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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re fund raising ideas:

I think fund raisers like selling Christmas trees or mulch can be great because you can sell things to the broader community that they would be buying anyway.

Janney has a winter fair/fest every year that is both a good community event and a fundraiser.  Venders buy tables to sell holiday goods, and they range from kids selling used toys to art and jewelry that are at many craft fairs.  There is a community scavenger hunt in the week leading up to it for kids, with participants from the library and fire department to hardware store and local restaurants.[/quote]

These kinds of fundraisers are great community-builders but lousy fundraisers. They just don't raise much money. I was chairman of our school's tree sale and the net proceeds to the school came out to far less than minimum wage for the number of volunteer hours that went into it.  Everyone involved had fun and it was good to reach out to the broader community, but if you're a school that really needs the money and has limited volunteer resources I wouldn't start out with a tree sale or a seasonal fair.[/quote]

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