food at practices. Chips pop candy this makes a little.

hope this all helps

Here is an old thread on this

what does your school do for fundraisers

[1.Spaghetti Dinner- we make a large amount on this. We ask local business to support this. We never spend a dime on anything.
2. American girl will donate one doll to each non-profit org. You could auction that off

How do you go about getter an American Girl doll donated? Thanks for your help.
Clare

We heard a rumor that they did this. So one of the girls emailed them. They sent it once they received our non-profit tax id number. It was pretty easy to do.

I can find out more if you would like.

I will try emailing them with our tax id first, I will let you know if I need anymore help.
Thanks!

One of our local Burger Kings lets the Fundraising kids work all day and they get half the profit from all day sales which is great. This Burger King is one of the busiest in the area and the kids make quite a bit.
One of my sons soccer teams has a Submarine Sandwich Sale every 6 months which makes a lot of money too. Businesses donate, rolls, meats, cheeses, condiments and all the paper products that are used to bag up the Subs and the kids start to take orders from businesses a week before the subs are made because they go fast. If area businesses know its for the kids activities they gladly give materials to make the subs.
Our kids sell them to the government office workers downtown and this sub sale has become such a big hit downtown patrons can't wait till it comes around.

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Pancake breakfasts were always big sellers for our scout troops when I was treasurer. We never had to buy any of the "makings". We always got donations from Costco, Albertsons, Raleys, and other local grocery stores. Costco usually donated the eggs and like a $100 gift card to purchase the makings. Smart and Final also donated goods and $gc. Some stores donated specific things..such as butter, eggs or pancake mix, while others donated gifts for raffles, etc. Even McDonalds donated paper goods and the little syrup cups. We went to the Elks lodge which graciously offered us the use of their kitchen AND, they even offered us use of their memberds to do the cooking. That job was also shared by parents. We made well over $1500 each of the 3 years I served as treasurer.

Also, if you have either of these businesses in your area these are very easy to sell:
Krispy Creme cards
Papa Murphy Cards.

Good luck!

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In our area Pizza Hut has a Pizza Buffet that $2 per person that buys the buffet goes to the fundraising event. It is fast cash that night, but you need to promote it and work the event to sell the tickets. I also have Wendy's fast food have a proceeds night. I did both for 2 families that lost their homes in a fire.

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One of the most profitable ways of fund raising is to collect free items and services and then have a sale or auction. You'd be surprised at how many local companies will donate items or services in the form of gift certificates if somebody just asks them. Some won't have items to donate but will make a monetary gift instead and the sum of those contributions can actually exceed your target goal!

Some of the best contributors of items and money are local:

Lawyers- I know lawyers don't immediately jump to mind but you'd be surprised at how generous many attorneys are. A great number of them give freely of their time and money to help worth causes.
Doctors - ditto
Car sales
Drink bottlers (Coca Cola, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, etc)
Movie theaters
Doughnut places
Restaurants
Family owned stores
Family owed businesses
Pest control companies
Sports teams
Bed & breakfast inns
Golf courses
Theme parks/aquariums/water parks
Radio stations (free publicity, if nothing else and most DJs will at least mention your event on the air)

The list is of possibilities much, much longer but it's a start. All you have to do is call and ask to speak to the owner or supervisor. Tell him or her the details of your event and ask if it's possible for them to donate an item to the cause. Some will decline but you'd be surprised at how many will say yes. Anything they give is great: two tickets to a movie, a free appetizer, a round of golf, a round of putt putt, etc. Don't forget to call places that specialize in higher priced items; an art gallery might donate stationary or calendars of the artist's work.

I don't know how large your event is but this method works equally well for small and large events. Your total is pretty much decided by how generous your local community is and by how much effort you want to spend soliciting items.

Good luck!

several years ago when my dd was in collage she contacted Ghirardelli chocolates, and asked them if they would donate on e of their 10 pound chocolate b ars for their fund raiser, and they did! her group sold raffle tickets for $1 and made over $300, here is their web site but I would suggest talking to them!
Ghirardelli :: Home

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Thanks,
Those are some great ideas

Elaine