We are looking for suggestions on "new" fundraisers. Kind of an out with the old and in with the new situation. Something original, rather than the typical fundraisers where the students have to sell magazines, cookie dough, candy, or a catalog full of over-priced merchandise.

If anyone has any fun, new and creative ideas of fundraisers that worked for your school, we would love to hear from you!

Thank you!

Look at Soy By Amy website. She is located in Georgia and has awesome soy candles. Allison will do EVERYTHING for you, including individually packing each order if you want her to. She gives 50% back to you...we just raised over $1000 with 15 cheerleaders selling. Hope this helps...good luck!

The above was posted in another topic. Amy is sending us candles for our auction.

Hello,

You can list your school with the TheRewardsProject site. Everyday purchases benefit your school all thru the year. Typical earnings are $5-10,000 a school year. This can easily be implemented in addition to any other fundraisers you are doing.
You just post a banner on your site & promote thru your Newsletters. They will even custom design a banner for your school if desired. Promotional tools are available in the Resources section. They are based out of Illinois but will list a school or organization in any state.

Our K-8th grade school has been holding our Jog-A-thon Fundraiser for 5 years now and it has been consistantly the best fundraiser ever for our school. We started small and have tweeked it to our liking the last 2 years. We split the school (K-4th/5th -8th grade) & hold 1 event for the day - older kids in the AM, younger kids in the afternoon (One day for volunteers). We send our pledge sheets home 2 weeks prior, ask for volunteers 2-6 months ahead of time, and have staff, students, and families walking/running on a 1/4 mile track, set up by the gym teacher, for 45min-1 hour. A DJ/music is a big hit with donated water bottles and color coded t-shirts & lap cards to keep track of # laps run. It's a BIG day but we always meet our goal (over $20,000) of profit (magically enough) to support the year for our school of 750 students! There are so many different ways to do this fun, healthy, family/staff-included event! If you promote & plan it right (many months ahead of time, with many volunteers needed), it can be a HUGE joy for all! We don't even look at any other big fundraisers anymore.
Good luck!

I just learned of a new site called PlayToGive. They help you set-up online game contests where your students play a crossword puzzle or other fun/stimulating games and ask their friends and family to sponsor them with donations. Think of it as a game-a-thon, I think it would be very much out of the box and creative.

The best part is the school keeps 85% of the money raised and there are no up front costs!! Setting up the event does not require much time either. I think it's worth trying them out!

Good luck, please share back what new fundraiser you decide on!

You may want to check out this art fundraising site that allows PTOs/PTAs, rec groups and other non profits to raise money all year with an affiliate site or just do a short term fundraiser. Instead of trying to sell thing to parents they might not necessarily want OR need parents can choose from a variety of useful items available and put their kids original artwork onto the item. They have everything from mugs, to T-shirts, to magnets and the nonprofit can set their own profit margin on the items. There are no costs to get involved and if you choose an on-line fundraiser you can streamline ordering. You can even just customize products with your groups logo or art and sell those items.

its called Kidizmo