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One of the most important factors to consider when you are deciding which school fundraiser to select is the percentage your school will receive from the overall take. After all, why should your students and their parents do all the hard work, when most of the profit goes back to the company? That makes no sense.

So, we are very happy to share some great news with you. Our friends over at eFundraising 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 eFundraising. 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, eFundraising 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 eFundraising.

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 eFundraising chocolate sale for your school! Enjoy!

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Cookie dough fundraisers with frozen cookie dough can be a good choice for a school, youth or other group fundraiser. These fundraisers Cookie dough fundraising programs involve selling large tubs or boxes of cookie dough, which can be refrigerated or frozen for later use. The organization takes advance orders and/or prebuys a certain number of cases of the cookie dough and then sells it.

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.

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There are many brands of chocolate bars that offer fundraisers for schools and other groups. You can find Hershey’s, M&M’s and Snickers just to name a few.

However, most of the time you can only fundraise with their basic bar. There are a dozen different varieties of M&M’s but you can only fundraise with plain or peanut. Not so with Hebert Chocolate! This chocolate bar provider has quite a few interesting flavors included in their fundraising variety packs.

This variety pack includes 52 bars, with 5 different flavors. You’ll get Caramel Bars, Almond Bars, Crisp Rice Bars, Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Bars, and Double Chocolate Bars. Your supporters will love the assortment featured in this pack especially since it includes a dark chocolate bar!

Each bar is sold to your supporters for $1 each and your group makes 40-45% profit.  There are two other variety packs available with different assortments and price points.

Find out more about Hebert Chocolate

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Many school groups over the years have used the “world’s greatest” chocolate bars from the World’s Finest Chocolate company 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. There are bars of several sizes too. Your group sells these bars to supporters for $1, $2 and $5.

The greatest bars to raise funds with are the $2 King Size bars since your group earns more profit on each bar and you don’t have to sell as many bars to make the same profit. World’s Finest Chocolate also makes great $5 bars and boxed chocolates which are also great.

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

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Here’s a great idea for an extra fundraiser to get in before the winter holiday break. Red, Green and White lollipops in kid’s favorite holiday shapes.

These one-of-a-kind seasonal lollipops come in a variety of festive shapes including snowmen, Santa and even Christmas trees. They are available in the following flavors: Bubble Gum, Candy Cane, Cherry Cheesecake, Cherry Limeade, Cherry Snow, Green Apple, Strawberry Shake, Watermelon Slice, and Wild Cherry.

This is fast fundraiser item could be sold at a school play, winter festival, open house night, or just about anywhere.

• 9 flavors available
• Retail price per pop = $0.50
• 576 pops per case (8 inner cases of 72 pops)
• Minimum order = 1 case
• Your group earns 50% Profit

There’s lots of other shapes and flavors of gourmet pops available. You can view all the available pops and even order online here If you have any questions or want to order over the phone just call 1-866-249-0089 for more info.

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