Go Green Fundraising is here to change the world of student fundraising. As bold as that may sound, it is very true. Our goal is to take the concept of school fundraisers and make them about more than just raising money while still actually raising the money that your school needs.
Student fundraising has traditionally been what most participants would describe as a less than thrilling experience. The typical school fundraisers consist of selling holiday items like wrapping paper or peddling cookie dough, candy, and other unhealthy items. The fact is, most of your customers have a closet full of wrapping paper and there is cookie dough from the fundraiser last year and the year before growing freezer burn on it in the refrigerator.
The traditional student fundraising ideas that you may be accustomed to doing rarely have any educational value. They are focused solely on raising as much money as quickly as possible. But while raising money is obviously the ultimate goal of any fund raiser, if you are going to put in the hours and effort to have a successful program, don’t you want more from it than just money?
Our student fundraising programs consist of items that are organic, all natural, healthy and good for the planet. We offer things like fair trade coffees, organic foods, flower bulbs and trees, reusable shopping bags and Smencils. We have chosen our products based on their eco-friendly nature and also because they are great selling items that allow us to give your group a high fundraising profit percentage. What is truly amazing about these products is the level of excitement that our groups’ customers have reacted with. For the first time in a very long time people are excited to buy a fundraising product. They are thrilled with the idea of buying something they can actually use.
One of the most exciting things for us is the educational aspect of our student fundraising programs. We firmly believe that even the smallest changes in each of our lives can have a profoundly positive impact on our planet. Our products offer ways to make just such changes and to teach your students about their individual impact.
One great example of the kinds of things you can teach comes from our reusable shopping bags fundraisers. Each bag eliminates, on average, the use of 50 disposable plastic bags every year. Now think, if you go to a large school with more than 500 students and each person sells just one bag that is 25,000 bags you have kept out of landfills every year. Talk about a profound impact and a great lesson.
Other educational ideas that you can use include the value of trees (our Tree fundraiser), what happens to recycled items (Smencils), and the importance of eating healthy foods (our Healthy Foods fundraiser).
For questions about any of our earth friendly student fundraising programs please call us at 877-448-9746
