Fundraising Opportunities

Fundraising is an excellent way for your organizaiton to earn necessary funds to support their events, conferences, buy supplies/equipment, or donate to charity.  Some of the benefits include:

• Your organization, working together, can accomplish financial goals.  All members of the organization can contribute.
• Your organization will have funding for events and/or programs
• Your organzation can pass along funding to the next E -Board
• Your organization will not have to rely on your SA allocation or co-sponsorships

Fundraising Ideas

Baja Fresh                                      Flower Sales
Cold Stone Creamery                        Juice Zone
Krispy Kreme                                   Bake Sales
Little Caesar's Pizza Kits                    Penny Wars

Flower Sales

Visit a local florist. Buy flowers and sell them for $1 each.
Some nearby local florists include:

Teleport DC
(202) 783-7263
701 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004

Watergate Florist
(202) 337-2545
2548 Virginia Ave NW
Washington, DC 20037

Palace Florists Inc
(202) 833-1093
1305 19th St NW
Washington, DC 20036

Bake Sale

Penny Wars

• First collect many plastic containers and/or boxes
• Divide your group into teams and create a competition where the group which gathers the most pennies in their jars wins.
• Allow students to drop pennies in your containers.  Any silver change is counted against the group (but raises more money for the cause).

How it Works:

1. Call your local Krispy Kreme to find out what your discount is for fundraising doughnuts, certificates or partnership cards (see 3 Ways to Raise Funds on website for more information).
2. Once you know the selling price and profit, you can determine how many dozens, cards or certificates you need to sell to reach your fundraising goal. We recommend preselling your doughnuts, cards or certificates, starting a couple of weeks before the date you and your local store agree on for pick-up. Your local store can provide you with pre-sell sheets to help keep track of your orders or simply click "Fundraising Forms" above to download "printer friendly" forms.
3. Collect the money as you take the order. Orders are made fresh the day of pickup or delivery. The amount of advanced notice required will vary with location. Check with the store prior to starting your fundraising to determine when your order must be placed. Deliver fresh doughnuts to your customers.

Baja Fresh

How it works: Show up, show your flier, and eat. 15% of the profit will be donated to your organization. (You need to use it through a system of fliers and coupons.) The website, www.bajafresh.com states that you need to contact the manager of the restaurant (using the phone number given) to work out specific details. Set a time-span with the manager to schedule the coupon system.

This form of fundraising works, it just needs massive outreach and making sure people who take your coupons will go to Baja Fresh.

Cold Stone Creamery

Address:
3508 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC
(off of Cleveland Park)
Phone: (202) 237-2605

How it Works:

1. Cake Sale: Agree on a certain time period when people coming in would buy a cake. Mention the name of the student group while buying it. A percentage of sales on those cakes (to be agreed upon) will then go to the group.
2. In store sale: The group will set up in the store for X amount of time. They give out coupons and receive X amount of sales for this time period.
3. Call the given number to set this up. The store is not closed for this process.

Juice Zone

Address:

How it works:

Juice Zone hosts what they call Fresh Funds Events -Monday through Thursday from either 12-2pm or 5-7pm. Juice Zone will donate
15% of all proceeds to the organization who hosts the event. To set-up a Fresh Funds Event email freshandhealthy@juicezonedc.com!

Little Caeser's

Contact:
Phone:  1-888-452-5487 or 1-866-452-3684
Website: http://www.pizzakit.com/lcpk_register.asp (to register your organization)
              http://www.pizzakit.com/lcpk_hiw.asp (for more information)

How it works:

1) They will send your sales materials to you free of charge 3-4 weeks before your sale start date. This will include everything you need to run an easy and profitable fundraiser-with order forms, tally sheets, announcement letters, color posters and much more! To get the most out of your Pizza Kit or Cookie Dough Sale, we recommend a 3-4 week sale from the time you begin selling until the day your Pizza Kits are delivered.

2) As you sell the kits, your customers place their orders and pay for their kits with checks payable to your organization. Your organization keeps the profit up-front and pays in full for the Pizza Kit or Cookie Dough order at the time of delivery with an organization check, cashier’s check or money order made payable to Little Caesars Pizza Kit Fundraising Program. (Their drivers cannot accept cash, personal or starter checks.) We will calculate your total amount due when you place your order.

3) Your Pizza Kits and Cookie Dough will be delivered directly to your organization in a refrigerated Little Caesars truck from one of our 15 distributions centers located throughout the continental U.S. To ensure a quick and smooth delivery, be sure to plan to have your delivery in an accessible area. Preferably on a loading dock or through double doors large enough to accommodate pallets 6’ tall x 4.5’ wide. To ensure your safety, please try to avoid stairs whenever possible.

4) Schedule delivery arrival for at least one hour before your customer pick-up begins. This will allow ample time to unload, count and sort your orders. To expedite the delivery process, have volunteers on hand to help unload your items. (An ideal number of volunteers is: One Volunteer Per 100 Kits being delivered). Your Pizza Kit or Cookie Dough distribution should begin only after your kits/tubs have been counted and verified with the driver and your delivery paperwork has been signed.

5) Once your customers have picked up their items, they can find their Pizza Kit Baking Instructions on the crust packaging inside the box. The easy-to-follow Cookie Dough Baking Instructions are printed on the tub. Encourage your customers to build their own “family favorite” Pizza Kit or Cookie recipe.