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| Your Name: Judy Crews Your Email Address: jcerws@bobcat.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: Our school district really frowns on fund raisers and definitely does not like for groups sell from a brouchure. We make our money from working concessions at the football games and doing singing valentines. The valentines make good money and the administration likes them due to the compliments from the community. It is definitely a great way to make money, gets some good PR, and make people happy. |
| Your Name: emory Your Email Address: bemory@hhs.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: The only fund raiser that I am allowed to have is our Christmas Dinner/Concert. I charge $7.50 for adults and $5.00 for students. We ususally serve a little over 300. After I pay the cafeteria, I make around $2000.00. |
| Your Name: Ferroll Taylor Your Email Address: ferrollsongbird@alltel.net Type your answer here: My most profitable fund raiser is through Current, Inc. I run it through mid-September through the first week or so of October. |
| Your Name: Dawnelle Fincher Your Email Address: dfincher@fayar.net Type your answer here: Madrigal Feast....three evenings and one matinee, once a year. |
| Your Name: Carol from Clinton Your Email Address: grayc@clinton.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: We are not permitted to DO 'fund-raisers', so our parent organization sponsors events/efforts: 1-Valentine Flower sale (silks, by order); 2-School Talent Show; 3-Bake Sale @ WalMart in the spring. We also do a drawing for a cash prize at one concert per year, with door prizes donated by area businesses and $250 - $300 as the 'grand prize.' |
| Your Name: Elaine Harris Your Email Address: elaineh_72120@yahoo.com Type your answer here: Frozen cookie dough. I already have people asking us when we are going to sell this fall. |
| Your Name: Carol Hevain Your Email Address: carol.heavin@lrsd.org Type your answer here: Singing Telegrams for Valentines Day. We make our own cards and purchase candy and bears from the Dollar stores to sell along with the telegrams. Prices range from $2 - $5. |
| Your Name: tina n Your Email Address: tinan@searcyschools.org Type your answer here: the easiest fundraiser is our choir discount card that we do with varsity gold and john morgan. DW at Cabot arranges his own discount with businesses in Cabot. I have worked with Mitch Wright with Great America,etc. for 12 years now and he gives us a great % as well as makes sure that we get the Christmas wrapping paper orders each year. Two of the best fund-raisers we did for NYC was selling "stock" in our trip. The stockholders got preferential seating and a reception after our spring concert and their names were in our programs. We sent them official thank you notes and individual students also sent them thank you notes. We also sold coca-cola products and that worked well for our trip- of course the students and parents were very motivated also to sell them. CJ at Harding I think does a choir family garage sale every year. We did that for our NYC trip also at the Carmichael Community Center here in town and each family had a booth and sold their own items and then kept that money for their trip. |
| Your Name: Stephanie Rowe Your Email Address: ssexton@mail.bic.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: Our most profitable fundraiser is a beauty pageant. We sponsor the Miss BIC pageant that sends the winners to the Miss NEA pageant. Last year we made $1,500 and the less you can spend on the decorations and all, the more of that you get to keep! |
| Your Name: Annette Rushing Your Email Address: annette.rushing@sbcglobal.net Type your answer here: I have one fund raiser per year with Eagle Fund Raising in Fort Smith. Usually, WHJRH raises between 8 and 10 thousand dollars. I have used this organization for 17 years. |
| Your Name: Becca Your Email Address: BeccaSanders@aol.com Type your answer here: I do a Madrigal Dinner and sell full tables at a higher price than the 8 seats would cost individually; those seats are the best seats. Other than that, I don't do anything other than just asking for sponsors b/c it has not worked. |
| Your Name: Sharon Ward Cooper Your Email Address: swardcooper@vv.crsc.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: I like to sell the School Partners coupon books. It may not always be the most profitable fundraiser, but there are so many useful coupons that anyone can get there $10 back easily and save money using the coupons. |
| Your Name: Bennie Carol Wade Your Email Address: bcwade2@aol.com Type your answer here: Before Mike Huckabee, Kathryn Beich candy bars, Golden Crumbles, and Katydids in the fall each year. Also - school events - Talent Show, Halloween Carnival annually. |
| Your Name: La Juana Warner Your Email Address: warnerl@mail.jps.k12.ar.us Type your answer here: We have one choir fundraiser per year selling Boston Butts and Ribs. This marks the 4th year for us to sell BBQ and it is profitable and a superior product. |
| Your Name: Angela Weaver Your Email Address: weaverlady99@yahoo.com Type your answer here: Program advertisements has been the most profitable for us, because it doesn't cost as much to do. Every other spring. |
| Your Name: Katy White Your Email Address: kwhite@cacmustangs.org Type your answer here: An annual silent auction and spaghetti supper held simultaneously in our school cafeteria, on a night before a big home ballgame. Parents and students do it all! (get food prepared and served, procure auction donations, etc.) |