Does an easy, fun, inexpensive school fundraiser even exist? It does, and I've got the scoop on how your school can do this too!
Are you on the Sunshine Committee this year? Some schools call it Social Committee. Whatever the name, it serves the same purpose. Usually there is a little arm twisting at the beginning of the year to get staff members to pay their dues. If your school normally doesn't allow the staff to wear jeans, you might ask your administrator if your committee could give people who pay dues a "Jean Day Coupon" that allows teachers to wear jeans on one day of their choosing. It's like a "get out of jail" card. Through the years, there has been some grumbling at some of my schools about our committee. I think this happens when there are not clear cut guidelines. There needs to be guidelines in writing and transparency with the finances. Here are a few topics to discuss when you are ready to write some guidelines: Leadership: officers and their duties I highly recommend the treasurer giving a report at the faculty meetings at least quarterly. Boss Day in October: Will the committee purchase the gift? If so, what is the budget? Appreciation Day/Week: Which staff members do you recognize? How and what is the budget? Morale booster activities: when and budget Staff parties: When, where, budget Showers: baby/wedding - Does the committee provide anything for the shower, if so what is the budget. Is it for the first baby and first wedding or other? Death: Does the committee send something from the faculty? If so, what and what is the budget? What relationship to the staff member should it be when you do this? I.E. Immediate family member Holidays: Does the committee purchase holiday gifts for any staff members? If so, who and what is the budget? I typed up a few things that I have done at some of my schools that you might like, too. These are fun activities that boost morale. Do you have a staff member that is your PTA representative? If the PTA ask you for suggestions, you might suggest that they organize food during your conferences. I helped organize this at my daughter's middle school. Her school had a week of Parent-Teacher Conferences. Students had school for half a day and then teachers met with parents the other half. Our PTA organized food the first three days for the teachers. We knew that the teachers had conferences at different times and wouldn't eat at the same time so the food had to stay fresh for a long time. We organized a salad bar one day, a nacho bar another day, and heavy appetizers the final day. This was the most popular thing that our committee organized. Click HERE to download this freebie. Looking for more tips? Check out my Beginning of the Year Pinterest board. Click on the picture below. Fern has a few tips to share with you, too. Be sure to hop over to her blog! Each week, Fern and I will share a teacher tip. We love to read teacher blogs and the latest teacher idea books and hope you do, too! Stop by Fern's blog and my blog each week for our latest tips. We hope you will share your ideas, too. Each week we will choose one person who shared a tip on our blog who will get a $10 shopping trip. We will announce the winner on the following Tuesday's post. Click HERE to read Melinda's tip. Do you have a staff morale booster tip to share? Be sure to include your email so I can contact you if you're the winner of the $10 shopping trip. You must leave your email address in order to win. Looking for more ideas? Click on the pictures below. An InLinkz Link-up Sources to make my blog post graphics can be found HERE. Click HERE to read my blog's disclosure statement.
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A few weeks ago, I made a "Faithful" Family Feud church game and asked 50 questions. One of them was about fundraisers you do in your church. I got such a plethora of answers, and I have seen the question posted (What fundraisers does your church do?) over and over again in multiple Educator facebook groups; that I decided to write a blog with all the ideas I received! I also went through all the groups I'm in and got past answers and ideas. Maybe one of these will spark a new idea for your church! 1. Selling pine needles - this was big in one of my churches in NC for a number of years. It requires a lot of volunteers, it goes on for months, but it yielded $10,000. If you can get the manpower, it's a great option. 2. Baked goods sale - this was a hugely popular one, but when I've done it in the past, it didn't bring in tons of money. Coupling it with another fundraiser would be a good idea. 3. Spaghetti dinner/Dinner/Chili cook off - This was also a top answer. I turned the spaghetti dinner into a meatball cook off at one church and this was a lot of fun! Each table had a different crockpot with meatballs and you could go around and try each one. You had to pay to eat, plus there were cans at each table where you used "coins" to vote for the meatballs you liked best - so a double whammy ;) I thought "meatballs" were more kid friendly than chili - and not as spicy lol. It ended up being a pretty good fundraiser and we gave the winner a donated giftcard to an Italian restaurant :) 4. Bridge Tournament - Ok, this may sound weird, but bear with me! I heard about this somewhere and attempted it at one of my churches. If Bridge is popular where you are (this may go over better in the south?), this is a very simple fundraiser and you make quite a bit of money. You need an organizer that knows how Bridge is played, then you need to get volunteers to provide some yummy finger foods. Find a nice venue (someone's house? church?) and buy a couple of prizes for first and second place. You charge $25 per person ($50 per team), so you earn $100 per table. In our small-ish church, I think we had 6 tables playing so we earned $600 (minus $50 for the prizes we bought). It was very little set up and preparation, it only lasted a few hours and there was very little clean up. So, we earned $550 for 2-3 hours of work :) If you have a larger church, you could easily double that! 5. Car Wash - This was another top answer. I'm not sure this yields much money, but it's popular and the kids/youth enjoy doing it :) lol Saw one church actually did this during the church service. 6. Garage sale/Rummage Sale - I'll admit. I hate these lol. It's SOOOO much work and preparation and sometimes you make hardly anything. One church I worked at collected items all year and spent the entire week leading up to the sale preparing items. They earned $5000-6000 so I guess it was worth it - but I can think of funner ways to earn that much lol. 7. Pancake Dinner/Breakfast - this was the last suggestion that got more than five votes. I've also done this before. Like the spaghetti dinner, it's easy prep work and not tons of clean up. Depending on how many you serve, this can be a pretty productive fundraiser - especially if you pair with another (like the car wash or yard sale so they eat while they are already there). 8. Wall of Envelopes/Wall o Money - I've seen this done and, believe it or not, it's pretty effective. We needed to fundraise for a mission trip and our organizer put up envelopes all over a bulletin board with items that we would need to purchase for the trip. So, some envelopes said $10 Hammer, or $50 paint can, etc. It was a great visual and people felt like they were contributing "things" and not just money. For the first couple of years, this worked really well. 9. Church Cookbook 10. Flamingo Flocking - I have always wanted to do this! 😂 But I'm weird like that ;) lol I saw one church did it with a pink toilet ;) 11. Pumpkin Patch 12. Auction/Silent Auction 13. Other Food sales - Boston Butt, Soup, fudge, fish fry, bar-b-que, tacos (this probably depends on your region) 14. Carnival - Could pair this with an activity you already do - like maybe your fall festival? 15. Special Offering - some churches skip fundraisers and just ask for a special offering for things they need. I saw one church who used to do a special offering for their family mission trip. The kids would dress up in their past tshirts and walk around with big orange work buckets asking for money. Worked pretty well :) 16. Children's camp/VBS - evidently some churches use profits from these camps as a fundraiser! 17. Escape Room - this is something I wanted to do (and I've seen others talk about doing something similar), but then COVID got in the way and I never followed through. I've written many religious escape rooms and they aren't too hard to set up (etsy link to bundle of 6 non-holiday escape rooms). I wrote a Christmas one and wanted to set up one of our rooms at the church just for this. Families/small groups (no more than 8-10) could sign up during the week or on the weekend to complete the escape room together. Escape rooms tend to charge around $20 per person. I was going to charge half that - $10 per person and then some kind of discount for a group of ten (like a maximum of $75?). They get one hour to "escape". If you were open 5 hours a week for 3 weeks, you could potentially make $1000. It costs around $50 max to set up (and that's if you buy all the bells and whistles). 18. Christmas Store for kids - I started doing this with the kids at our church and community, because their schools stopped doing it. They had no where to buy gifts for their families and friends! I bought items on sale after christmas (and throughout the year) and then sold them the next year. I didn't do it as a fundraiser - I just did it to help out our kids - but you could easily bump up the price 50 cents-$1 on items and make some money. 19. Selling flowers - One church talked about getting flowers/hanging baskets at wholesale from a local greenhouse and they sold them at the end of August as a fundraiser. 20. Fellowship nights - I wrote a blog of over 20 ideas for intergenerational fellowship activities. You could charge for basically any of these and turn it into a fundraiser! (paint night, movie night, etc!) 21. Restaurant nights - many local restaurants are now offering 20% or so of the proceeds for one evening when people go there from your church. Just an FYI, we took a mission trip to Peru and did one of these nights at a peruvian restaurant. After talking with the owner (who was peruvian and was so on board with what we were doing), he ended up giving us 100% of the proceeds! Not everyone will be this generous, but maybe try and look for restaurants that may be connected with what you're fundraising for. 22. Coffee bar/breakfast on Sunday mornings 23. 5k Fun Run 24. Easter "Egging" - This was by far my FAVORITE fundraiser I've ever done - because it was also an outreach <3 (see my blogpost about it for more details). For $10 we hid a dozen stuffed eggs in someone's yard for you. For $20 we did 2 dozen and $30 we did 3 dozen. We gave lots of options - you could ask for only candy or only prizes (we had some with special diets), we offered baskets instead of hiding them, and for an extra $5 we would hide them Easter Eve (otherwise we delivered them the week before Easter). We tried this during Covid, we didn't advertise much, and it was our first year. Without really trying, we made $500! And neighbors bought for neighbors, elderly members bought for grandkids, kids bought for grandparents, elderly bought for elderly! It was so beautiful! And I loved delivering them :) This was our sign up that we used if you'd like to see how we did it. You can't see the actual sign up, but you can read our instructions. 25. M&M tubes - A few churches said they've handed out M&M mini tubes and asked people to eat the snack, then return the empty container with quarters! A word of caution from one Educator - do this with adults - not youth and kids (otherwise you'll get way more eaters than donaters! 😂) lol 26. Pie in the face - the ever popular pie in the face fundraiser (or something similiar). You put a jar out for different staff people and see who raises the most money in their jars. Whoever does, gets a pie in the face ;) 27. Grocery stores - I know many stores do this for schools and evidently some do it for churches or other organizations. You connect your grocery card to an organization and part of the proceeds go to that place. 28. Photo Shoots - if you have a professional photographer in your church willing to donate a few hours, you could offer some time slots for a price and the pics get emailed to them. 29. Sponsor a child - (this is great for trips) 30. Advent Boxes - many give these out to families, but you could make it a fundraiser as well! Especially if your church does a holiday bazaar! 31. Golf Tournament/Golf Scramble 32. Rock-a-thon - This is another one I always wanted to do, but it never got off the ground. It is SOOO simple and raises quite a bit of money. It's like any other "a-thon" except it's rocking chairs :) You form teams of 4 people and for 2 hours, one person in your group HAS to have their butt in the chair and be rocking :) Each member of the group is asked to raise $50 worth of sponsors so each group raises a minimum of $200. Each team gets a section of the room to decorate and there is a theme (sports teams, Bible stories, Book characters, etc). People can go around and vote (with coins) for the best "decked out" rocking chair space and costumes :) My old church does this and they earn $2-3000 EASY. And it's only 2 hours of your time! no set up or clean up. They did it after church one sunday and included a bake sale/lunch that could be bought. Seriously great fundraiser that any age could do! 33. Movie Theater fundraiser - many theaters will let you rent out one theater for an evening. You can pick the movie. We did this and it cost around $500 or so for the theater. The theater sat close to 100 people so if you charge $5 a ticket you break even. If you charge $7 a ticket and sell them all, you make a profit. Our local schools did this as well. We didn't do it as a fundraiser for our church and ended up losing $150 or so - but we did it as an outreach and didn't charge that much. At our theater, they also allowed you to sell snacks and baked goods outside the theater! 34. Parent Night out - we started this right before COVID as an outreach and we were breaking even every night - even after feeding the kids pizza and paying for childcare! I think you could definitely make this a fundraiser. 35. Church shirts - We bought 50 long sleeve shirts with our church logo on it. We bought them for $10 each and sold them for $20 each. We sold almost all of them! My only bit of advice is to buy more XL's than you think :) lol 36. Kids' consignment sale - a lot of work, but can be very profitable. 37. Asking for donations but use a visual - The visual reminder and motivation always helps - We had a quarter tube that was 3 feet tall at our VBS to raise money for Heiffer International and the kids LOVED dropping the quarters in the tubes and begged their parents for quarters :) I've also seen thermometers on the wall to measure how much they've raised, pie charts, etc. 38. Soup in a jar kits/Cookies in a jar kits - kids and youth can help put these together! Great Christmas gifts! 39. "Noisy offering" - a few churches have posted about this and it sounds like a fun idea :) If you are raising money for the kids' ministry, you give the kids metal cans (with lids) and have them go around and collect "noisy" money from the congregants...all the while shaking their cans! 😂 Those that have done this say the kids LOVE making all the noise and the adults enjoy it as well (and they raise quite a bit!). 40. Selling boxed lunches after church for people to take home 41. "A-thons!" - fish, verse, hymn, bike, etc. 42. Raffle 43. Trivia Night 44. Youth wrapping Christmas fundraiser 45. Art Auction - ages preschool - ?? can participate! One church raised over $10,000 with this! 46. Superbowl Sunday - make and take pizzas or subs 47. Selling stock - youth fundraiser 48. Go Fund me if you're raising money for a particular object/trip. 49. Raking leaves or other service project. 50. Strange but easy and effective fundraiser - selling bottles of water for $1 before and after the service! I challenge you to look through the list and see which ones you could pair together! For example, for Superbowl Sunday, you could meet right after church to do the "rock a thon" - and make it a sports team theme where everyone decorates their area with their fave sports team. Then, have a sub make and take where they can eat it there and/or take some with them for the big game! Add in selling waters and a bake sale for dessert and you've got 4 fundraisers at the same time! :) :) Hope this helps someone!! Thanks for all the ideas! :)
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Winter magic is in the air! Christmas lights are starting to twinkle, the nights are snowy and cozy, and the anticipation of santa is in every child's mind. The holidays are right around the corner. This time of year is perfect for hosting a memorable and special holiday fundraiser to raise funds in anticipation of events and activities for the remainder of the school year! Every year, school PTO/PTA groups need to make decisions on their major seasonal fundraisers. The holiday winter season is especially important since it's the time when people usually feel the most charitable and are likely to...
