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Fundraiser
Group Size: all church
Ages: all church
When or where to use activity: ideal in the Fall for holiday shopping.. Materials needed: Family Pastimes website will give all necessary information: http://www.familypastimes.com/
Description: We held a very successful funraiser, selling Family Pastimes Co-operative games. The congregation loved being able to buy Christmas presents for their children, grandchildren, and schools that reflected our values. These games are based on many of our principles; caring for the earth, community, respect for others, etc. The company offers a 50% profit to fundraisers, and the games are very reasonably priced. And the children love to play them!
(Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 18:01:24 (EDT))
Book Donation plan:
At the end of the year I ask parents (and anyone else) to contribute to a
book fund to honor teachers. From the money collected, I buy books for our
library in honor of the teachers. We put a name plate in each book. Parents
like this idea and so do teachers.
My book fair experience has been through Chinaberry. We plan for thepurchases
to arrive by Christmas, and you have to get the ball rolling(by contacting
them and providing the needed info.) at least a couple of months in advance.
Advantages:
1. You only get the books/materials you ordered, so you don't have to ship
back any extras.
2. Customers don't have to pay for shipping and handling, so regular Chinaberry
customers can save themselves some money by ordering from you.
3. There is a rebate-- you make a little money if your sales surpass $200
Disadvantages:
1. Orders are through the catalog-- people don't get to check out the materials
themselves before purchase, but the Chinaberry catalog is very thorough and
inviting.
2. If books that have been ordered aren't in stock; you'll need to call
Chinaberry back later and/or issue a refund to your customer.
Chinaberry has a book fair information packet, Details are printed in the
catalog. They do a wonderful job of organizing the whole thing from their
end. Chinaberry has wonderful selections, and I feel it's a pleasure
to support them. When you place your order, the whole process goes more quickly
if you can put the tab on a credit card. Otherwise, you need to collect the
money from the individual customers, make out one check to cover the total,
and wait till yourcheck has arrived at Chinaberry before they can send out
your order.
When we've been organized enough, we've asked one of the church school classes
to serve the church by helping put together the individual orders. The shipment
arrives in several large boxes, and orders aren't packaged together.
