How to Do Some Easy Fundraising for Your Group, Club or Organization

Whether you are looking for ideas to raise money for a school PTA, a church youth group, or some other good cause, here are some tried and true easy fundraising activities for your group. These fundraising ideas are quick and easy. They are also inexpensive to get started.

Your group can do these quick and easy fundraisers and multiply their investment. These ideas will put cash in your group's bank account quickly.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• something to sell
• folding table
• signage for your group
• box to keep money in
• change

1. Buy or make something that you can resell. One PTA group bought candy bars at a wholesale club, such as Sam's or Costco, for fifty cents each and sold them for a dollar each. A church youth group made lemonade and sold it for a dollar a glass. A young woman made beaded bracelets to raise money for autism research.

2. Find a venue for selling your product. The PTA mentioned above sold their candy bars at school ball games and community events. The youth group sold their lemonade after church on Sundays and Wednesday nights. The young woman sold bracelets at hospital gift shops.

3. Set up a table at your venue on the day of the sale. Have a cash box on hand to hold your money. Make signs advertising your group and your sale. Make your table attractive and try to set up someplace where there will be a lot of foot traffic if you have a choice. Next to the door where everyone goes in and out of the building is ideal.

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   Talk to people. Do not just sit in a chair and wait for someone to come up to your table to buy something. Stand up and talk to people passing by. Ask them if they would like to buy whatever it is you are selling. Promote your group. Remind people that the money goes to a good cause. Be prepared to tell people what your group will spend the money for. People are willing to part with a dollar or two when they know that the money is going for a cause that they support.

Tips & Warnings

• If you can get the product, or the ingredients for your product, donated then everything you make is profit. In the case of the youth group above, the parents each pitched in with some of the ingredients to make frozen lemonades. The youth group was able to keep all of the profits from the sales.

• Plan on setting up these sales more than once. The youth group sold lemonade all summer. The PTA candy sales are ongoing whenever there is an appropriate venue. The autism bracelets have been selling for years and have raised thousands of dollars for autism research.

• Look for ways you can add on to your sales. The youth group had great success with lemonade, but noticed that people were also asking if they had anything to eat. They bought cookies and sold them individually to add onto their sales.

• Put someone trustworthy in charge of the cash!