Food and Candy Fundraisers

Buying food items through a fundraising company and then reselling them for profit is one of the easiest ways to raise funds in a short period of time. Daycare businesses and their families can sell chocolate bars, beef jerky, cookies, etc.  For those worried about calories and fat, try fat free fruit snacks like Welch’s Fruit Snacks Variety Packs.  Another good idea is to try to contract with your local high school sports team to operate the concession stands at home games.

Pre-sell/Brochure Fundraising

Through fundraising companies, daycare businesses can sell items from colorful brochures to raise money. Children and parents can show the brochure s to family and friends and ask them to purchase items like flower bulbs, candles, and stationery to support the daycare. Sellers should collect the money at the time of the sale and the sale should last about two weeks. Items like personalized books from Personalized Books USA are great sellers.

Recycling Fund Raisers

A recycling fundraiser is an earth-friendly way to secure additional funding for your daycare. Hold a recycling drive and ask the families in your daycare as well as those in the community to bring in their recyclables . Request everything from the usual plastic, glass, and paper, to used printer cartridges, computers, and cell phones. Locate organizations like Funding Factory which offer programs for educational and nonprofit organizations and gives them extra funds for recycling e-waste.

Artwork Sales and Auctions

Another unique way of childcare fundraising is through artwork sales or auctions. Scan your students’ artwork and then make note cards out of them. You can also frame artwork and find creative ways to showcase crafts. Then hold a note card sale or artwork and crafts auction.

Walkathons

Hold a small walkathon in your local park. Children and adults can participate, using friends, family, coworkers and neighbors as sponsors. Then set a simple and specific goal for the walkers like 5 laps or 5 miles. Participants should ask sponsors to pledge by the lap or to make a lump sum donation. You can also add other fun events like a teeter-totter or swinging contests to see who can endure the longest.

Bake Sales and Car Washes

Bake Sales are also an easy way to generate cash. Ask parents to volunteer to bring in baked goods and sell them for profit. Hold periodic car washes in your neighborhood. Ask parents to volunteer as well to wash cars, generate traffic, make signs, and handle sales.

Be sure to make use of the families in your daycare. Ask them to make flyers, posters, and volunteer their time. Many parents are happy to help. There is also a wealth of information in print and on the internet. A daycare financing guide can provide a variety of way to raise funds for your thriving daycare business.

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Win the Learning Experience
The involvement of the children in their fund raising activities may not be required but there are many reasons why they should. Aside from the fact that the children are the primary beneficiaries of the said activities, being involved in fundraising activities will also help them learn the sense of the responsibility that comes with it. They will also learn important values as they do the assigned tasks given to them. Values such as hard work, patience, perseverance and dedication are few of the things they will learn. No matter how simple they tasks maybe, it is a good avenue for them to start to work and get things done on their own. This will develop their sense of responsibility to things that they are expected to do.

The staff and organizers will be the mentors of the young children. They guide and assist the children as they learn. They will give reasonable tasks to the kids that they are capable of doing. In this kind of activities, it is a two way learning experience both for the kids and the staff.

The Rewarding Benefit
The involvement of the children who are the beneficiaries of the activity will help to encourage people to share whatever they have. It will be a good way for the people to see who will benefit from their donations. The children thus, can capture the hearts of people that would become more eager to help them. It will reflect the mission of the activity to help children and give them the support they need.

The involvement of the children in such activities may not be required. But one thing is for sure that is the children can make a lot of difference. Aside from helping in their own little ways, they can also encourage more people to give funds for their daycare center just by being involved. And at the end of the day whether they join in the activities or not, the effort and hard work of the staff and organizers will always be for their benefits.

See: How to start a daycare center

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