Fundraising Ideas - Need Some to Share

[Hailfire]

Our team has considered finding and gathering empty pop cans from our school, people we know, etc. Then we turn them in at grocery stores to get money and use them toward our many needs. Basically our team decided to do this weekly. It may not sound like a good idea but worth a try.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by Hailfire
Our team has considered finding and gathering empty pop cans from our school, people we know, etc. Then we turn them in at grocery stores to get money and use them toward our many needs. Basically our team decided to do this weekly. It may not sound like a good idea but worth a try.

This only works if you live in a state where they pay for old pop bottles. They don't here...

[purplehaze357]

well our team is currently in the midst of three ongoing fundraisers...well one was a one night thing but and is now over but was very successful...we are selling pretzels and soda afterschool, selling wawa cupons and we sponsered a halloween dance...

pretzels and soda - is an everyday fundraser where we set-up a table with pretzels and sell them for $0.50 a piece and as the kids are walking out they pick up a pretzel and soda...we only have permission to do this for one quarter...and is successful...we sell the pretzels out daily and thats 75 a day....and then how ever many sodas we decide to set out.

WaWa Cupons - ok to all of u non-northern-east-coast people that dont know what WaWa is....its sorta like a glorified convienient store...its huge up here and we all love it...so they sell like hoagies and the such..well we are selling hoagie cupons for their 6" hoagies that are $3.00 a piece, you save $0.40,and we get a dollar per cupon sold....its a very good fundraiser and did well last year

Halloween Dance- We heard about teams last year sponsoring dances and our school doesnt have enough dances as is so we decided it would be benificial to sponsor our own halloween dance since the school doesnt have one regurlarly and we needed a fundraiser....we made $1,500 for one nght of work, which was a lot of fun too...that was so worth it...i hope we do it again.....we charged $5 at the door....it was nice

Joe Troy Jr.
Team 357
Royal Assault

2003- Return of the Jester

[Shawn60]

We like to make money in bunches. We do some fundraisng at school, penny drives, sell candy, etc. But the best way for us to make money is through business presentations. We send out letters of introductoin, follow up with a call to set the appointment, make a presentation, follow up with thank you notes, and an invoice for the donation. We have worked on 15 companies thus far and have received $6,000 in a month and a half, commitments for another $6,000 or so, and two more companies who want us to get back to them to set up presentations. In Az we made it manditory that each team member come up with $200 in tax credits. With the tax credits we have earned about another $5,000. We also have local comapnies donate another $2,000 to $3,000 in parts and supplies for the robot.

[johnscans]

we held a lan at our school, charge about 20 dolalrs to enter, hold it for a whole day, order a few pizzas(include pizza and drink in price)(get pizza place to sponser. . .most will). we had loads of fun fragging each other and it helped to untie our team as well as meet new ppl from nearby school districts. also holding computer education classes for adults is a great idea as many older ppl would love to ahve the oppertunity to lear a/b computers.

john
team 1019