<p>Any ideas?</p>
<p>I was thinking of like casino night, with fake money and have raffles and make it cost like 25 dollars to get in. Idk if it would work.</p>
<p>If you can, name suggestions that worked for you, and state how much money it made.</p>
<p>i did a very small collection by selling ribbons at my school...at $1 (i easily could have charged $2-i was naive!)...got $250+</p>
<p>Um, ideas that have worked at my school (I personally haven't done them, but my friends did)</p>
<p>-Hold a special day for your school and charge a lot...ex, pajama day at my ultra-strict private school for $5 before the event and $10 on the event</p>
<p>-Special Semi-Formal-charge a lot of money for tickets (think $75-80 for a pair), and get businesses to donate food, supplies, etc</p>
<p>Okay, the ideas in Anon<em>Person</em>1's post are good, but those money figures are outrageous. Prom at most schools doesn't even cost as much as that "semi-formal." If you have a normal school where people have normal amounts of money, you could try the same ideas with lower prices. </p>
<p>You could also just have a casual dance and charge $5 at the door. You get 200 kids to come (which is easy as long as you have at least 600 kids in your school) and you have $1000 minus the cost of chaperones. If you advertise the dance to other schools in your area, you can bring in even more money.</p>
<p>If you go to a school where you wear uniforms/have a dress code, you can also schedule a pay-to-dress-down day like AnonPerson suggested. Charge like $1, though; $5 is ridiculous.</p>
<p>You could talk to clothing stores in your area and get t-shirt prices from them. Then you could design or have a friend design a design for a t-shirt. Sell them for X amount of money and keep the proceeds. </p>
<p>There are so many ideas, just try one out. Most people don't have a problem doing these types of things, especially when they're for a good cause.</p>
<p>lol wth? prom costs $200 a ticket for me, and semi formal is $90</p>
<p>Where do you people live? My school's prom is $75 and Homecoming(semi-formal, I guess) is $35 per bid, and our school's are the most expensive ones in the city.</p>
<p>My school (CA) won't allow a casino night + raffle...gambling is prohibited. >_></p>
<p>Prom - $70-80
Formal - $40</p>
<p>stupid idea here: Fashion Show 2008.</p>
<p>Pay if you're dressing up, pay if you're coming. Attracts a lotta people <em>I hope</em></p>
<p>Haha. Prom= $30 at the door, $25 in advance for my school.</p>
<p>For fundraisers though, silent auctions with donations make quite a lot of money. And penny drives can be pretty good if the teachers make it kind of a competition- if my class raises $300, then I'll dress up as a risque chicken (or something of the sort).</p>
<p>We do have fashion shows at my school (for some reason), although I've never attended one. Really have no idea how successful they are.</p>
<p>Sell class sweatshirts and t-shirts.</p>
<p>FOOD.</p>
<p>It always sells, whether it's candy, pizza, chips, sodas, whatever; people will buy it. My school has banned the sale of such items on campus, so we have to resort to lame stuff that no one will buy, such a coupon books and cookie dough. There are even people now that secretly sell snacks out of their backpack and make $100s every week.</p>
<p>We did a good one a few years ago...made thousands. It takes work, though. There are plenty of parents who can donate things from their companies, and you can solicit much more at malls, etc. We got tons of stuff, then had a 'kid bid'---an auction just for the students. No parents were allowed to bid. We had wonderful things to auction off--one was 4 yankee tickets to a good game, one was the mayor doing your homework for a night (this mayor happened to be a nationally infamous guy--that little girl has a great story to tell now). We did it for a few years, and it went really well.</p>
<p>For orchestra, we did a "tacos and tunes" fundraiser, and people would come and eat tacos while a small ensemble played, and they could donate money, and they had to pay $5 for a ticket.</p>
<p>other groups have done chili and spaghetti dinners.</p>
<p>handyandy, NY...and those prices aren't ridiculous-they're actually cheap for my area-prom is about $300-400 for a pair, if not more</p>
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That's disgusting.</p>
<p>^It sure is.</p>
<p>My HS is having our Winter Formal at the Queen Mary this year and our tickets started at $35...but I procrastinated so I'll end up paying twice that much. </p>
<p>Hurrah for too much to deal with.</p>
<p>i forgot to mention that bake sales are probably the easiest way to go. i usually hold a bakesale twice a semester, and usually make about $350. ask people you work with to bring in stuff; it'd be smart to invest your own money and go to a whole sale store, like bj's / cosco's / sam's club, etc. buy big packages of donuts, cupcakes, apple pie, muffins, etc. then, sell each donut, cupcake, piece of the pie, and muffin individually for $1. you'll make a hella profit. if you can get your hands on some cultural food, that'd be great as well.</p>
<p>Most effective ways:
sell brownies
selling yourself huh huh?
i have my own lawn mowing business seriously</p>
<p>Bake sales work wonders. The simplest ideas like that can get you a good profit without too much work (just have like ~20 people bake stuff).</p>
<p>As for Prom: At my school, it's somewhere between $70-90 per person. Not too bad.</p>
<p>wooow. my prom = $40 I think?</p>
<p>we do have class assessments of $25 each year though.</p>