[DirtyBird213]

Here is what team 213 did to raise money this year. First in July we sell refreshments at the local fair in the grandstands during events, such as the demolition derby, we did this for 5 days, had a lot of rain and made $1,600.00. We are hoping for less rain this year, and the fair association is looking into us selling 50/50 tickets there as well. In October we sell coffee and hot chocolate (which is usually donated to us) at our towns annual Pumpkin Festival. Our town holds the world record for having the most lit jack-o-lanterns in one area (25,000+ it is so cool to see). In one night we raised $850.00. At both of these events we showcase our robots, we even tried to sell drive time on the machine but found that it was mostly little kids and they did more harm than good to our machines. Our next fundraiser was the Boston Coffee catalog sales. Bad timing before the holidays when every elementary school is also doing catalog sales. We did make $800.00. This was followed by the famous pizza cards that I mentioned above with a $750.00 profit. We hosted the magic show which I mentioned already, that raised $1,600.00. We are in the process of doing a raffle right now. One of our parents donated an Xbox or Playstation 2 for the top prize. We have 45 other prizes that were also donated. We are hoping to make $1,200.00 on this. We made $950.00 by soliciting donations from local companies. Here is a new fundraiser we are thinking of doing this summer as well, The International Speedway in Loudon NH which hosts Nascar races hires non profit groups to help clean the stands after the Winston Cup races. If we have 20 people from our group go to clean for the 4 days they need (the time averages 4 hours) they will donate $7.00/hour per kid. We figured it out to be $3,300.00 for 16 hours of work.
I hope some of this helps your team, and good luck with the fund-raising.