It tends to be much easier to find good fundraising ideas for schools than it is to find good fundraising ideas for other kinds of groups. This is because, with a school fundraiser, you typically have a large number of participants who are invested in the outcome of the fund raiser and who are accustomed to the fund raising process. So because you have a good base of sellers to work with, you have a much wider range of fundraiser ideas that can make sense and that are very profitable.
Narrowing down the multitude of good and even great ideas for fundraising out there can seem daunting but it doesn’t have to be a difficult process. The first step to take is to decide what kind of fundraisers your school wants to do. School fundraisers are typically divided into ‘free to start’ and ‘high profit’ programs. The free fundraisers are brochure based and do not cost anything to start which is the main selling point for many schools. On the other hand, the high profit fundraisers do cost money to start but as their name implies, they typically offer a much better fundraising profit. The choice is fully up to your school but deciding can help narrow the scope of the available choices by half.
You will also want to check on the seasonality of the fundraising ideas for schools that you are interested in. Some programs, like our flower fundraiser, are not available a few months out of the year but that is only to insure freshness of the bulbs and allows us to guarantee that they will grow.
Once you have decided on the type of fundraiser and made sure that it is available, you will want to look at minimums and profit margins and shipping costs. At Go Green Fundraising, we have a number of programs with a minimum profit margin of 50% for your school and we have free shipping on every fundraising order that meets our low minimums.
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