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by EL1 2 on January 3rd, 2007

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What are some feasible fundraising ideas for a high school yearbook. I am the business editor and need to raise $7k more. We're a small school.

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  • by Anonymous on June 26th, 2009

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    It's always good to sell ads to local businesses and to sell graduate ads that parents can buy to tell their graduating child how proud they are of them, etc. Assuming that you are already doing that, we suggest yearbook groups sell custom scrapbook kits.

    With your group we will create a basic package, with the option of buying a custom book to put your pages in. Then we give you order forms where people can order custom items that are specific to them.

    Students, parents, grand parents, etc all go crazy for these. Use your layout skills to create some sample pages and some groups have even put together complete pages for students for extra money.

    Even a small school can make thousands of dollars because you can sell these custom kits to students from elementary up through high school. Key2Sports can help you get started.

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  • by Sketchy Mess Jeoffory on January 3rd, 2007

    Sketchy Mess Jeoffory

    Car washes are usually a decent fundraiser for school functions. The cost is extremely low so most of the money earned can go directly to profits.

    Find a local business with a medium sized parking lot that is situated on a busy road. Make sure they have a connection for water hoses and then ask the business owner or manager if they would be willing to allow you to use a portion of their lot to have a fundraising car wash. You might even offer them a free small advertising block in your yearbook. Make sure you pick somewhere that has an area where you could wash the cars while not blocking the normal traffic of the business.

    You can borrow hoses and connect them together to reach to your area. Purchase a few inexpensive jumbo size bottles of car soap from walmart and about 10 cheap jumbo sponges. I'm sure your parents have some spare buckets you could use to mix up batches of the soap.

    Now you need to pick a relatively warm day, preferably a Saturday (or weekday if you have one off school some time.) Get your yearbook staff to volunteer some time to help... maybe 10 people or so- enough to let 3-4 people wash a car at a time. That way you can finish each car relatively quickly, and another car can pull up while the previous car is being rinsed off. Each rotation a few people can rest, so you don't get tired out. Set up about 930am and start washing around 10am. Keep going until the cars stop coming... be sure to stay long enough to catch that 5 oclock traffic, but by sundown you will probably want to wrap it up.

    Make up some signs on poster board and have people stand beside the road leading up to the entrance... this gives people time to read the sign and slow down and pull in. If they drive past before they realize what's going on you have lost them. Also, please be sure to stand at a safe distance from the road and don't distract the drivers TOO much.

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