I'm sorry I had to leave so fast. My mom was having a field day on the other end of the phone, screaming at me to get home. >.<
I would have liked to stay and help you out I know it's a huge hassle with yard sales.
As for fundraising, I made fliers to stick in mail slots in my neighborhood for a bottle drive! I made about 80 fliers and figure it could at least get some more cash flow. Maybe another $80-$100. This might be something small, but something we could possibly all do.
For the bake sales, I contacted my school in hopes of having one there in the main rotunda. Now just to hear back from them.. It will most likely not be until the beginning of the fall semester, so we should have other ideas on how to raise money.
A car wash doesn't require much set up. Just soap, rags, and contacting a gas station in which we could hold it. For that we would need a lot more volunteers.
At the yard/bake sale, I was thinking of a bowling or pub night. For that is really easy, you don't need many volunteers, and it's a lot of fun!
For bowling it would be $25/person and that would get them shoe rentals, 2 - 3 games of bowling (one of which can be fun bowling. ie. bowling with oven mitts on), and a beverage. We would have to contact a bowling ally who would be able to donate some of their time for this (Like a cheep rate) and then set up fliers (online and on community boards). And then Sorelle has those awesome bowling trophies!
The pub night might actually be the most reasonable. Pubs are very generous with fundraisers. I have seen many fundraisers at the pub by my house. They all pay between $20-$25/person and they get an alcoholic beverage and food. Most likely a burger from their burger menu. (They have a veggie burger!) Then there's a 50/50 draw you're entered in for coming for a prize. Not money really, but more like an item. Like say, 10 free movie passes. (My mom gets those for dirt cheep at her work.)
I guess brainstorming about other prizes would be a good idea. Anyone with contacts to a company in which they can donate some goods or services would be ideal.
Tina :headflick: