sucky fundraisers
 

Anyone have an bad experence with a fundraiser they would kie to talk about? Thanks for the idea dgphoney.

Selling stuffed animals - I don't know who the braniac was who approved this - they were very tacky and impossible to sell.

I wasn't around for this one, but some of the younger alums HATED when we sold Avon. The ones who didn't like the products had a hard time convincingly selling it, and the ones who did ended up spending too much of their own $$$ which defeated the whole purpose.

lol funny fundraisers but creative. too bad they didn't work out.
My worst fundraiser was saleing donuts. I think we broke even. Who would buy donuts for more than they sell in the store?

cause it's for a good cause of course :)

Maybe but alot of people are still to cheap.

Maybe glo's should do what was done in Revenge of the Nerds- sell kisses...or pies! :)

magazines
 

We're doing a magazine drive right now, and a bunch of us couldn't sell ANY. I've done different ones back in grade school that was no problem, but the one we're doing now is through campusfundraisers.com, and it sucks! each subscription is $40, and although a lot of them are for like 2 1/2 years, how many college kids have $40 just to help you out? Even worse, they only give us 3 days we can sell for, and there are only 24 magazines to choose from. And if we don't make our goal, (which we're not going to) we don't get the full amount of money....our proceeds are greatly cut. We still get I think $10 per order, but if we could sell 60 we were going to get $1200. If there were more of us selling it might have worked, but we only had 16 or 18 of us, and we each were supposed to sell 5. I sold ZERO unless I decided to buy one myself. :(

We also tried the magazine subscriptions from campusfundraisers.com by they were impossible to sell. its not worth the time it takes to try to sell them.

I have a great fundraiser, but no one seems to go for it....any ideas why?
 

I work for a company that conducts fundraisers on college campuses (http://www.blp.customink.com), and every one I've ever run has made the student org. quite a bit of money for the amount of work put into it. It's selling t-shirts, which are fairly easy to sell to college students. Any idea why I can't get more organizations to do this fundraiser?

lilacgirl77:confused:

Y'all, my chapter did the magazine subscription thing, too, and it majorly flopped. I mean, it was pretty much a waste of our time. We were each only required to sell one, which I thought would be easy, but it turns out that at $40 for a 2-year subscription, everyone I asked was like, "You have *got* to be kidding me!" A bunch of girls ended up just buying the subscription themselves, but I did not have that much money lying around...and if I had, I sure wouldn't have spent it on ONE magazine subscription. So guess what--at our first chapter meeting this semester, we were informed that if we failed to sell our one magazine, we have to pay $50!! Wish someone had said something about that LAST semester when we actually did the stupid thing. I should have just bought the damned subscription and let it be... :o

Our last fundraiser we sold sausage and cheese, obviously no one brought it.

Magazines... well we actually had some limited success with those magazine sales. Had a few guys sell several subscriptions. All the profits went to their own formal costs but I can say that if they go out into their communities -- (folks at church seemed to buy the most) they will meet with success.

The cut you get on the magazine sales is pretty good as well.

LHT,
Kevin

Back in the old days......
 

We had a sorority on campus back in the late 80s (name omitted to protect the innocent) that held a one-day fundraiser in Marsh Plaza (the center of campus).

It was an M&M eat-a-thon. They took pledges from innocent bystanders who were betting on how many M&Ms they could sit around and eat in a day.

Credibility for Greek philanthropy on campus got flushed down the toilet that day. The campus paper was shredding them for 3 months.

Adrienne

We did the credit card signing and you get weird toys or t-shirt thing. It sucked ass. I was stuck with this stupid t-shirt begging people to sell their soul to the devil.

We decided to work at an outdoor concert, selling beer, food, whatever. We were SUPPOSED to get a percentage of what we sold as well as a small hourly fee. Well, it was one of those festivals that lasted a little over 11 hours! Soooo, by hour #7 we were all exhausted, sweaty and wanted to go home. We assumed it would be okay to leave seeing as though we had time cards and they did inventory checks on the hour so they knew about how much we had sold. Yeah, so we go and clock out- about 8 of us and then the fundraising chair and her friend stayed longer. Then, the fundraising chair announces at the meeting a few weeks later that the people that left made no money because they left early so she's keeping the money that came in because she and her friend were the only ones to stay!!! So, being the president, I asked to see the check because I don't see how the other 8 people could not have gotten paid for anything and she is still refusing to get it for me! Now, we're on break so I haven't been in contact with her, but even our advisor has been trying to track her and OUR check down!!

fundraisers
 

i think the worst fundraisers are the ones where you have to sell things like candy and magazines.. like with candy, over half of the chapter ends up buying thier own candy and just giving it away to people who come into thier room. that sucks because for every $1 candy bar we only make $.50. we are losing money because if each girl just donated the $1 to the chapter we would make more money.

Our best fundraiser ever was a 50/50 raffle, we bought carnival tickets for $6, we got about 3,000 tickets. We then sold each ticket for $1. The tickets were easy to sell because people love a chance and we set up a place in our student union where all the greeks hang out the day of the raffle, whomever won got half of what we raised and our charity got 15% of the rest, we made, personally for the chapter over $700. There are only 11 of us. It was a little work for a large payout.

we actually had a really good turnout for selling magazines one semester... then we tried it again and it didn't work out so well...

worst fundraiser idea... Papa Murpheys, a take and bake pizza place had these discount cards that were good for one 2 liter bottle of soda with order or an upgrade to a large from a medium and stuff. the coupons were $10 and we would get $5 profit. however, there wasn't really a Papa Murphey's nearby and most people that would try to sell to didn't own ovens (ie dorm kids). So most of our sisters ended up selling to themselves and to family. Big waste.

The Biggest bust for a fundraiser was a bake sale. We spent twice as much money on the baked goods than what we actually made.

We also held a huge party at a club, but after flyer costs, transportation costs, and the cost of the club which totaled well over 1000 we JUST broke even. And we had to charge like ten bucks to break even, so its doubtful that anyone will ever want to come ever again. People kept telling us that we were going to make a couple thousand... riiiiiiight.

We did a fundraiser at Pizzeria Uno's. We made like $75. Which is nothing, but they told us that the last two groups made like 20 each, so it may not have been too bad. You just hand out flyers for people to go there and if they bring in a flyer on the specified day then you get like 10% of their bill.

The worst fundraiser we had was when we had to sell these coupon books for $30 a piece. The books are great because they give discounts on local restaurants, bars, entertainment, etc. except many college students won't spend $30 on a coupon book. Most don't have the money and most of us are not going to bring a coupon with us to a bar downtown. We were all required to sell at least one book. Many of my sisters figured they'd sell to their parents but the problem was that the books were available for the Orlando area; most of us are not from the Orlando area. We had to place another order to get the books for our parents who live in different parts of the country. By the time my parents got their Ft.Lauderdale coupon book, many of the coupons were expired. We never did that fundraiser again.

campusfundraiser.com... it was f'n horrible... with 40 guys we made a whopping 240, and most of the subscriptions ordered where by brothers... nobody wants to pay 40 dollars for a 2-3 year subscription, and their magazines offered were horrible... don't wast your time with this one!

thanks for the heads up on campusfundraiser.com, we were gonna try that one in september but maybe not!

Just to let everyone know, I am working with an up and coming company doing candle fundrasiers, if anyone is interested send me a pm and I can give you some more information. My website should be up shortly, My organization did it and even though we didnt get rich, we made a nice small profit, for not having to shell out any money.

We sold phone cards... I ended up selling them to my parents and bought one and only asked one of my guy friends because he'd buy anything from me-- he's just nice like that. I didn't bother asking any of my friends because they wouldn't want them... we all have cell phones so I didn't see the need for them.