<p>First off; I am asking for some help of ideas in here. If you are going to make a rude comment on the posts here; please don't. </p>
<p>At my high school I'm currently the president of our Red Cross club, and we talk a bit back and forth with the the Boston Red Cross. However it's been an immediate obvious that all plans have been pushed onto a concern about the Tsunami diaster. I'm sure all of us have already heard of it; and basically, I'm hoping to be able to raise 20k from our surronding town, and hopefully be able to do it correctly. </p>
<p>Now at this point; we are having trouble coming up with strong ideas. I'm well aware of a typical bake sale, but I'm going to doubt that it brings in enough profits at all. </p>
<p>Currently; we have two decisions to sell Domino cards (Domino's holds a fundraiser in which they promise to the holders of the cards that buying a 15 dollar card; for the next 20 purchases, they will honor a buy one get one free. Basically it's a punch card, with 20 holes)</p>
<p>However in a rough estimation; we'll estimating is about 2000-3000 which in my opinion is basically rough and not enough at all. </p>
<p>The next option we have is (we plan to do these back-back) to sell magazine subscriptions. Hoping to make a flyer for every student of the school; so that the point is where every student understands the complex issues that that the diastor survivors are dealt with and are willing to buy a magazine subscription that some of the $$$ will go back directly to RC.</p>
<p>Already; 100% will go directly to the diastor relief, so none of it is used for management, etc. </p>
<p>Now the problem is; to those whom have had experience, what are great methods to raise fundamental large amounts of money for the survivors. Hoping to do this as strong as fast as possible after vacation due to the fact that people will be more compelled to as they realize as the casaulties grow higher each day.</p>
<p>i wanted to raise money in my school too but we don't hav ea volunteer club.. I'll do it through student government but im not sure where to take the money..</p>
<p>You may want to partner up with a local organization (i.e. A-Red Cross, etc.,) that is currently assisting in the Relief effort. They have a better trained staff and will be able to give you a good idea as to what exactly you need to do.</p>
<p>Depending on how large your member base is, a candy sale may be in order, but in the Los Angeles Unified School District, they so-happily ** BANNED ** candy sale drives..</p>
<p>We are currently teamed up with American Red Cross, and that is where we're getting the idea from magazine subscriptions. I've been talking with the president of a nearby high school of her Red Cross, (we all co-work together) and that's where I got the dominos idea. I may see how thesible the candy bar seems. Basically we're looking at anything that generates high high revenues.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response. </p>
<p>sexydesi , best of luck with yours also. Anything can be accomplished through hard enough work.</p>
<p>talk to your parish priest/minister/chaplain (if you go to church) and ask if you could give a sermon on the disaster relief, and if the parishioners could double their donations for this week.</p>
<p>At my school the fundraiser method of choice is: a teacher goes out to buy pizzas during last period, comes back, and sells indiviudal slices. Each day they sell it they make upwards of a $100 in profit. Everybody loves pizza, even if they're too dazed and confused to realize that its for a good cause.</p>
<p>at our school, we are allowed to sell candy after school. maybe works same in cali</p>
<p>just asking people nicely can work. very effective if a store will let oyu solicit ( I did it at hastings and gout a couple 100 bucks in 2 hours. and out donation bins at stores. for osme reason Furr's( a fmaily dining place) got a lot of donations</p>
<p>I wish I had the guts to do that all over again. I think I'm gonna try this year</p>
<p>The solicit idea may be helpful; wishing there was one more big holiday coming up where we could hang around places to ask. Yesterday, my charter, (Boston Red Cross) was able to rake in 5 thousand in just a couple of hours outside a game, and the team then matched it. That was just one day. I guess it's targetting the right places.</p>
<p>at my school we did a fundraiser where we sold packaged coffee/tea from this organization:
<a href="http://www.sperocoffee.com/fundraising/%5B/url%5D">http://www.sperocoffee.com/fundraising/</a>
It worked out really well for us. You sell the bags of coffee for $10 a bag, and you get $5 profit for each bag. The bags also have a special URL on the label that people can use to reorder the coffee online, and your organization gets a couple dollars profit for those bags too. </p>
<p>A lot of parents/family are willing to buy coffee because it's something they know they'll use. Also, you can design your own labels, and I'm sure something with a "tsunami relief" label would really inspire people to buy your product.</p>
<p>Vegangirl, thanks for the idea. That sounds like something that would work into our favor greatly! I'm going to email my advisor about this, thank you so much. Designing your own labels to describe it sounds like one like a great idea that I like.</p>
<p>We do pizza sales at our school but they don't raise that much money (only ~$50). Bake sales and esp. bagel sales generate a lot more revenue. Try calling local bagel stores and see if they will donate their leftover bagels.</p>