School Fundraising Products

  • School Fundraising

    Keep school fundraising simple

    With our turnkey products, you’ll raise money without having to build a fundraiser from the ground up.

    Avoid upfront costs and needless work. Your students can either take orders from a catalog, or have the actual product in hand to exchange for money on the spot.

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  • Overall, it was a good experience. The prize program was great!

    Dori Golan — Sponsor
    Trinity Episcopal School

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How Does a School Fundraising Product Sale Work?

If you’re looking for ways to bring in more money for your organization, you’re at the right place. According to greatschools.org, groups bring in more than $1.5 billion annually selling school fundraising products. 71% of parents have sold these products to their friends, family and work colleagues. This translates into roughly 80% of the total dollars raised by schools.

With a seemingly endless selection of products to choose from, how do you find the right product to sell?

One way to narrow down you choice is to understand how product sales work. We offer 2 popular options:

  1. Collect orders and money up front by showing people products in a brochure.
  2. Order the product first, then sell it.

Brochure Fundraising

First, select a brochure from one of our 5 categories. We offer fall and spring shoppers, cookie dough, frozen food and specialty catalogs.

We’ll send you enough brochures for everyone in your group. You’ll also receive order forms, money collection envelopes, and a prize flyer to help motivate your students to make sales. After 2 weeks of selling, send in your order forms for processing.

Your merchandise then arrives prepacked by seller to help make distribution easy.

Selling a Product

Some schools prefer to have their students show an actual product rather than items in a brochure. One advantage is that people get to see it before they buy. And once the sales are complete, the students simply turn in the money and the sale is over.

You can choose from a wide variety of products, including beef jerky, candy bars, discount cards, popcorn and pretzel rods.

Why Choose Our School Fundraising Program?

  • 100% Product Guarantee – We make this offer because we carry the highest quality products in fundraising. If your customer doesn’t like an item, everyone gets their money back.
  • Huge Product Selection – We make it easy for you to find the right fundraiser from our many options. Just choose the category that you’re interested in, then pick your product.
  • No Upfront Payment – You only pay us after you’ve collected your money.
  • Low Minimums & Free Shipping – We make raising money easy. Be sure to check out our free shipping link available on each product page.
  • Exclusive ‘Calculate Your Profit’ Tool – Determine how much money you can make before you start your fundraiser. This tool will also help you find out much product to order based on your specific goals.
  • 5-Star Customer Service – Our customers tell our story for us. Just check out our reviews. We’re obsessed with your complete satisfaction.

School Fundraising Questions

  1. Do we have to pay anything to start a school fundraiser? You only pay us after you’ve collected your money. We’ll send you your brochure supplies or product for free.
  2. Do we have the option to only sell online? Yes, we offer this option year-round.
  3. How does school fundraising work? Simply select a product or brochure and well send you what you need to start. Once your sale is over, you pay us the difference between what you collect and your invoice.
  4. Are your customized school tumblers dishwasher safe? It depends on the tumbler. We don’t recommend putting our stainless tumblers in the dishwasher. The reason is that if it’s scratched and has been wet for a period of time it will rust. All of our Tritan plastic tumblers are top rack dishwasher safe and come with a lifetime guarantee.
  5. Are any of your fundraising products gluten free? All of our popcorn and lollipops are gluten free, and we offer a gluten free chocolate chip cookie dough flavor. For more information click on our nutritional links associated with each product or brochure.
  6. How much profit does the school make? You make 40% profit on brochure sales and with product sales, it depends on how much you order. You can make as much as 90%.

School Fundraising Ideas & Tips

  • Tell your students to approach a potential customer with a smile. It can make a big difference in the outcome.
  • Be polite. Remind your students to always thank people for their time, regardless of whether they buy or not.
  • Be prepared. Your students should have their brochure, order form, pen and money collection envelope with them.
  • Only have your students approach people that they’re already familiar with.
  • Teach older students the ‘NOW Selling Method’. Have them introduce themselves by sharing their Name, Organization, and Why they’re selling.
  • Any checks are made payable to the organization.
  • Encourage students to contact family and friends who live out of town to order online.
  • Have fun and be positive. This will translate into more sales.

School Fundraising Opportunity

So you know you want to fundraise, but maybe you don’t know where to start. With the assistance of our programs, many schools generate five figures in profits annually! It starts with you, the sponsor. You may be a parent, volunteer or school administrator, but no matter your role, we’re here to make selecting a product easier than ever.

Selecting a Product for Your School

Start by picking what type of product you want to sell: brochure, or product-in-hand? Make this selection by determining when and where you plan to sell. For instance, you could show a brochure to people during a school event like a field day, but students and parents would be distracted. Perhaps a better option would be to show the catalog outside of the school environment. For instance, you could take it to show work colleagues or to church on Sunday.

Field days, however, might be better for selling products like candy bars or beef jerky, because then people can immediately snack on it and go back to playing or supervising. A great way to introduce a brochure fundraiser is at a PTA meeting or parent’s night, where you can bring our ultimate coffee collection catalog for example. Parents will be eager to assist in raising funds for your child, since they may already be on the subject anyways, and can easily see themselves making the coffee and bringing it to future meetings or early mornings!

Creative School Fundraising Ideas

Next, you want to narrow down your options: make sure the product you choose is suitable for the season and the cause. For instance—no matter how much you love pretty gift wrap—you wouldn’t do a winter wrap sale right before Easter. You probably wouldn't have elementary school students sell discount cards because they wouldn’t fully understand the concept.

Instead, you may want to try a lollipop sale during a book fair; kids likely have already brought money to school with them, and now they can enjoy a lollipop while they read their new book. You also may solicit family and close friends with the spring flowers brochure on a really warm day, but not if it has just snowed outside.

If you’re raising money for school supplies, try selling Smencils at orientation or open house. You’ll be able to have an easy conversation about the importance of proper supplies in the classroom while someone is physically holding one.

Other Product Fundraiser Considerations

While brochure sales are money upfront, in-hand items require that you initially carry an inventory of unpaid merchandise. These can be important deciding factors as well, especially depending on who's organizing the fundraiser. Most sales yield a profit of at least 40% however, so no matter which option you choose, you will see winning results if you’ve planned your campaign intentionally and leveraged excitement around the cause.

Once you’ve honed in on the right type of fundraiser for your school, it’s time to set goals! Goals help kids to get more excited about what they’re working on, and also help teachers and parents keep them accountable. Keep the school informed on the progress and be sure to emphasize the prize rewards throughout the sale.