Ten Great Seasonal Ideas for Fundraising

What are seasonal fundraisers? They are productprices on fresh flowers can skyrocket at the last
sales where your group can benefit from seasonalminute.
demand for select products.Spring Flowers
Ten ideas for seasonal fundraisers:Another great seasonal fundraiser is selling flower
Halloween Pumpkin Patchbulbs in the early Spring. Several suppliers offer
Fall is a big season for fundraising and Halloweenpre-order brochures with colorful pictures and exotic
presents a great opportunity to host a Pumpkin Patchchoices. Extra profit tip: Offer discounts on orders
fundraiser. Line up a roadside site, decorate it withabove $50 because people will then buy more than
some hay bales, and display your pumpkins on a bedthey planned just to get the discount.
of straw. Extra profit tip: Buy pumpkins in bulk from aSpring Home & Garden
grower or at the local farmer's market.Other Spring fundraising items to offer include
Thanksgiving Turkeysdeliveries of pine straw or mulch by the truckload,
Selling turkeys for Thanksgiving is an easy way toone-gallon sized flowering shrubs, five-gallon sized
raise funds. Line up a wholesale source, put togetherdecorative trees, and other home & garden
an order form and brochure, then start taking orders.supplies. Extra profit tip: Work with a wholesale
Do a bulk purchase with the money from the prepaidnursery and charge extra for delivery.
orders and arrange a pickup day. Extra profit tip:Mother's Day Gifts
Charge a little extra if you have to make deliveries.Mother's Day is one of the best holidays to fund raise
Christmas Trees & Wreathesby offering pre-order gift selections such as jewelry.
The holiday season offers lots of opportunities to sellThe key is working with a high-end supplier with quality
seasonal products. You can order Christmas treesitems and getting your orders in well ahead of
from a wholesaler or grower and run your own salesdeadlines. Extra profit tip: Flower arrangements in
stand. Or, you can do an order-taker sale and offercreative containers are also big sellers.
various wreathes and different-sizes of trees. ExtraFourth of July Fireworks
profit tip: Sell more wreathes by showing samples.This is a great way to fund raise because suppliers will
Citrus Fruit & Poinsettiasline up the location, put up a sales tent, stock it with
Late fall is a great time to do an order-taker fundraiserfireworks, and give you 50% of total sales. All you
for fresh citrus fruit and holiday flowers. Potted holidayhave to do is supply salespeople for the week before
plants like poinsettias have huge profit margins andthe Fourth of July. Extra profit tip: Book early to get a
while the margins aren't as good on citrus fruit, thegood location like a Wal-Mart parking lot.
large order size means good profits from everySummer Pizza
customer. Extra profit tip: Save on freight with a fullThis is a great one for swim clubs and other youth
truckload order and buy poinsettias from wholesalesports groups to sell because everyone orders a lot of
nurseries.pizza in the summertime. You can get two-for-one
Valentines Day Rosespizza discount cards for $2 or less and sell them for
This holiday is all about showing appreciation for loved$10. Available choices include Papa John's, Pizza Hut,
ones and roses are a great product to offer. Theyand Dominos. Extra profit tip: Sell the discount cards at
can be chocolate roses, boxes of gourmet candy, ortables outside grocery stores, drug stores, Wal-Mart,
the traditional dozen roses in various colors. Extraetc.
profit tip: Line up a wholesale supplier in California andSo, there you have it, ten high-demand seasonal
lock in your pricing before taking orders becauseproducts for your next fundraiser.