| Did you know that school fund raising brings big | | | | games where they win prizes. |
| business to many companies? This is because schools | | | | Quite often school fund raising takes the form of |
| purchase the supplies they need for fund raising in | | | | selling items that people need or want to buy. Selling |
| large quantities. The company can easily give a | | | | chocolate at Easter, for example, always goes over |
| discount because they sell a lot of products at one | | | | well as a school fund raiser. Instead of purchasing |
| time. School fund raising is also becoming an important | | | | large amounts of chocolate in hopes it will sell, most |
| part of school life because it offers schools different | | | | schools take orders. The company supplying the |
| ways of fundraising the money they need for the | | | | chocolate for the fund raiser offers a discounted price |
| equipment and trips. | | | | along with specials for orders of a certain quantity. |
| Schools are constantly on the lookout for fundraising | | | | They also supply prizes if the school wishes to award |
| ideas for their next school fund raiser. They have to | | | | prizes for the person who sells the most. |
| be creative to come up with unique ideas so that | | | | Read-a-thons are a specialty for school fund raising. |
| people will attend the fund raiser and contribute to the | | | | Parents avidly support this type of school fund raiser |
| cause. Every season of the year brings school fund | | | | as it does promote a school activity while raising funds |
| raising events and some are easier for coming up with | | | | for other programs. Students really get into this type of |
| fundraising ideas than others. | | | | fund raiser as they compete with the other classes in |
| Halloween, for example, provides schools with fund | | | | the school. The principal sometimes sweetens the pot |
| raising ideas in the form of a haunted house or a | | | | by offering an incentive for the success of the fund |
| costume ball. This type of school fund raiser needs a | | | | raiser, such as offering to shave his beard or come to |
| lot of volunteers and is best for middle schools and | | | | school dressed in pyjamas. |
| high schools. An idea for an elementary school fund | | | | School fund raising is a competitive field, and needs |
| raiser for Halloween could include a Halloween party | | | | some good ideas. |
| where the children have an opportunity to take part in | | | | |