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We are looking for new fund raisers. Anyone do anything different than the typical cookie dough, coupon books, wrapping paper? Also, how do you drum up interest for your PTA meetings?

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  • Our PTA does a fall festival every year in Oct and a walk-a-thon every spring. They raise quite a lot from ticket sales for the fall festival. We have food, games, inflatables, and silent auction. Most of the food is donated and the inflatables are given for a very discounted price. Each class does a basket for the silent auction. So most of the profit is actual profit. For the walk-a-thon, the kids get pledges, either flat rates or rate per lap walked. They make it really fun for the kids and raised over $10,000 last year.
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  • Fall fair, silent auction, parent date night (parents pay to have casino night or night at a resort with donated food and drinking), dinner at the local biker bar (owners have 3 kids at the school), Olympic day (straight donation and kids play all day).
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  • Honestly- our school has the best fundraiser. They send a letter home and asks each family who has the means to send a check for $50. This way, we don't need to do an annoying fundraiser at all during the year. It's called an unfundraiser. The private preschool DD goes to does a silent auction and between paying a sitter, buying our tickets, etc, it's a crazy expensive night for us.
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  • DS1's school does gift card sales.  We can get them to pretty much anywhere and they get a percentage of the amount.  
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  • We do a walk/run a thon in the spring. We actually hired a company to run it. They were amazing and we made a ton of money.
  • Flower sale, silent auction, and fun run (similar to walk-a-thon with pledges)

    They also do family nights at restaurants...the restaurants will donate a percentage of their sales when you mention the school name.
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  • I recommend Boosterthon.
  • We do a walk/run a thon in the spring. We actually hired a company to run it. They were amazing and we made a ton of money.
    Was it Boosterthon?? Please tell me no.
  • lightgetsinlightgetsin member
    edited August 2013
    We just send a check. They got rid of wrapping paper etc. sales a few years ago. They get more money now. They will have drawings for a tv or computer or something for families who donate over a certain amount.

    We also do the usual like spring carnival and restaurant night.
  • They started Boosterthon last year. It did super well. The next one's tomorrow.
    They do Market Day (order food through a company and a % goes to the school) once a month.
    Restaurant nights once a month.
    The kids do Showcase once a month which is where people come during the day and the kids sing songs they learn in music class. It's pretty neat. The music teacher has a box people can put donations in at the end each time (the "begging box" lol). Last year they raised enough to buy new speakers to use during assemblies/showcase/etc.
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  • How involved is your Boosterthon @iloveboys ? I'm beginning to think since it was started here, we might get "special" attention, which I don't want. How much did y'all raise?
  • Hav=Fath said:
    Ask chapter if she knows the art one her school does, it sounded pretty awesome.
    This is it!

    https://www.originalworks.com/

    LOVE it.  I still have the mug from grade K my DD did. And last year I got a travel mug. It's everyone's favorite.. lots and lots of people order. 
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    (+ hers and his, ages 13 & 8)
    TTC
  • KateMW said:
    How involved is your Boosterthon @iloveboys ? I'm beginning to think since it was started here, we might get "special" attention, which I don't want. How much did y'all raise?
    @KateMW I'm not sure how much we raised this year. The money is due Friday. I'm not sure what you mean by how involved is it? The kids meet with the Boosterthon people each afternoon leading up to the run, learning about feelgoods (Don't give up, be nice, blah blah etc). Then the day of the run the run is about 45 minutes per grade. 
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  • The football teams do a big end of summer festival thing. Food, games, prizes, etc. They have like a pizza truck come and taco truck, and all the jazz.
    For the book things they send home, i always like the candle ones. But im in the mood for some new fall candles.
  • Also, Paintnite is super popular around here now a days. Its not a fundraiser but it could work as one for parents.
    I dont know if they do paintnites everywhere but, the tickets for like 40$ each, they are held at local bars and restaurants and a artist comes in a teaches you how to paint a certain pictures. The canvas paint and brushes are all there for you. Its a super fun nights, and i bet if you could get a artist to donate there time people would sign up for that. 
  • MesmrEweMesmrEwe member
    edited September 2013

    I MUCH prefer the "unfundraiser" option that a PP posted!  I'm also one who HATES "mandatory donations" that the previous school DD attended required, so an option to get out of those type of events was much preferred (that school was something else! these events weren't "donate to the school" they were ceiling cleaner high society one-up-manship events that had a mandatory minimum that each family was REQUIRED to give and coming from a background of give because you can not for status type personalities it wasn't an enjoyable experience to attend these things..).  I'd rather have the straight forward option instead...  Or you could ask for sponsorships from families "Sponsor cookies for new Kindergarten day $50" similar to bridal cash registries... 

    The DCP we use has a "Harvest Fest" every Halloween (right around Thursday before from ~5-7, so you're never giving up a weekend - and NEVER on Halloween night!)..  They just do a kids Halloween party with something for each age/level...  Baby room they have a family picture area with someone serving as the photographer and "free will donation" (they send the pics to your email), face painting (nothing above your basic fumble your way through a butterfly)...  Next age is knock over the whatever (bottles/plastic bowling pins), on up to a "Silent Auction" room and then the oldest room is a non-freaky "haunted house" that's dimly lit using things like glow sticks then the cardboard boxes have windows drawn/cut open on them have things you're suppose to reach into (i.e. jello type slime concoction, cold noodles, etc. with textures)..  It's something that is different from the everyone has a fall festival, and the fact that it's during the week...

    I'll put it out there...  "Mom & Dad's Dinner Out" - offer a 4-hour babysitting on Valentine's Day or just before Christmas for kids age 3-11 (i.e. potty trained so you don't have that dynamic), reservations required...  Activities in the gym (Open gym, artsy/craft activity... $20/child and $80 max/family...  Provide pizza/juice/snack... 

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