Last year students from Richmond Public School hosted a school fundraiser to raise money for juvenile diabetes. The fundraiser started when a student was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and her best friend wanted to find a way to help. With the schools help they ran a fundraiser and each class was allowed to dance during their gymnasium period. Even though the students have graduated, the school continues to hold the fundraiser and support the cause.

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When Langston Charter Middle School decided to hold their annual Relay for Life fundraiser, eighth-grader Bracy Black didn’t want to do the same old thing. He was tired of bake sales and door-to-door Chick-fil-A calendar and raffle ticket sales. It was time to do something new for this fundraiser.

Bracey enlisted the help of Golden Skate Park’s owner to let the school hold a Skate Night fundraising event. The owner generously is allowing the school to hold the event. Bracey likes the idea even if the kids don’t want to skate, it will be a fun place to go and hang out with out school uniforms.

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Washington Elementary School is holding school fundraisers for a new playground. The old playground had to be torn down due to safety concerns. Estimates for building a new Eagle Park playground range from $25,000 to more than $50,000 depending on how many children the playground would accommodate.

The school has begun to sell Discount Cards for $10, which provides the owner with discounts around their community while giving to the cause. Local businesses are also chipping in like the Wendy’s who will host a fundraiser twice a month where 15% of sales will go towards the cause. Good luck to ya Washington Elementary, it looks like you are well on your way to achieving your fundraising goal!

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School Fundraising is never really easy; in some instances it is backbreaking work, as we find out from Hillsborough High. You see, Hillsborough High has a unique school fundraising idea which has helped them raise $3,000 to $4,000 a year for their school’s baseball team.

Instead of bake sales, standing at a strip mall holding out empty buckets, or car washes, Hillsborough High host “Rent a Raider”. For $10 an hour, the baseball players are rented out to work odd jobs in the community. The baseball team may be seen around town raking leaves, painting fences, or even hanging Christmas lights.

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A sad story comes to us from Miami Palmetto Senior High where a thief sole $18,000 worth of computers and accessories. The worst part about the robbery was the irreplaceable data that was on the stolen computers. The school lost more than 3,000 photographs, which they were going to use for the school’s yearbook.

Now the school, along with rival schools, begins fundraising campaigns to replace some of what was lost. Some schools have lent Miami Palmetto Senior High their equipment, which will allow the seniors to continue to work on their yearbook in the meantime.

We are glad to see the community and other schools pull together to help the students whose passion is designing and working on the yearbook. It is sad to see Palmetto High having to start from scratch, but hopefully this experience will pull them closer together and help make the 2010 yearbook one they will never forget. Good luck in their school fundraising efforts!

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As with public schools, Charter schools funding has been cut this year as well and it has a lot of staff worried about next year. Some schools have already pushed off repairs, supplies, and upgrades and they have even cut their staffing to a bare minimum. If things continue the way they are, all the cuts may not be enough.

This is where fundraising has entered the picture. At Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences fundraising has stepped up. Students have been selling chocolates, school spirit shirts, and Blue and Gold sausage.

Good luck to our friends in Oklahoma and we hope you have successful fundraisers!

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After school activities are important for children and for parents. For children, it provides them with time to socialize, read, play, and get their homework done. For parents, it provides them with a daycare service until they leave work. Recently fundraising has begun to keep a Marion Boys and Girls Club open. The goal is to fundraise $79,500 in three months, which should be enough to keep the club in operation until alternative funding is found. The group hopes to achieve state funding by becoming a state-certified childcare facility.

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At Meadowdale Middle School, the annual school fundraiser, “Viking Run” raised $11,000 this year. Even in hard economic times and fewer students, communities can pull together and support their school when needed. The money raised will help the school with supplies, dances, field trips, clubs, sports, music, and other extra curricular activities. The fundraising event usually raises anywhere from $9,000 up to $14,000 with community pledges. We hope that their success continues for the years to come!

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Being a Senior at Bridges High School, Emily Gentry decided that students should be the ones to start organizing fundraisers to spruce the place up a bit and generate some school pride. The school hasn’t really offered much for student organizations, so Emily was to start a student council. The council’s focus is to help give back to the school by fundraising for a school greenhouse, field trips, and installing art around the school building. To raise the funds needed however they needed some fundraising ideas to get themselves started. Bake sales, a spaghetti dinner, and a dance were some of the ideas generated by the group. They even came up with a really unique school fundraiser, which involved rival schools; the event was a dodge ball tournament.

Talk about a fun way to raise funds!

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A new restaurant is joining in School Fundraising. Uno’s Chicago Grill is adopting the Silver Lake school district, providing the various PTOs, teams and clubs a new outlet for fundraising. Groups that host their fundraisers at the restaurant earn 20% of the gross income the restaurant takes in. Students will also earn free pizza at the restaurant by earning good grades and making the honor roll. Teachers will also receive appreciation cards for discounts.

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