Connecting Schools With Great Fundraising Ideas.

Cheerleading squads often sell school spirit items to students and school sport fands.  Your team members, families and/or booster club can sell t-shirts, spirit sticks, plush mascots and many other great spirit raising items. These are fun spirit accessories that your fans will love to have.

Everything Elementary School Spirit Store has a variety of spirit items including stadium cushions, mini megaphones, pom-poms and much more. Some items are ideal as game giveaways and others can be used as a fundraiser to raise money for your cheerleading squad.

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Box Tops is promoting another bonus contest. You could win 10,000 Bonus Box Tops for your school from Pillsbury® Create ‘n Bake® Cookie Dough. But hurry the last day to enter is Sunday September 31, 2007.

Find out about this and other Box Tops promotions

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There are quite a few options available for a school candy sale fundraiser. Your group can choose to go with one of the leading brand name candy bars such as M&Ms or Hershey. Another great option is World’s Finest Chocolate which has been supplying schools with candy for fundraisers for generations.

There are actually dozens of brands and flavors to choose from for your school candy candy sale fundraiser:

• World’s Finest Chocolate - 12 Sizes and Flavors
• World’s Finest Chocolate Custom - Personalized Wrappers
• Hershey Bar Variety Packs - Reese’s, Hershey’s with Almonds, Twizzlers & More
• Snickers - America’s most popular candy bar
• M&Ms - Peanut and Plain
• Skittles - Flavorful candy treat
• Hebert Chocolate - Variety of delicious bars

So when deciding on a school candy sale fundraiser, check out all of the many varieties of candy and chocolate fundraisers available and see which one is best for your school.

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Jack Links offers several different packs that can be used for fundraising. The beef jerky fundraisers would be good for scouts, football boosters, concession stands and other groups who really like beef jerky.

You can get all “X Sticks” which are the long skinny sticks that come in lots of flavors. These sticks come in the original flavor, chili, bacon cheddar and even pepperoni.

This variety pack (photo here) contains 3 of Jack Link’s most popular snacks, all selling for just $1 each. It includes the original X-Stick Extreme Snack Sticks, Original Beef Steak, and All-American Beef & Cheese combo.

Find out more about Jack Links Beef Jerky Fundraisers

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Earlier this year an Iowa TV Station did a great report on several local school districts. Some schools raised funds to provided for upgrading technology and others to support music and arts programs.

A variety of fundraisers were used and several schools did magazine sales quite successfully:

Summit Middle School in Johnston sold $65,000 dollars worth of magazines this year. After the company took its 60% cut, the school ended up with $26,000 dollars. Meanwhile students at Parkview Middle School in Ankeny sold nearly $95,000 dollars worth of magazines. Its one of the top fundraising schools in the state. After the company took its cut, Parkview received about $43,000 dollars for its work.

When done well magazine fundraisers can be a great way to raise funds. Many people already subscribe to one or more magazines, so often times your school supporters can just renew their subscriptions.

Click here to find out more about magazine fundraisers

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The East End Arts Council created a life-size checkers tournament with a partnership with The Urban League and the Council for Unity. The checkers tournament took place at the 11th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival on Sunday, May 27th 2007. The event was free to the public and for children to participate in. Funds were raised through sponsorship by North Fork, NY area businesses including Bethpage Federal Credit Union, Suffolk County, Knapp-Swezey Foundation, Riverhead Free Library, Astoria Federal Savings, Suffolk County National Bank, Citi Smith Barney and Riverhead Business Improvement. Funds raised went to scholarships for their fine arts programs for students.

The checkers tournament took place from 12:00 p.m. through 3:00 p.m. It was a traditional tournament with the winners playing the other winners. Scores of checkers games were posted for everyone to see who was winning. First, second and third place winners were awarded prizes donated by popular local attractions including The Long Island Ducks, Splish Splash Water Park and Selden Batting and Go-Karting. The event was quite popular and it will be done again next year at the next Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival.

Visit the East End Arts Council website for more information and photos about this event.

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Don’t you just love the word FREE? I do and so will your students and parents when they can get a free box or tub of cookie dough. Each participant just needs to sell 12 items from the catalog to get their choice of cookie dough flavors.

They call this the The Baker’s Dozen Prize Program since you need to sell 12 to get one free. (get it?) With this incentive your participants can surely find 12 people to sell to. Or just six people if each person buys two. It’s a great incentive that will mean that your group will raise more money since more items are sold.

This prize program is included free of charge to groups with at least 10 actual sellers participating in any one of the following brochure fundraisers:

• Gourmet Preportioned Cookie Dough Fundraiser
• Premium Collection Gourmet Cookie Dough
• The Ultimate Collection Gourmet Cookie Dough

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