School Fundraisers

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

Curious what fundraisers your school has done that have been successful. I am not a fan, personally, but need to come up with some ideas and curious what ones have worked well. I should suggest charging each time a student comes down for something ridiculous ? I'd make a lot!

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

There are so many here, its hard to list them all. Different departments each do different ones, I'm not directly responsible for any of them, thank goodness! Elementary does alot of food ones - cookie dough, pizza's, etc. Junior class sells magazines for Prom every year. FFA sells fruit baskets and wreaths around Christmas time. Each sport sells clothing items (tshirts/sweatshirts/pants) with our school logo at the begininng of their season and then about twice a year, the school does a generic "athletics" or just "ABC School" type clothing. These are very popular with both staff and community.

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

One grade sold school spirit wear which prompted an additional dress down day at the beginning of the week as long as you wear your spirit wear item.

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Our high schoolers and parents work together on "festivals" twice a year. Kids buy tickets for games/treats. The high schoolers put a lot of effort into creating fun games the younger kids will want to play...though last year there was one that highly resembled beer pong.

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I am at an elementary and we use Boosterthon in the fall - they come in and run the whole program. I think we get 50% of whatever is raised - average is about $35-40,000 per year.

We also have a spring dance with silent auction and carnival type of games. I don't know how much we raise from that but it seems like it is successful since we do it every year.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

I would suggest identifying the amount of money you want to raise and for what...send out a flyer to the parents asking for donations to achieve the goal with a bold caveat at the bottom of the flyer...ATTENTION PARENTS! IF OUR GOAL ISN'T ACHIEVED BY XYZ DATE WE WILL BE HANDING OUT FUND RAISER PACKETS TO ALL THE STUDENTS!

I haven't participated in fundraising for my kids in many years but I have donated toward the cause and glad to do it considering what a pain in the behind fundraising is!!

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I'm organizing a 5K for my kids' school this year. After 6 years of begging, I've finally WON the battle and they're letting me do it! ?

Our PTO also does annual auction, spring and fall festivals, Scholastic Book fair twice per year, taffy apples in the fall, box tops, dine out nights at local restaurants that give 15% of sales back towards the school.

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1 hour ago, OldDude said:

I would suggest identifying the amount of money you want to raise and for what...send out a flyer to the parents asking for donations to achieve the goal with a bold caveat at the bottom of the flyer...ATTENTION PARENTS! IF OUR GOAL ISN'T ACHIEVED BY XYZ DATE WE WILL BE HANDING OUT FUND RAISER PACKETS TO ALL THE STUDENTS!

Or this!! Haha!!!

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/texas-mom-shares-kind-pta-fundraising-letter/story?id=33381268

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
1 minute ago, jess11RN said:

Or this!! Haha!!!

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/texas-mom-shares-kind-pta-fundraising-letter/story?id=33381268

AMEN!! I'm in with that!!

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Specializes in Med-surg, school nursing..

I've done a bake sale for a kiddo with a brain tumor.

I really want to do a cookbook. I think it would raise a lot of money. Having the kiddos submit old family recipes and put together one book. This would be for a JDRF fundraiser.

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

Margarita machine at PTA meeting?

For choir we literally just asked for money through Snapraise. They kept 50% but they are the only approved vendor (Donor's Choice, etc. are not). I love Snapraise.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

I am PTO president at my kids school....and I feel like this is in my PTO online support group question, not my nursing one!! LOL

But, anyway, since I work at a very poor inner city school, we rarely do fundraisers. But we did sell Butter Braids and cookie dough in the fall and it went OK. They are really good if you never had them!!!

https://butterbraid.com/

Some other ideas are local restaurant nights, penny wars, spirit wear, Art-to Remember, school dance, pay $1 to wear a hat or pjs to school, candy bars (if allowed in your district) or any number of catalogues that sell stuff.

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