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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Pick an appropriate theme. When planning what could be the concept of your campaign and brainstorming on ideas to execute during the fundraising activity, think about children. Everything about children must be portrayed in your activity since the campaign is for their benefit. Your event naturally should be child-friendly where kids could easily relate to. Being that, your event must cater to all ages and should not discriminate certain age groups or special needs. Your fundraising activities and ideas should also be appropriate for daycare fundraising. For instance, a date auction is a hit for high school and college fundraising but it is not for child daycare. Think about ideas that will involve the children in the daycare such as a bake sale. The theme of your fundraising activity should not be too grandiose or complicated making donors hesitate whether you really needed funding or not. It should be simple as possible and getting the participation of children in your activity will make it even more appealing.

Your fundraising event’s theme must also match the interests of your potential donors and attendees so that they will be persuaded to be involved in your cause and donate. By being mindful of the concept or theme of your fundraising event, you can expect your campaign to be successful.

Choose an appropriate content. After you have decided what appropriate theme to use, being the organizer of a child daycare fundraising campaign makes you responsible in choosing well the content of your event. If you choose to sale items so you can generate money, make sure that the items for sale are also child-friendly. Take extra effort in making certain that the things for sale are fit for all no matter what the age is. If for example a family decides to visit your set-up and find nothing appropriate for them, they will not be persuaded to donate. It is always an important thing to consider that fundraising for children should also be family friendly. Enjoin parents to donate by winning them with your purpose. Have that purpose delivered with the right thing and the right content. This not only protects the image of your daycare center but convinces parents to donate funds as well.

See: How to start a childcare service

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Meetings will be held amongst organizers and volunteers. Disagreements will happen. Distribution and division of action takes place. Giving out information to the public and meetings with possible sponsors and donors takes place. This is where hard work and action takes place, inviting and convincing the sponsors and the public to participate in an event for a good cause. That is why the right ideas are of utmost importance.

Here are some tried and tested ideas the organizers can use and develop for their fundraising activity and event.

Selling
The item sale is the most common and the most highly regarded idea for a fund raising activity because it has always given the organizer positive and favourable results. The item sale is so common as it requires very minimal effort in planning and not much money to organize. In a normal fund raising activity item sale, organizers buy objects that are auctioned off or sold to bidders and buyers. But in a day care fund raising activity, organizers seek sponsors who will and can contribute items to be sold in the fund raising activity. The organizers look for and set up meetings with sponsors by talking to owners of establishments within the daycares’ vicinity and surrounding neighbourhood. They, both organizers and sponsors, can agree on a profit share scheme. The share of profit of the sponsor will be added to the amount the items were sold for and given to the sponsor, while the profit share of the organizers go to the day care centre. Obviously, this will not require the organizer to spend a single cent.

The baked goods sale idea. It is in this idea that the organizers approach and ask the parents of each day care child enrolee to contribute baked goods to be sold in the fund raising activity. This is more effective than approaching possible sponsors and has the capacity to earn more funds for the day cay centre. The organizers sell the baked goods for a certain price to attract customers or at an agreed mark-up for a profit. In an agreed mark-up set-up, the organizers will have to share the profit with the parents. The profits that the organizers collect will be added to the amount the baked goods items were sold for and given to the day care centre. The children’s parents can even sell the goods themselves for a great bonding activity with their children. The parents can also help in promoting the fund raising activity of the day care centre through their means like email, and by inviting their own friends and officemates, family members and relatives.

As far as location goes, the day care centre itself is often at the top of the list. Organizers redecorate the day care centre for the fund raising activity. Next would be the door to door type of selling. Both ways are very good and often produce positive and great results for the children and the day care centre. Aside from not requiring too much money to plan, the children are often very excited with this type of idea knowing that they will get the chance to spend time with their parents and friends.

Add to these, the organizer can also take into consideration of the parents’ main focus and primary attention: their children. The children can take center stage as organizers can sell items that the kids made themselves. Or they can sell these children’s pictures, as for greeting cards. Though it may not seem a good idea, parents will be more than glad to help and see their kids through this fund raising activity

Organizing is Easy!
Though it was stated earlier that the difficult part lies in organizing and planning a fund raising activity, planning such fund raising activity does not involve rocket science. Day care fund raisers are wonderful fund raisers, particularly if the organizers involve the children. The centre can be turned into a mini-restaurant, and the children will be the waiters and waitresses where they can wear costumes made by themselves. Some of them can even go into a make shift kitchen and play chefs, complete with toques (chef’s hat) and prepare the food, an idea the parents will definitely enjoy. Parents will surely embrace the idea of, for once, being served and cooked for by their children.

Must be Fun
Other ideas abound which the organizer can consider, apply and use for the fund raising event. The organizer must consider that these ideas must have the element of fun for the kids. Fun, fun, fun! When people give the idea of fun to a kid, their eyes suddenly glow and light up like light bulbs. It’s the best way to entice children to attend and, more importantly, participate in a fund raising activity. It becomes another venue for them to play and laugh with the other children. Surely they will appreciate it more when their parents and family are in it.

See: How to start a daycare center

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