<p>Girl Scouts do something like the option I suggested when selling cookies. You make money for your team, you bump your profits by offering the troop coffee option. No ulterior motives, just two birds with one stone.</p>
<p>Your fundraiser is for your team. You offer the troop option for people who don’t want to buy coffee for themselves.</p>
<p>^Ah i see.</p>
<p>^Ah i see. Or maybe I could do a coffee fundraiser AND a TALENT SHOW!! We all winn then!! The former won’t take long considering ill have a team to help me. The latter will, however.</p>
<p>At my daughter’s school, they did coffee house evenings where students would perform. It is similar to a talent show, but it has a more laid back atmosphere and you could charge admission and sell light refreshments. Your audience would be more students than parents.</p>
<p>^Hmm…good idea. These coffee house evenings were in school?
If not, I don’t know where i could get a place to host such events around here (i.e. more work for me=yuck :))</p>
<p>Or i could have a talent show with students and teachers performing? That would bring in a larger group for the show.</p>
<p>Do you think starbucks or something like would participate in fundraisers? This way it would be better since they would give me the coffee upfront to sell to people during the talent show.</p>
<p>Nevermind. I’ll do the coffee fundraiser separately w/ a troops option and the talent show separately, with refreshments sold at the talent show. It’s some great ideas! Thank you. Once again, CC never fails.</p>
<p>The coffee house was a regular event, perhaps once a month, at my daughter’s school. The school had a lovely performing arts building with a large reception area, which doubled as the lunchroom area. If you can get something started that is a regular activity, you can develop a stream of income for your group. It takes a while to get the activity established, but then people look forward to it and prepare for it. Your music and theater teachers might be able to help you get started.</p>
<p>Best wishes with the events you’re planning. Let us know what happens.</p>
<p>Do keep in mind that even easy appearing projects will take more time than you imagined, and it’s likely that you’ll face more hurdles – including over minor things – than you expected. People who promised to do things will back out, too.</p>
<p>However, try to make it a team project/school project, not your project. Sharing the glory of creating these things, including welcoming others’ ideas, will also help others to invest more in it and to contribute more to help. This is what it means to be a leader.</p>
<p>^Yes i understand. Thank you for the help!</p>
<p>And MDMOM—our school is fairly poor to have “an arts building with a large reception area” so i doubt the event could be established as a program every month. The talent show can be done in auditorium, however, as a one time thing. Maybe twice throughout the year if need be but no way would our school provide the resources for it to be an established program. Thanks for the help though!</p>