What type of fundraiser are you doing?
We have assembled some of the best tips, tricks, and ideas from the best fundraising minds to help you.
Browse the categories on the left to find articles that will help you raise the most
money while having the most fun you can have doing a fundraiser.
Fund Raiser Ideas
NOT SURE OR NEED INFO FAST? We have Sponsor organizations standing by to assist you with finding the fundraiser
that is right for you. Click here and fill in our free information form. Y
Fundraising information and ideas will be sent to you from our Sponsors to help you decide what kind of fundraiser
will work best for your organization. Click here for free fundraising information.
50% profit or more! Candle Fundraising with Celebrating Home!
Choose your own selling prices! Request a free packet. Everyone
loves our candles! High profit! Easy Program! Great variety!
Minimal shipping time. Keep your profits upfront! Learn more!
CharityMania
CharityMania offers unique, raffle fundraisers based on the excitement of your favorite sports. Our fundraisers are fun, easy-to-manage and very profitable! Make 70?75% profit with every ticket sold. It?s risk free and that simple. Contact us today!
Free Skratchers Sample Kit or call toll free at 1-888-800-9506 Visit www.Skratchers.com
Tips to help you succeed
Strategies Part 03: Additional Revenue at a Car Wash FundraiserCar wash fundraisers are great money-makers indeed. Well why not enhance this years car wash fundraiser with a couple of extra revenue makers? After all you have a captured audience and you are a business minded individual right? You do care about your kids and you want them to succeed and do well at all their activities, you also know that the more money the fund raiser events make the less money dear old dad and mom have to kick into the program. Let’s face it kids are getting to be quite expensive and anytime you can off set some of these costs it makes sense right? Here are some additional revenue enhancement ideas for your annual Car Wash Fundraiser.
HOT DOGS
If you choose to sell hot dogs you will definitely have a captured audience. If you intend to feed your group you should charge them at least fifty cents each to cover costs otherwise they will eat up one hundred percent of your profits. People get hungry washing cars and burn up a lot of calories. If you offer free hot dogs to your washers and let’s say there are twenty of them, they will devour sixty hot dogs, three a piece. This may sound funny but not when you’re trying to make cash for your group. If you charge for them you will need an average of 1.5 hot dogs per washer and you will cover your costs on them. Guestimate how many hot dogs you will sell and add 1.5 times the number of washers to this number. This will give you an approximation of supplies needed. Remember to buy slightly more buns than hot dogs, half a pack or so. Some people will want a hot dog and no bun and some like the bun with no hot dog. Plus you will drop a few or squish a few buns and then no one will want to eat them. Be careful when selling hot dogs. When it gets busy at your car wash you want people to stay in the cars otherwise they will disappear to the hot dog area while their car blocks your production.
A hot dog stand should also have a parent if this is a kid’s group to manage the hot dogs and the money. Kids burn hot dogs, undercook them or give them away to friends. They will also forget to turn off the propane on the BBQ. This will really screw up sales if you run out of propane. No one will want a cold or uncooked hot dog.
BAKE SALE
This is the hardest type of extra activity to have at a car wash fundraiser. Try to find someone in your group who has run a successful bake sale before – one which actually made money and sold out. If they’ve been through this a couple of times you should use their experience and put them in charge. Have them run the bake sale event separately with different volunteers, monies, etc. Give them a really good location and let them take trays of goodies to people in line or in the drying area. Don’t allow sales in the wash zone. If you allow people to get out of their cars to purchase baked goods have them leave their keys in the car. You’ll need an extra supervisor moving cars, watching for hoses and people moving from the wash area to the drying area. This will allow customers to browse the bake sale layout. It’s ok to have a bake sale and hot dog stand. They work well because someone who wants a hot dog and soda will want a brownie. The bake sale volunteers should be given the utmost courtesy so tensions stay low and everybody works as a team.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
If your fundraiser is at a school or church with a cafeteria, you may want to consider a panca...
Click here to read the whole article.
|
