Cookie dough fundraising is an easy and fun idea that can yield you some decent profits, and best of all, your supporters and your fundraising team will both love the product you’ve chosen. The best way to get started with cookie dough school fundraising is to sit down with the other adults and have an organizational meeting.

The more people you can get to help with this, the better, but clear delegation is important. There are two types of people who show up to fundraising meetings: those who really don’t want to be there and don’t want to volunteer for anything, and those who think they know best about everything having to do with fundraising, and want to control everything.

As the person in charge, it’s up to you to put the enthusiastic people in clear roles with clear boundaries, so that nobody steps on anybody’s toes and every requirement is taken care of. Once you have the adults sorting out, cookie dough school fundraising begins to take on a life of its own.

The enthusiasm of children is remarkable, and this will come across to your supporters, who love cookie dough anyway, but will especially love buying it to help the kids out. For younger children, make sure they have someone to accompany them when they go out fundraising, as they will be collecting and walking around with money as they go.

You can use the cards as prizes for students who bring in the most fundraising results.  On the other hand, you could sell the cards to raise extra funds (based on a $20 suggested retail price).

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

• Place-n-Bake Cookie Dough
• Scoop-n-Bake Cookie Dough
• Gourmet Preportioned Cookie Dough
• Premium Collection Gourmet Cookie Dough
• Elite Retreats

Today’s busy lifestyles require families to have convenience foods on hand. Pizza is one of those foods that are great for after school snacks or a quick meal.

So when your organization conducts a frozen pizza fundraiser you’re providing something that people are already buying and will want more of.

Tips for Planning a Frozen Pizza Fundraiser:

1. Review the companies the offer frozen pizza fundraisers and choose one that offers the best product, profit potential and service.
2. Set a goal for your group’s overall sales and then break it down by participant.
3. Offer prizes as incentives for sellers. A stepped scale works well and rewards those who sell the minimum, as well as higher targets. You can even order extra frozen pizzas as prizes.
4. Set dates for the start and end of your fundraiser. A mid campaign check-in where coordinators call participants to see how their sales are going is a good idea.
5. Arrange for storage of the frozen products when they arrive. Make sure your sellers know the date, time and location of the pickup.
6. Celebrate! Have a recognition meeting or party to acknowledge those who sold the most. Announce the total amount raised and describe what the funds will do to support the activities of your organization.

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Many school groups over the years have used the “world famous” chocolate bars from the World’s Finest Chocolate brand to raise funds. These chocolate bars have been a staple for many school PTA groups, marching bands and other school groups.

There are so many different varieties available – milk chocolate, chocolate with almonds, chocolate crispy, and so much more. Each of these chocolate bars are made with the finest ingredients.

Your group can raise funds with the famous $1 bars, the chocolate bars that have been used by many groups to raise money. There are also $2 King Size bars in many of the same flavors. Some of these bar wrappers can even be personalized for your group.  It could have your school’s name and a photo of your school, mascot or just a logo.   It’s up to you.  (For example if you are having a band fundraiser, use the band logo!)

No matter which one you choose you will sure to be creating a winning fundraiser when you choose the bar that has been made famous simply because of its great taste and its great fundraising potential.

Find out more about World’s Finest Chocolate online or give them a call (toll free) at 1-866-432-7838.

While each parent and school employee needs to be vigilant in making sure these products are removed from the general student population, we cannot forget that peanut butter cookie dough sold in fundraisers would also fall into this recall category.

I would advise any group who has in the recent past or who is currently selling cookie dough to contact the company to verify the status of their product.  (A list can be found here.) I can confirm, however, that the peanut butter cookie dough sold through our partner FastTrack Fundraising , including the Chippery brand, is safe for consumption and not under a recall.

The risks of not checking this out are real. So far, almost 500 people have become ill and six have actually died across the entire United States.

For more information, please click here to visit the Food and Drug Administration’s Peanut Butter Recall page.

Photo By: Plutor

So, we are very happy to share some great news with you. Our friends over at FastTrack Fundraising have significantly increased the percentage of money your school gets to keep from their chocolate fundraisers. In the past, schools selling their brands of chocolate would receive 40% of the gross receipts, while 60% went back to FastTrack Fundraising. I do understand that high-quality chocolate is expensive, so I believe that justifies this kind of a percentage. However, they have now bumped the split across the board to 50-50.  In case of the $2 Chocolatiers Variety Pack , it’s now 60-40, in favor of the school! This is amazing! Chocolate fundraisers have always been a reliable and profitable income stream. This is even more true now.

In addition, FastTrack Fundraising has re-vamped their chocolate product line. While the ever-popular “World’s Finest Chocolate” is still available, they have also added the popular Dollar Bar, as well as the “Chocolatiers” selection from Van Wyk.  In addition, if any of you have ever tried the tremendous Hebert chocolate bars, take note, there has been a name change. Hebert chocolate is now called Lamontagne. Have no fear, it’s still the same company and the same high-quality chocolate; it’s just different packaging.

If you are still searching for a great way to raise money for your school this coming spring, I highly recommend you check out the chocolate sales program over at FastTrack Fundraising.

The service, the selection, the quality, and most of all- the percentage of the profits you get to keep- are all great reasons to choose an FastTrack Fundraising chocolate sale for your school! Enjoy!

If you have spent any time around a school, you have been exposed to many different kinds of product sale fundraisers. In my time running a summer camp and an elementary school, I have seen my fair share of sales: candles, soup mixes, popcorn, candy, you name it.

Sometimes these products are terrific, and I feel satisfied that parents are getting a high-quality product in return for their financial support. Other times, unfortunately, I do not feel this way.

However, with Chippery Cookie Dough, I truly believe we have an all-around great product, and I also believe that you will agree.

Recently, I received a sample of Chippery Cookies and their sales catalog. Right off the bat, I was impressed with the handsome literature that accompanied the product. I was able to clearly see what each style of cookie looked like in tempting, professional photographs. I was also incredibly impressed with the wide variety of cookies:

• Snickerdoodles
• Chocolate Chip
• Chocolate Chunk
• Oatmeal Raisin
• Sugar
• Peanut Butter
• M&M cookies
• Chocolate Mint Chip
• Double Chocolate Brownie
• White Chunk Macadamia Nut

There was even nutritional information about the cookies!

The order form was straight forward and easy to understand. I learned that flavors were available in either tub form or in pre-cut slices. Both the tubs and the slices could be thawed and re-frozen for your convenience.

But, we don’t eat the brochure, do we? The real test is how it tastes with a big glass of cold milk.

As you can see from the photos that accompany this article, I have four children. Noah is 9, Liam is 6, Erin is 5, and Claire is 3. If there is a finer collection of cookie testers anywhere in North America, I’d like to know about them. My kids love the cookie. So, when I told them that we were charged with baking up some of these samples, they were thrilled.

Although this may be politically incorrect to write, and the health department may come to shut down my kitchen, the first thing we always do before baking any cookie is to taste the raw dough. This gives us an insight into the very molecular structure of the cookie in its purest form. (It also tastes really, really good!).

Satisfied with the sweet raw dough, we each selected the flavor we thought we’d like the most.

• Noah chose the Snickerdoodles
• Liam chose the Chocolate Chunk
• Erin chose the Double Chocolate Brownie
• Claire chose the M&M cookies
• Jenny (my wife) chose the Oatmeal Raisin
• And I chose the Peanut Butter

Then, we all took six of each of the above flavors and placed them on two cookie sheets and slid them into the oven. (With four little kids, the pre-sliced frozen cookies were neat and easy to use!).

After 10 minutes baking, Jenny pulled the cookies out, and we let them cool off a little bit. We used this time to pour six glasses of ice cold milk.

Once they were cool enough to put in our mouths but still hot enough to be really gooey, I dealt the cookies out like a game of kiddie Texas Hold ‘Em. We each got one of every flavor. As we suspiciously sized each other up and down, I explained the rules of this taste test and got out my whistle. We were going to be disciplined! I had a plan!

But then, all you-know-what broke out.

Liam stole Erin’s Double Chocolate Brownie. While she was crying, Claire reached over and stole Noah’s M& M cookie. As he protested, Jenny snuck my Snickerdoodle, and Erin took Claire’s Chocolate Chunk. I was blowing the whistle and pointing fingers like crazy, but nobody was listening to me. It was clearly cookie chaos! Finally, I had had enough and being the biggest guy in the room, I took everyone’s peanut butter cookies. No one could stop me. I was Godzilla in Cookie-town. Children were crying, dogs were barking, grandmas were fainting. It was all rather something.

But in the end, an amazing thing happened. They started eating. They started dunking cookies in milk. They started smiling. Pretty soon all the cookies we baked had disappeared, and all was well with the world.

All I saw crowded around our kitchen island were happy little faces and four cute milk mustaches, complete with crumbs.

There are obviously many cookie dough suppliers out there, and I’m sure most of them are terrific. However, from my experience with Chippery Cookies, I can tell you that the quality of the items were very high, the literature supporting the product was informative and attractive, and the end result of happy kids closed the deal for me.

If you are interested in learning more about Chippery Cookies, I recommend that you check out their cookie dough fundraiser where you can see all the options available.

Founded in 1917, Hebert is one of the oldest brands in fundraising today. I recently received a small sampler box of Hebert Chocolate. While I love chocolate myself, my family is wildly enthusiastic about anything at all deriving from the sweetest bean on Earth: the coco bean.

So, I gathered the kids around me when I slit open the plain white box it arrived in. I told my two boys (9 and 6) and two girls (5 and 3) that something very special was inside, so they were huddled over the package in great anticipation.

Of course, I added to the drama by pretending to have great trouble opening this treasure chest. When I finally wrestled it open, they were practically salivating. Slowly, I reached my hand inside, fished around fervently for a few seconds, and with great force and thrust, yanked my hand back out, this time clutching a golden-wrapped bar of … of… just about the greatest thing known to man: chocolate.

Instantly, a chorus of “I WANT IT! I WANT IT!” rang out through my house. I threw my head back and let out a huge belly laugh, “There’s chocolate enough for EVERYONE!” The children hugged me, cried, and told me I was the best dad in the whole wide word. And it’s true. I am.

Ok, so maybe that’s not exactly how it all happened, but it is true that my four kids were very excited to get a box of chocolate bars in the mail.

As a consumer, I was very impressed by the handsome wrappers of the various brands. The assortment was also grand: Crispy Rice, Dark Chocolate, Caramel, Almonds, and Cashews. Being the impartial, scientist-type, I knew it would be prudent to taste each sample of chocolate before reviewing it in this blog. I approached this task with great solemnity, almost as if at a vineyard in the south of France. Bib around my neck, spittoon at the ready, I nibbled a taste of the crispy rice. At first, I noticed that it had legs like a thoroughbred, strong and forward, with a tannic backbone. I picked up notes of leather that accentuated a rather presumptuous if not heady structure though voluptuous berry notes of cream and citrus lifted my spirits. An elegant and gentle finish just lingered on and on.

Oh, wait- wrong review. That was for my wine blog. Sorry. Crispy rice. Guess what, it was really good! It tasted just like a good old American bar of chocolate should.

Looking at the suggested retail price of $1 or $2 (depending on the variety), I think it’s a terrific bargain. The company claims that you’ll make a 45% profit from your efforts. With the proper planning and execution, your school should stand to profit nicely off of Hebert Chocolate. Since they’ve been around over 90 years, you know they deliver on their promises.

If you would like to learn more about Hebert Chocolate, you can click here for a free info kit a or call 1-866-432-7838. I’m sure they will be glad to help.

There are many ways to boost the sales of your cookie dough fundraising program. Here are just a few of them:

1. Let your sellers and supporters know ahead of time about the sale. Make sure they know how much their support is appreciated.
2. Create specific goals for the fundraiser. How much money needs to be raised? How many tubs does this equal? How many tubs per person will need to be sold?
3. Set a reasonable time limit for getting all the orders in from participants.
4. Offer prizes for participants who sell the mimimum amount.
5. Create a group challenge or prize program to motivate your sellers.
6. Take the catalogs to work.
7. If your organization is short the minimum order, the organization can fund the difference and sell them later.
8. Use extra cookie dough supply or buy extra to make cookies. Sell cookies at a bake sale, sports game, at school, or anywhere there are people! If your baking oven is near your selling table it’s even better — people can’t resist when they smell the warm aroma of cookies baking.

The cookie dough fundraising program provides full color catalogs to sell from. The group uses catalogs to take orders of the cookie dough, which comes in several varieties.