FUNDRAISERS
Garage Sale - Our most
successful fundraiser was
a garage sale. We made over $2000 dollars,
and were able to send all our girls and leaders to camp free. It was a
lot
of work, but well worth the return. The Ward members donated their
junk.
The ward camp director, gather stuff in her garage for about two weeks.
The
girls got together 3 or 4 times to sort through stuff and price mark.
We
received a lot of clothes donations, so we went through them and picked
out
the best and donated the rest to the GoodWill. We had so much stuff, we
thought
we would never get rid of it all. but after two days, we had $2000 and
very
little stuff. We sold stuff pretty cheap so people were taking it like
crazy.
You do need parents to work the garage sale during the day while the
girls
are at school. we had the kids come over during early morning seminary
to
set out the tables (tables were from the church). We held our garage
sale
in early May, when people we excited about going to garage sales again.
-- Denise Devey
Family
Home
Evening on Wheels - This
fund raiser was a lot of work, but was well worth it in the end.
We put together 5 different family home evening lesson packets,
each with a different theme. We did: Building
a Ship of Faith (Nephi/Lehi), Land that We Love (Patriotic), Love to
See
the Temple, Faith of the Pioneers. We included an outline, a scripture
that
could be hung on the fridge, a song, a game, a story, a recipe.
We had
the girls completely finish the packets (colored the pictures, made the
games,
etc.). People signed up at church for how many packets they
wanted.
During the entire month of June, on Monday nights, we delivered
the
packets, along with a treat, to the homes of those who had signed up.
So
basically, they had family home evening delivered to their door ready
to
go! The treats were easy (Rice Krispie Treats, Caramel Popcorn,
Candy
Bars, Frozen Cookie Dough, etc.) People could also sign up to get
just
the lesson packets. We charged $4.00 (lesson only) or $6.00
(lesson
& treat). We had almost sixty five families in our ward
participate
and to our surprise, ended up making about $1,600 dollars. Many
in
our ward commented that thier children loved getting the packets and
that it got their family back on track with having family home evening.
If you decide to do it, just start early and remember to obey
copyright laws!
DOUGHNUTS: - For our
fundraiser this year we decided to make doughnuts. This is
probably better for a small group as we only had to raise money for 6
girls. We met on Tuesday
night and each girl made phone calls to friends, neighbors, and ward
members.
They had to pre-sell enough doughnuts to cover their cost of
camp.
Our camp cost $50. We sold the doughnuts for $5/dozen. So
each
girl had to get 10 orders. We made arrangements to deliver that
Saturday
morning between 10 & 2 pm. We then met at my house Saturday morning
8am.
and made 60 dozen doughnuts. I know it sounds like a lot, but it
really
went fast. We had several tables, 2 rolling pins, several
doughnut
cutters and 3 fryers. We made one kind (raised, glazed) and as
soon
as a few dozen were glazed and packaged we had a leader and girl
start
delivering.
It really was easy and it was the talk of the ward the
next day at church. --Lisa
SERVICE AUCTION: - Our ward does a Service
Auction. People in the ward and out volunteer there time to be bid on.
YM would be bid on for yard work, car detailing, the YW were offering
baby sitting, cooking, cleaning. The other people in the ward would offer computer help, quilting/sewing
lessons etc. Then that night it would be crazy with people trying to
out bid each other. It was a great $$$ maker!!! Jill
FIESTA DINNER/YARD SALE: - For the past five
years
we have done a Fiesta dinner / yard sale day. the event starts out with
the Young Men who for the past week have gathered up all the ward
members yardsale items. On the selected day (Sat.) they have a sale
from 7am to 2pm. Then the youth come over to a leader's home and
roll burrows. Then at
4 p.m. they set up at the church. At 6:30 pm, ward members
arrive
who have bought tickets $3 per person and $15. a family.(the tickets
are
sold by the youth. the credit goes to that person who sold the ticket.)
the
youth serve the dinner( 1 burro which is beef and pork, rice,beans and
salad)
as the dinner is going there is a silent auction going on.
This
consists of many months of gathering up items from different merchants
who
have donated their goods or service towards our auction. We have also
sent
signups around the ward for members who would like to donate their new
items
and or services. The youth have also made tons of goodies for
this. So we let the silent auction go all through dinner.
You have to keep an eye on everyone so they don't get bored and stop
the bidding when things seem to be winding down. ( Our yardsale
has brought in anywhere from $400 to $600 each year) after
all the receipts have been taken care of , the money from the dinner
and yard sale came in at $2400. which paid for camp for the girls and
boys camp . Now the kids have to earn all this by signing up to
help in the set up, yardsale, dinner, and takedown. We have a
sign up sheet in each area of work and we figure out the hours
and they get paid a hourly wage form the total ($2400). Of course
everyone's camp fees do get paid, we just don't let them know
that. This way
they work harder. THIS TAKES AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS OF PLANNING.
Two
months before the event all letters to merchants need to be out so that
they
have time to repond. We also sent letters out for donated items to make
the
dinner. Safeway has always been very nice and given gift certificates
for
the beef and pork (40 to 50 lbs) for 150 burrows is our average. Some
items
we have had are dinner tickets from restraunts, movie tickets, window
tinting,
the local businesses have been the best to receive from. -- Colleen
Mother's Day: - We dipped strawberries in
white and milk chocolate, placed them in long plastic containers
(single rose floral containers) and tied them with ribbon. Our
ward loves this and we have done it for three years in a row with no
complaints.
Father's Day: - We make fancy triple layer cakes
and sell individual slices. We put them in plastic containers and
tie a ribbon with a fork attached to it.
Christmas: - We made centerpieces out of pine
boughs, candles and shiny ball ornaments. The ward used them as
centerpieces for the adult christmas party and then those who had
ordered them could
choose what they wanted. There were extras available for others
who
did not have an opportunity to sign up.
WARD COOKBOOK: - This year we are creating a Ward
Cookbook. We asked everyone to donate recipes.
We
organized the recipes into categories and had one of the young
women
draw a picture of the church to be included in the recipe book.
One
of our Laurels is coordinating it as one of her Laurel
Projects.
We found a cookbook publisher that will save us a lot of time and
help
it look really professional. We should be making about
$5.00
profit off of each book. If you are interested call
1-800-227-7282
and ask Cookbook Publishers, Inc. to send you a sample kit that
explains
every detail. The more members you have donate recipes the more
books
will be sold. Any books leftover we plan to sell to friends and
family
outside the ward. Plus the Young Women will have something to keep and
use
once they grow up & move away. Victoria - Salt Lake City
CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES: - This year our ward is
sending a family overseas to the temple. With our first
fundraiser we have raised over $400 in profits by simply selling
chocolate chunk
cookies by the dozen. We charged $5.00 a dozen and have raised
that
much. This has been such a successful fundraiser. Meagan
SALE JAFRA COSMETICS: - Earn UP TO 50% of your
total sales to help pay for the cost of Girls' camp. These
cosmetics are high
quality, allergy tested products. Gift sets are available to sell
and
make wonderful birthday, anniversary, get-well, thinking of you, etc.
presents.
HOAGIE SALE: - I wanted to share with you what
our YW have been doing for their fundraiser for the past several years.
They make
and sale hoagie type sandwiches. They are on a hoagie bun with
just
the cheese and the meat. This was whomever purchases them can
just
freeze them and get them out and put the condiments them
themselves. This way the sandwiches are not soggy when you go to
eat them. This fundraiser is a BIG hit in our ward. The
mother's like them because it makes making lunches tons easier.
The sandwiches are very delicious too!
COMMUNITY FAIR: - Here's an extremely successful
fundraiser our young women have been using for camp for the past seven
years.
Each fall our community has a fair/carnival--whatever you call it--and
sells
booth space to individual, businesses, etc. Non-profits get a
cheaper
rate. We buy a booth and sell cookies and lemonade. We pass
out
sign ups and recipes in RElief Society starting about 4 weeks before
for
4 or 5 kinds of cookies. Providing the recipes is important--it's
what
sets us apart from the bake sale booths and we ask them to make cookies
using
a standard ice cream scoop or quarter-cup measuring cup; this produces
a
Mrs. Fields-size cookie. We also pass around a signup for those
willing
to donate lemons, lemonade concentrate, ice, bottled water, cups,
napkins,
etc., all the supplies and ingredients. The girls pick up the
cookies
or they are dropped off to the leaders the night before. We have
the
girls sign up for 2-hour shifts and their camp fund is credited by the
hours
worked (profit/total hours=hourly rate x hours worked per girl).
We
sell lemonade for 50 cents a 16-oz glass and the cookies are 50 cents
each
or three for a dollar. We have repeat customers (non-lds) who
come
each year to buy from us and buy by the dozen. This year we
cleared
$900 for camp.
PIZZA COUPON: - We had a fabulous fund raiser
that
was extremely easy. Papa Murphy's has a pizza coupon card that
sells
for $5. The girls make $4 on the sale. The card pays for itself
the
first time a person uses it. We made a bundle and can't wait to
do
it again this year. We have members already asking for them...
WRAP PRESENTS: - Our ward has begun a tradition now for
fundraising for the cost of girls camp. The week before Christmas the
girls
set up a table just inside the local Kmart store and offer to wrap
presents
for the shoppers. (Ward families donate the paper, ribbon, and
tape.) We simply ask for donations from the shoppers or you could
set a price per item or size. They have done it 3 or 4 years now and it
really is fun for everyone. It's a great missionary experience as well
as people ask who you are and what you are doing it for. You do, of
course, need to get authorization from the store you would like to
participate in and plan way ahead!
SERVICE COUPONS: - For fundraising for camp, we
made each girl a service booklet. They had 4 pages, listed with
one hour of whatever the girls wanted to do (they wrote them out
themselves). For example, good for one hour of babysitting,
housecleaning, pet care,
yardwork, whatever. They sold the booklets to members of the ward and
family
friends for $10. This way, the girls were doing the work
themselves,
they got to choose what type of service they wanted to give, and we did
not
have to do the organizing and work, as so often happens, it
seems...
Anyone would love to get babysitting for $2.50 an hour!!! I have
four
kids so bought lots of books, also housecleaning ones, it was really
great
for single moms who need help, but cheap!! Each girl made about 10
booklets. Those who had trouble selling (or were too shy) got
help from us as people in the ward wanted to purchase booklets but
didn't necessarily know any of the YW to ask for one. You could
advertise in the ward bulletin and bulletin board.
HOMEMADE JAM: - For one of our fundraisers for camp we
made homemade jam and sold it in pint and baby size jars.
MOTHER'S DAY PIES: - One year in YW I
remember going to one of my leaders homes and we made a ton of
pies.
Just real simple pies with no bake crust. Lists were passed
around
in Priestood to sign up to buy a pie. There were I think 3
different
kind of pies which we offered to sell. The mothers were
surprised and we all delivered them to the houses. It was so much
fun making them and we earned a lot of money from it.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST DINNER: - We had a great
fundraiser this year. We had a pancake breakfast dinner. We
served pancakes,
sausage, and eggs. We charged 5$ per person or 25$ per family. Children
5
and under were free. The food was not very costly, so we made quite a
bit
of money just from the tickets. After dinner we had a silent auction.
Members
would donate items, services or talents. ex. golf lessons,
decorated
cake coupon, 6 hours babysitting, wreath, free window treatment, gift
certificates ect. We'd display these items on large tables with a slip
of paper next to it with the name of the item and the starting bid
price at the top. Below that would be several blank lines where a
person would put there name and their bid on it. We allowed a
certain amount of time for the auction, so that everyone was given the
opportunity to bid as many times as they wanted to on as many items
they wanted. When the aution time ran out, we quickly would pick up the
sheets and than yell out who won the bid on that particular item and
then they would come up and pay for it. We made of 1000 dollars that
night. It was a lot of fun!
BACKYARD DINNER: - We have done a traditional
fundraiser, for three years now, to earn money for camp
equipment. We have a teriyaki chicken dinner with a rice
dish, roll, salad, green beans, and drink. For dessert, we have a
dessert auction. For the auction, each yw brings a dessert to be
auctioned off. The guests bid for the desserts and get
to take them home. It is a lot of fun. We sell the dinner
tickets
for $5 and a family ticket for $25. We usually make about a third
of
the money off of the auction. The yw help with decorations,
selling
tickets, set up, etc. We do it in a ward member's backyard.
It
is a nice atmosphere and better for the bidding. (bidding should not be
done
in the church). Debbie Simpson,
Bakersfield,CA
LOVE BOAT: - We did a "Love Boat" fundraiser this
year just before Valentine's but it can be done anytime of year.
We
had pictures taken as the couple arrived, a matre'd to guide them to
their
tables which were pre-assigned with placecards. We served a beautiful
dinner,
the decorations were simple (a few fish in a glass jar on a mirror tile
on
top of a cloth napkin), we had the younger kids do a square dance and
one
of our leaders singing groups sang love songs, we had a dessert bar
(made
by each girl) and then had dancing, and additional pictures at a cost
and
candy roses at an additional cost. We feel it was a great success
not
only for funds but for the unity of our ward! Any questions
Delynn
FUNDRAISER OFFER TO SELL: - We sell matted &
matted and framed artwork of calligraphic scriptures (Return with Honor
is our most popular which my mother is author/artist) we have Home
Rules, Joy, the Ten Commandments a bunch. I would love to offer
them to the Young Women groups to do as a fundraiser as well as
teaching them how to mat something. An 8X10 sells for $8.00 and I
can sell it to them at $4.80 each matted, an 11X14 sells for $14.00 and
they can buy it for $8.40. I will send order info. and a sample,
then they only buy what they sell and I will send everything but the
scotch tape and I will send a video to show how to do it. I
wanted to do this with my ward but did the "Love Boat", hey...there is
always next year! Delynn
Ogden,Utah
SPAGHETTI DINNER/CAKE AUCTION: - We are
going to have a Spaghetti dinner complete with salad, spaghetti, rolls,
and ice cream. We are charging $5.00 a person, $10.00 a couple,
or $12.00
per family. We are decorating the cultural hall like an
Italian
Restaurant; i.e., table cloths, flowers on the table, silk trees with
Christmas
lights strung in them, using the church's dishes rather than paper
plates,
a violinist walking around playing music (or a CD in the background),
hostess
as the guests walk in, and waitresses. Our Young Women are
dressing
in black pants or skirts and white shirts. They are going be
assigned
to a table and responsible for serving the table's food.
Following the dinner, we are going to have a cake
auction. Members of the ward signed up to bring decorated
cakes. We are not
charging the missionaries for dinner, however we have asked them to
bring
a cake. In another ward, their missionaries cake was decorated
like
a Book of Mormon. It sold for $60.00. Some of the other
cakes
sold for as high as $300.00. It will depend upon how wealthy some
of
your members are. We are also selling slices of cake for $1.00
per
slice. This will allow all members to participate just in case
they
don't want to or can't bid.
This may seem like a lot of work, however this is going
to be our only fundraiser for camp. By shopping for the food at
Sam's
Club or a similar store that has bulk food, you are able to get enough
food
for around 100 people for about $100.00. It depends upon how
skimpy
you want to be with the food. You should easily be able to make a
profit. Another ward in our stake just finished doing this. They
made almost $1500.00. Jennie - Melbourne Florida
CAR WASH: - When I was teaching the dance team at
a local high school, we sold tickets to our car wash for three weeks in
advance. This way we had the donation even if we didn't get the
business. Added to the idea about Walmart matching funds could be
a real winner to pay for camp - Karrie
AMERICAN FLAGS AND HOLIDAYS: - For an on-going
fundraiser that isn't door-to-door, we pass sign-up sheets around the
ward each year for those who would like a flag to be placed in their
yard on every patriotic holiday like Presidents Day, 4th of July, 24th,
Memorial Day, etc. On
those days we put flags up in the morning and take them down at
night. It's neat to see the streets lined with flags. We
charged $30.00 for a year. In subsequent years, you keep all the
money since you only have
to buy flags once.
MOTHER'S DAY BALLOON BOUQUETS: - Last year we had
a very popular one that was easy and really earned a lot of money. We
sold
a bouquet of balloons around Mother's day. They weren't geared to
Mothers particularly. We met at the church early on Saturday
morning and made bouquets of seven balloons in each with heluim
attached with ribbon and a rock wrapped in tissue paper. We had a
card with it that the people could write in and then delivered them
right after they were made.
The balloons didn't cost much (since we live next to a wedding place)
and
the ribbon was the same. We made over 350$! from it.
It
was lots of fun, fast and easy. Lisa
ICE CREAM PIES: - This year we are selling ice
cream pies. If anyone would like the recipe I would be glad to
send it to them. They are very easy to make and we sell them for
about $8. Lots of profit. June
HOMEMADE CHOCOLATES: - To earn money for camp we
made homemade chocolates. We went and bought several bags of molding
chocolates and molds and on an activity night made about 200 chocolates
( Mostly suckers). We sold them for $1.00. They were a huge success! Lacey
YARD SALE: - Another one we did was we had a yard
sale. We asked people from our branch to donate old things that they
didn't
need anymore. We sold everything real cheap and we still earned a lot
of
money! Lacey
VALENTINE COOKIES: - A wonderful fundraiser that
has worked out well for us for the passed three years is we sell
Valentine Day cookies. We give out order forms with a choice of
Sugar or Chocolate Chip cookies, what you would like your message to
say, name and date of
delevery. We sell two large cokkie for $3.00. Kentucky
CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS BABYSITTING: - We are having
Stake YW Camp this year. We are doing fundraisers to keep the
cost down for the young women. Our young women will be
babysitting at different ward buildings for 3 different Saturdays for
moms and dads who would like to go Christmas shopping without the
kids. The charge will be $2.00 per hour and the hours will be
from 9:30 a.m. -2:00 p.m.
Nancy
CAKE AUCTION: - Our young women baked cakes for a
cake auction. After a branch dinner we had a "cake
auction".
The cakes were auctioned to the highest bidder. It was a huge
success
for everybody, the girls made the cakes, the young women's program
benefitted
from the proceeds, and the people of the branch had some good eating. Regina
HOMEMADE PIZZAS: - My ward did a pizza
making fundraiser to earn money for camp this year. We had an
order sheet
and gave each of the girls on with 10 orders. Each girl sold pizzas
first,
with no more than two toppings each. The pizzas were $10.00 each, and
sold
very quickly to members of the ward, and even friends from school. We
then
collected all the orders by a certain date, and had the pizza making
day
on a Saturday with every Young Women who had sold pizzas to help make
them.
We put the pizzas together, covered them in plastic wrap, and delivered
them
that same day with instructions on how to bake them. The buyers then
baked
them themselves, and it was a great success!! We had tons of money
leftover
that went to equipment for the ward. It was so fun!!! We (the girls)
even
had races and contests for who could sell the most. Heather
CAR WASH AT WALMARTS: - We had a car wash at Wal
Mart, they will match what you make up to $500.
MOTHER'S DAY CORSAGES: - We had the girls make
corsages for mother's day. We had the girls call everyone in the
ward to take orders. The Saturday before mother's day the young
women met at the church and we assembled them and delivered them.
We charged $10 each and made a TON of money. Look in your phone
book under florist-wholesale to find a source for less expersive
flowers.