subject: Fundraising Suggestions For Your School [print this page] Many schools today use fundraising to make up for budget shortfalls. These fundraising efforts may be flagging though and bringing in less money. It is critical that the boosters and PTA fundraisers meet their goals. This has lead to a focus on three sure thing fundraising ideas.
Cookie Dough Fundraising - This is a very popular fundraiser. Generally, selling cookie dough is very lucrative for a school organization.
Most people are willing to purchase cookie dough. It is reasonably priced, just about everyone likes cookies, and most people are willing to buy the dough to support a school. Cookie dough sales tops the list of easy fundraisers, when schools are looking for a sure bet.
Scratch Card Fundraising - Schools that sell scratch cards as fundraisers do very well. These sales can really boost school revenues. The coupon savings inside the cards also helps the cards to sell quickly.
Unfortunately, there is generally a startup cost to this fundraiser. That's the case with cookie dough fundraising as well. The profit margin for fundraising with this technique is around 70%. You can knock down some of the pre-sale costs through careful planning and pre-selling, though.
Online Fundraising - Schools, booster clubs, and PTAs now take advantage of the opportunities available via the Internet to raise money for schools. This is now the most popular way for raising money.
The upside to online fundraising is that it is completely free. There is no up-front cost to this fundraising. Every time someone shops online, they can donate a portion of their purchase to their favorite school organization. There is no additional cost. Because of this it is very lucrative.
Of all of the many thousands of ways that schools host fundraisers, these three listed have been the most successful. Cookie dough and scratch card fundraisers are still very popular and do quite well, but increasingly schools are using online fundraising to meet financial goals.
