The students of Edmonton-area school using their Valentine’s Day fundraiser to help those in Haiti devastated by the recent earthquakes in their area. The students were originally going to be exchanging candy grams, but due to a recent change brought on by the students the fundraiser has been changed to Hearts for Haiti.

Starting today (1/20) students will be selling hearts for $1 where the buyer can write a message on it and it will hang in the school’s gymnasium. All the money collected will be donated to the Red Cross for the relief fund for Haiti.

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Many of us are familiar with “Night at the Museum” movies. When it came time for the annual fundraising event at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, they decided to hold an event where people could visit the museum and watch some of the displays come to life as they have watched in the movie.

The museum enlisted the help of the local high school theatre students who helped pull off a successful night of fundraising. Over a thousand people attended the event which raised more than $20,000!

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Bishop Savaryn Elementary School had great success on their unique school fundraising idea. The school, inspired by their 6th grade student Julian Alex, decided to create and sell Braille Christmas Cards for $1 each.

Julian is unable to see through the center of his eyes making it impossible to read print. He was initially the only one at the school learning Braille, but soon other students and friends followed his footsteps. Currently there is a whole Braille club at the school.

After the Braille club visited the City Hall School, they were introduced to the Youth Emergency Shelter and immediately wanted to help. The school started out with a goal of 200 Braille Christmas Cards and in the end doubled their initial goal!

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Summit High School has seen its share of budget cut backs. As with all schools, they needed to find a new source of income for some of their teams. The debate team needed to rise nearly $1,000 for their travel expenses.

This year the school decided to hold a different kind of fundraiser, they held a holiday carnival for families. The carnival had face painting, cookie decorating, ornament making, and cup cake races. The debate team was allowed to decorate the school’s commons for the event.

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In Columbus Ohio a Christian school decided to run a cookie dough fundraiser where the students and staff would make the cookies instead of using pre-made dough. With a lot of planning and participation the fundraiser was a great success, cashing in at a total of $15,103.

The students took orders for cookies near the end of October and then took turns in the school’s kitchen baking the cookies the week of Thanksgiving. After all 29,434 cookies were made and assembled onto their respective trays, they were delivered.

A homemade cookie dough fundraiser is a great idea and yields high profit, but only if you have the time to do it. If you do not have the time, you could always use one of our cookie dough fundraisers where all you do is sell and distribute!

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Elementary Schools around Gallatin Valley in Montana participated in the 2009 From Farms to Schools Fundraising Program. This program helps the school’s fundraise, as well as supports local farmers, by selling produce generated by the farms ranging from squash to corn.

The fundraising program this year generated $37,700 in sales, 40% of which goes to the schools. The sixth graders from Gallatin Gateway School will be using the funds for their trip to Yellow Stone State Park, and the eight graders will be using the funds for their Washington D.C. field trip.

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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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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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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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Bucyrus has provided us with two basketball fundraising ideas. The first one involves Alumni from the school. The pickup game cost $25 per player but will include a T-shirt and a free pizza at a local Pizza Sports Shack.

The second basketball fundraising idea involves a Foundation game. Bucyrus High School will host a $5 spaghetti dinner before the game as well as a 50/50 raffle, half-time shooting contest, and a bake sale.