FundRaising Ideas: Getting Away From Candy

With the year beginning, we need to think about fundraising ideas and how to get the money the schools need to keep running. My school, and many others around the country, are going candy free. This means that using candy for a fundraiser is not in alignment with policy.

Candy and cookies have been a staple of school fundraising for so long, what are we to do? There are many options, but you might have to be a little more creative. Some organizations, such as ezfund.com have many options for your fundraiser. You can choose from healthy snacks, to knick knacks, from soy candles to pencils. They even have consultants available to help you along the way.

Group fundraising can be for any size group, from the underwater basket weaving club to the entire district. You can offer prize incentives to the students, or encourage them to do it for the good of the school. How you run the fundraiser is up to you, but sometime during the year, you will probably have a fundraiser. That is, unless you are in one of the schools that do not allow fundraisers :S Not sure what to do in those cases...