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Sapphire - posted on 09/13/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )

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If you have school-aged kids, you have been subjected to the evils of selling: magazines, chocolate, wrapping paper, candles, cookie dough, Entertainment Books, booster club cards, and so on and so on. The fundraising never ends, and also includes car washes, yard sales, Box Tops, etc.



So, this year I am a co-sponsor for our National Junior Honor Society (8th grade) and the club relies heavily on fundraisers. I am the one in charge of the fundraiser portion. So instead of constant begging people to BUY something, I thought of a different twist. Ask local business owners to donate gift cards in various denominations and host a school-wide event I am calling "The Great Gift Card Extravaganza" Basically, I have this vision in my head that the 8th graders can accumulate all of these gift cards, and we can host the event on a Friday evening. Set up the entire gymnasium with the gift cards and people can purchase raffle tickets. Place a raffle ticket into a box for the gift card you want to try to win. So, let's say you want to try to win the $25 Target gift card, put your gift card in that box. I was also thinking of some bigger items that might be donated, like writing to Bed & Breakfast owners and seeing if they can donate a free night. That promotes tourism in our state. I was also thinking of asking each grade level team to donate a grade level gift card. The purpose is to raise funds for the NJHS plus get parents to the school. $1 a raffle ticket plus each middle school students gets one free ticket. That could be a surefire way to get parents to come! So in a sense it IS asking the parents to make a purchase. But it is not bombarding the parents with catalogue after catalouge. Any feedback would be great!

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Sapphire - posted on 09/13/2009

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Thanks for the positive feedback! I have to pitch the idea to my co-sponsor tomorrow. I thought up this idea while walking the dog last night.

Diana - posted on 09/13/2009

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Sounds wonderful! We did a similar auction for a writing club at my university. We wanted to raise money to help rebuild some local libraries after Hurricane Katrina, so we asked lots of authors to donate a signed copy or two fo their latest book-and a very large number of them did. And every year we have a silent auction for our English Graduate Organization in which members all personally donate something (it varies from homemade jewlery to cakes and once there was even an old car involved) and then we spend an evening at a member's home, drinking wine and outbidding one another. I think those ways of earning money are far more interesting and fun than selling chocolate or wrapping paper, and to be honest I'd be far more likely to participate in such a fundraiser.

Lindsay - posted on 09/13/2009

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I think that is a great idea! Plus, if you can get all of those donations, it's all profit! I could so go for something like that instead of the non-sense stuff from the catalogs! Good luck and I hope you raise whatever you need plus some! =)

Jocelyn - posted on 09/13/2009

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sounds like a good idea to me! similar to a silent auction, but a bit more age appropriate (getting the kids themselves involved with their own tickets)

good luck!

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