Re: Another question

• From: zuhahlter
• Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:51:42 -0800
• Message-ID: <000TV6T0E.001PFDUH4.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

I'm going to venture to answer this question
since I helped high school debate teams with this issue
a while back.

Some successful fund-raising
projects:

1. Bake sales - if possible, do these during lunch
in the cafeteria or off to the side - have kids
bring in items like brownies, cookies, cupcakes, etc.,
and sell everything for fifty cents. Kids usually
snap them up. A good additional thing that makes a lot
of cash is to bring 12 packs of soda, and sell them
for 50 cents each (cheaper than most high school
vending machines). Bring brands not available in the
school - Coke products if the school has Pepsi machines,
etc. - kids who are devotees will snap these up. On a
good day, my debate team made $300 from one bake
sale.

2. Candy sales - most areas have companies that sell
candy to school organizations at a discount price. Give
each kid a bag of candy to sell during pass periods
for two weeks. Target freshmen - they tend to buy the
most.

3. Rummage sale - as a sideline to a carwash, set up
tables and have the kids and parents bring garage sale
items that they would be willing to donate to the team
and basically have a rummage sale alongside the
carwash. You can make good money here, too.

4.
Events for little kids - Easter egg hunts, stuff like
that - we used to do a breakfast with the Easter
Bunny, where we had one team member dress up like the
Easter Bunny in this huge homemade costume, charge
parents to bring their kids to eat breakfast with the
bunny, get a picture taken, and do a little easter egg
hunt. Once you get established in the community - tons
of people come out.

Of course, all of these
are contingent on the school's permission, and on the
team member's willingness to take time out of their
lunches to sell at bake sales, to sell the candy, or to
help out on weekends for rummage sales, as well as for
the parents to buy or make the baked goods, sodas,
and contribute the garage sale items. If you surmount
these obstacles, you can make a lot of
money.

-Ramey Ko