<p>My junior class is looking for some unique and interesting prom fundraisers.
Any crazy fundraisers your kid’s school has done or any tried and true?
We need the cash!! :)</p>
<p>Our junior class hosts a pancake dinner before one of the biggest basketball games of the season. It’s fun because the chef flips the pancakes onto your plate.</p>
<p>One school around here does. “mr. High school” contest. It is hilarious…a spoof of Miss America. There is talent, questions, walk down the runway. Each contestant pays to be IN the pageant, and audience members pay an entrance fee to attend.</p>
<p>Our high school does this for its post graduation party:</p>
<p>[Pink</a> Flamingo Flocking Fundraiser](<a href=“http://www.flamingofundraising.com%5DPink”>http://www.flamingofundraising.com)</p>
<p>One easy idea that my kids’ school does is sell tickets for Pajama Day. Students each pay $5 so that they can come to school the next Friday in their PJ’s (there are modesty rules to follow…lol). </p>
<p>this takes little to no effort, and students will pay $5 to come to school in their PJs and slipppers. </p>
<p>Raffles are another way to raise easy money. Something of value is purchased (or donated) and raffled off. Discounts are given to those who buy multiple tickets (one ticket may be $5, but 3 tickets sell for a total of $10). It the prized item is something adults would want, too, then you can sell more tickets. </p>
<p>50/50 drawings. people buy tickets, and then a ticket is drawn and that person wins half of the “take”. We do this at Basketball and Football games, and the winner is announced at half-time. </p>
<p>Bingo Night for the adults. Include a bake sale during the event.</p>
<p>50/50 drawing sounds like a piece of cake!
I live in the city with nothing but high rises. But the flamingo-ing would be awesome. </p>
<p>We were thinking about doing the class that raises the most gets early lunch, early release, stuff like that. Anyone have any other incentives?</p>
<p>Curious. Where did you get the pancakes from?</p>
<p>My youngest kid’s high school class did group babysitting for a fundraiser. What they did was to get permission to use a local church fellowship building (area with a large open space) and they advertised that they would do babysitting for kids ages 3-11 while parents went shopping (they did this on three consecutive Saturdays before Christmas). They also offered babysitting services before several town-wide events that weren’t kid-friendly. Parents knew that it was a fundraiser and some gave “tips” in addition to paying the fees for babysitting.</p>
<p>You need to make sure you have a fair number of kids who will babysit and the kids who babysit will need to bring games, books, toys, and have ideas for keeping their charges occupied. The kids babysitting charged $25 per kid for each session 9am-12 and 1pm-4.</p>
<p>Teams at our school have regularly raised about $10k selling cookie dough … and that from the efforts of about 30 people! We used Adrenaline Fundraising … [Adrenaline</a> Fundraising custom fundraising for athletic programs](<a href=“http://adrenalinefundraising.com/]Adrenaline”>http://adrenalinefundraising.com/). That was $10k NET from 30 people.</p>
<p>Not sure about your local regulations, but in our town, we need to get a permit for raffles and 50/50s, as they are considered gaming. It’s not a problem, but you just need to apply a week or two in advance at town hall. (Welcome to NJ).</p>
<p>Yep…check your state regulations for raffles and auctions. Our state requires a permit for any raffle where tickets are sold in advance of the event.</p>
<p>I actually live abroad so Im pretty sure there’s gonna be some regulations.
Has anyone had success with community basketball tournaments?
Would a golf tournament be difficult?</p>
<p>Golf tournaments are expensive unless the golf course completely donates the space.</p>
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<p>We use a catering company that supplies and cooks the pancakes and probably the sausages and eggs. Parents help serve. It would be cheaper to do it yourself, but we’re pretty careful with the permits, etc. This type of meal is fairly inexpensive, so you can mark it up quite a bit.</p>
<p>Our school just asks for a donation from junior/senior parents. It is put in as an “optional fee” on our on-line school fees (public school). A lot of people will donate (around $50 or more) just so they don’t have to bother with fundraisers. This keeps the prom tickets fairly cheap (about $25).<br>
Some groups do finals week “care packages” (snack bags). They are delivered to kids during school, so parents will order them for their kids, kids order them for friends and teachers, etc. They have a “junk food” option (candy/chips, etc.) and a “healthy” (granola bars, whole grain crackers, etc.) option, and the sender can include a message. They charge about $6 each, and I’ve heard it is a good fundraiser for the groups that do this.</p>
<p>How about a quiz bowl competition for the community?</p>
<p>Our kids offered a couple of “parents nights out” in November and December so that parents could go shopping or on a date night. They were able to use the school’s community room and gym. They ran all kinds of activities–crafts, face painting, cookie decorating, video game contests, some sports activities. They charged like $20/child.</p>
<p>These ideas are great!
We are only allowed one big community fundraiser a quarter so about three a year.
Have you done any small fundraisers within the schools. Maybe something that can be done every other week.
We were thinking about doing donuts and coffee for the teacher or raffling of gourmet lunches (we have a restaurant to sponsor) to the departments at our school</p>