College Fundraising not for Parents!

By the time your children have left high school and are off to college, you will no doubt have been involved with way too many fundraising events, so it may be a relief to learn that once a student goes to college, any college fundraising is typically undertaken by the students themselves. That's right, you won't need to be involved, or if you are it will most likely be in a reduced roll!

College fundraising is unlikely to be a campus wide event, but more likely to be for a smaller sports team or for sororities or fraternities, or other smaller groups. The good news here is that for smaller groups the fundraising expectations will be smaller too, as the funds needed to run these programs will generally be lower.

So what's a good college fundraising event? Well, if you think about this age group and what they love to eat, it is no surprise that pizza fundraising is a huge success for these groups. This can be arranged in a few different ways. You can buy pizza cards at reduced value to sell at value that still gives the purchaser a great deal, or it can be for frozen pizzas or pizza mixes. Fir students the first option is the best, as students do not always have suitable cooking arrangements.

So, how much can you make? Some of these pizza cards can be bought for $5, sold at $10, and the purchaser is entitled to a number of 2 for 1 deals on their pizzas. This means that everyone wins. The more cards you order the more you can make, up to a whopping 90% if you buy enough cards.

For students this is a good fundraiser, as there are very few people who do not eat pizza, so the cards can easily be sold. The main disadvantage as far as I am concerned, is that you do have to pay for the cards in advance, but usually by credit card. If you have advertized in advance, then you shouldn't have problems selling enough to make your money back before your credit card monthly statement arrives for you to pay!

The same kind of college fundraising events exist for other foods too, like sandwhich shops and diners cards, but I think most college students would go for the pizza deal!