Middle School Fundraising Ideas
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Middle school fundraising ideas are always a hot topic at local PTA and PTO meetings where parents are faced with the specter of having to raise money for that trip to the state capitol or Washington D.C. This is a hard age because let's face facts: the eighth grade isn't exactly filled with highly responsible people who are likely to grab responsibility by the horns and make projects happen without tremendous parental and teacher help. This age is likely to need help in securing new athletic gear, new school equipment such as science lab materials and perhaps updates to computers that won't come through regular school budgets and of course the obligatory eight grade trip somewhere that will keep chaperones up all night long roaming the hotel hallways. And the way to make some of those things happen is through jjunior high fundraising ideas that first have their genesis in some PTA committee meeting. Here are some things to think about before deciding on any one idea.
In recent years a sixth grader was murdered while selling wrapping paper door to door during a fundraiser campaign. Another same aged student was raped selling newspaper subscriptions for another fundraiser project. Add that to the fact that a sixth or seventh grader just might egg a house that didn't buy and the door to door ideas have some serious drawbacks. To make a door to door campaign work in this day and age, they should be done during the day with the accompaniment of parent or chaperone. The student should not be carrying money on their person and many schools only want their students to sell to family, friends, close neighbors and their parents' co-workers. With all those thoughts in mind, middle school fundraising ideas can get fairly restricted after much consideration.
Consider some very innovative ways that some junior high schools are raising money safely with their middle school fundraising ideas. One school marks off its football field into 1 yard squares and sells raffle tickets for each square. Then on a designated non school day, three cows are led on the field and allowed to roam freely and the squares where the first uhhh, errr, cow droppings are made wins a very nice prize. There you go...it just takes a little imagination and a very understanding athletic director. The other middle school fundraising ideas option that involves animals is a donkey basketball game with athletes against the faculty. But watch out, one could run into animal rights protestors. Maybe you could ask if they would be willing to take the place of the donkeys.
If a school goes ahead and decides to do a door to door selling campaign, one of the hottest crazes among the many middle school fundraising ideas is the scratch off card. This is not a raffle but a fun way to get donors to give to a needed project. The scratch off cards have a hundred dots covering amount of one to three dollars. Once the student tells the prospective donor about the project and asking for a donation, two dots are rubbed off, and depending on the amount of the two revealed amounts, the donor will pay between two and six dollars. In return for the donation, the donor will be given a packet of coupons for discounts on local merchant's services and products. This option among the many middle school fundraising ideas appears to be a win-win for both school and local merchants.
Frozen cookie dough is another one of the really hot middle school fundraising ideas that has proven to be a big profit making item that will probably have to be sold door to door in order to be successful. Even for people who are anathema to sugar will end up by a tub of the heart attack inducing stuff. While many people will buy these tubs, the day the stuff arrives will have to be the day that it is delivered. That means a delivery day better organized than D-Day at Normandy. This particular fund raiser truly will require someone at the top of the organizational pyramid who can command a successful army of persons to sell and deliver. Who is in command of your life? Jesus Christ demands that we obey Him in order to call Him the Lord of our life: "Why call me Lord, Lord and do not the things which I say?" (John 6:46)
For middle schools or junior high schools, some of the best fund raisers are probably the kind that are done at the school and require substantial parental involvement. These kinds of projects are events such as pancake breakfasts or fish fries where not only food is sold but perhaps other things can be offered such as homemade craft items. Some schools have staged carnivals alongside their spaghetti dinners and these kinds of events can allow the students to participate as helpers. Perhaps the brain trust at your school can get together and build a fundraiser around the principal kissing a pig or sitting on the roof of the schoolbuilding for a day and night. Middle school fundraising ideas that are the best are not ones that come out of some pre-fabricated can of old hat and contrived events. They are the ones that are borne out of excitement and ingenuity and get the people laughing and excited about being part of helping a worthy cause to be funded and become successful. And by the way, if the band does get to go to the big capitol city for a parade, why not hand deliver a picture to every person who bought a tub of that cookie goo?
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