Home sales parties as fundraiser?

do you have Krispy Cream in your area? That's a super popular fundraiser here.

Applebees does a pancake breakfast fundraiser Flapjack Fundraisers, I think they're called

Moes and Papa Johns and Ruby Tuesdays and probably others do fundraisers where they give you a time slot (say 6-8 on a specific Tues evening) and if people eat there then and mention it's for your group, you get part of the profits.

Schwans is one way to raise funds for schools. You don't raise a ton but it is easy. Established buyers just add your code to their order. Also the truck drivers will often give the fliers to their customers when they drop off orders. This is a great way to get $ from outside sources.

Honeybaked stores will also do fundraisers. I know Easter is a bit off but people could pre-buy.

Check local businesses. One of our candy stores does 1 1b packages of fudge. You sell and get so much per box. Our Heritage Girls troop does this.

 

A lot of restaurants in our area do No-Cook Nights for fundraisers. We present a flyer at the counter or to our server and a portion of that night's sales go to the group.

We've had fundraisers hosted at:
McDonald's (they had the teachers working the line and selling apple pies in costume)
Pot Belly
Dairy Queen
Chili's
Portillo's
Applebee's
Red Robin

Bake sales.

I make jumbo cupcakes that sell for $2.50 a piece.
Those cupcakes make the group nearly a grand a year.

Raffle a prime parking space for a month.

I know this wouldn't be practical everywhere, but the big fund raiser at our small-town school was a themed Open House, where 12 houses were open to the public and there was a different restaurant in each person's kitchen offering samples of some type of food. Fun to see how the houses were decorated and to taste different foods along the way.

My boys' marching band has been doing a pizza night fundraiser through Pizza Hut. Maybe a local one will be an option for you? We've done three so far and today is our 4th where 15% of the sales go to the band. You have to show a coupon to get the money and often they'll let the group/school leave a stack of them for others to use. Each night has raised over $100 each.

We also did fundraiser through a local bakery (the owner was a band mom) where she took special orders for certain items and a certain amount from each item went back to the band.

A friend of mine sells Avon and she did a catalog party as a fundraiser for her son's baseball team.

Do you have a GFS food service near you?  Mine has candy bar fundraising boxes-- they're specifically marked for that.  (When I was in HS, practically every group sold candy bars as fundraisers because everyone could sell to their classmates... but that was a long time ago-- would they even let you do that now? Dunno. But someone apparently can!)

A car dealership gave our band $20 per driver for test drives during a particular time frame (limited to one driver per household). The kids stood next to the intersection to DRA traffic in, and we sent out flyers and emails advertising the event. Inspire of a torrential downpour during the prime test drive hours, we raised about $2500 over the four hour event.

I've attended an Applebees fundraiser by girl scouts and that was great. I have found that many home party fundraisers are not that large of a % donation unless the consultant will kick in.

My friend does a huge spaghetti dinner/bingo fundraiser for Lymphoma and Leukemia. She gets the ingredients for dinner donated, gets lots of silent auction items/raffle items and hold this in a recreation hall at a church or mobile home park (think no cost/low cost). It is all ages and we look forward to it annually.

Another friend has done a bunco party, $20 donation, donated prizes for gifts,
and raffles.

Movie night at the school. Nominal fee per child. Sell popcorn and juice boxes. Parents drop off and pick up so they get babysitting for the price of the movie, popcorn, juice.

As a parent, my favorite elementary school age fundraiser is the annual color run 5k. The registration fee gets you a t-shirt for the event. Local businesses can sponsor the event for a fee. Teachers are posted along the route to throw the chalk dust on the participants. Kids love it. Raises a ton of money at the beginning of each school year.

Most direct sales companies don't have a specific fundraising setup, but the businesses are run by independent consultants and a lot of us do fundraising as a branch of our business. I do them frequently and donate 30% of the sales to the organization directly. With having to ship everything and having relatively products it usually works out to right around what my cost minus expenses are. A lot of companies aren't going to be able to do that high a percentage because they don't have the same profit levels but it should be relatively easy to find a consultant who would be willing to do a catalog or in-home party with any of the companies.

For a school setting, I would try Scentsy, Posh, Jamberry or maybe LuLaRoe. Pampered Chef or Tupperware might be good too. I feel like a LuLaRoe pop up with multiple vendors or someone who carries a large inventory might be good along with another school function.

I would start by posting on facebook asking if anyone does fundraisers or if they know someone who may be interested in helping the school raise some money. That will most likely connect you with someone, if not I would call the corporate office of the company and ask if they have a leader in the area that may be interested. I've gotten quite a few referrals from people making calls, the office will put you in contact with someone who is doing consistent sales and doesn't have a record of dissatisfied clients.