AAIM: Results: library club fundraisers Kristen Pierce [email protected] via googlegroups 9:59 AM (13 hours ago) to AAIM Thank you all so much for the responses and ideas! What, if any, library club fundraisers do you all do? 1. Sell Library Lattes in the morning before school! 2. Our PTO makes a killing off of Smencils. One other easy one they made a lot of money on was stick on mustaches. I dont know where they found them, but they were gone in a matter of minutes. We also do fundraiser where kids can bring a dollar to wear hats all day. Since you are the library club, maybe buy a few sets of the plastic bookmarks from the Scholastic resource catalog to mark up and sell? Good luck! 3. Please share your results! We are fund raised out around here and I need a new and unique idea. My personal favorite is a bake sale during school which we call Mustang Café. We used to make a lot of money doing it but of course, with the anti-obesity law in place, we can only do it once a year. Have to share those 9 allowed days with other groups. I have also sold Celebrate Home products (Home Interior Candles were bought out by this company), Tupperware and glow products at football games. 4. We sell popcorn. The PTA has one of those professional poppers, so we use that. The supplies are cheap, money is good. We only sell on Friday afternoons. Everything you need can be purchased at Sam’s club including the machine. My kids softball team sells Sonic cards. Just go to Sonic and ask for them. They are free, then you sell them for $5. It has coupons on it. 5. Our Art club sells Butter Braids and they usually do pretty well. We also have a few groups that sell Little Caesars pizza kits. Another one that has been done in our district is a Schwans sale. Our school has designed and sold school t shirts too. If you could get some teachers/ administrators in you could have students donate money to the person who they would like to see get a pie in the face. Our Juniors did dress down for a dollar days. This was where the staff could pay $1 to wear jeans on Wednesdays. 6. We do a social with games, royalty court, trophied competition, etc. (think a carnival and dance all rolled into one.) Its a lot of work, but usually nets about $3000 and that doesnt include concessions (that goes to our Science or Recycling club depending on whos working it.) 7. Our library club sells Butter Braids in October for delivery the week before Thanksgiving. This is usually a very popular fundraiser. The person to get in touch with is Adam Henderson. His email is ahenderson@asfundraising. We had done this for several years and have never been disappointed. Go to asfundraising to check it out. 8. I would very much encourage you to ask this same question of the state director, Danny Collie. His e-mail is danny.collie@yahoo . He has 1001 ideas and is probably not quite as spazzed over 1st of the year e-mails as many of us. :-) 9. Do a Pre-Prom for grades 4-6 or 7-9. (Ive done both and prefer 4-6) I charge $10/ticket, hire a DJ, put up twinkle lights and balloon arches (pvc pipe and cinder blocks), serve bottled water and cookies, have a local photographer come (I get $1 for every package she sells). I have never made less than $1,000. I do it in the HS cafeteria on a Friday night after football season. The kids love it! 10. We borrowed a snow-cone maker on the last day of school and sold them for .50 each. We have 350 students, and cleared nearly $400 in one day. Really easy! 11. I do a cookie dough fundraiser through Great American Opportunities (formerly QSP). We have always had great success. They used to use Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough which everyone loved. Now they use something else. Cookie dough is not as good but we still make a lot of money. 12. One fundraiser Ive done is have kids who want to wear a hat on the last Friday of the month come by the library and get a stamp on their hand and pay a dollar. That gives them a pass to wear a ball cap for the day. It is easy peasy to do. 13. I DO TEE SHIRT SALES THAT WORK GREAT FOR ME. 14. we do Butter Braids with all-star fundraising 15. Our book club sold mixed bag products. We did well with it. Also we are thinking of doing the reusable grocery bags with the school logo. Mixed bag is the company and they sell totes, bags, purses, phone covers, etc… in different cute colors that look “vera Bradley”ish. Kids take orders and collect the money, you enter each kids order online and they ship it to you in packages by kid. They were really good to deal with and I think we got to keep 40% - can’t remember exactly. I think the website is mixedbagdesigns. 16. Book dedication club. The buyer pays $10 and chooses a new book to be dedicated to someone. Just the cost of a bookplate for you. Some people make bulletin boards with the members of the club. I havent done this, but I know lots of people have. May go over better in an elementary school. School supplies like notebook paper, pens, pencils, highlighters, earbuds, project boards etc. I once had a pencil machine that did pretty good. Raffles: Basket of books, eat lunch in the Library, be Librarian for a day or Principal for a day or any prizes you can get donated. Some kind of voting contest, either favorite book, favorite character, Harry Potter vs. Katniss. Whos your favorite? Choose two stunts to do like ice bucket or eat a bug. Kids pay to vote, maybe $.50 or just set up voting jars where they can just put in change for their choice of stunt or character or whatever. (Voting jars would be easier.) The jar with the most money is the winning stunt. If you did a stunt, you could also raffle off a chance to be the student who pours the ice bucket or whatever. You could do something different every month or couple of months. Kiss a pig vs. wear something silly all day, all kinds of stuff like that. Get some teachers involved just to mix it up, but dont do favorite teacher, people get all miffed. Principal has to sit on the roof vs wear a silly costume, etc. Pit some teachers against each other for something silly. Who should have to dress like a nerd for a day, Ms. Jones or Mr. Smith. If you have good natured teacher friends, they will help egg it on with the students to get more votes. Set up voting jars. One with the most money has to do the silly thing. Maybe send Halloween grams, since Valentines is locked up or Christmas grams. Make it simple. Printed paper around a candy bar or something. Kristen Pierce, Library Media Specialist Nemo Vista High School 5690 Hwy 9 Center Ridge, Ar 72027 501-893-2811 ext 36 501-893-6472 fax
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:30:49 +0000
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