Eco-Friendly School Fundraisers
We are not even halfway through the school year and already I have been inundated with forms and catalogs from my daughter’s school for fundraisers that almost always include low-quality foods, junk, or paper products that I neither need nor want. Stuff that is designed to clog up my closets while depleting resources and inevitably filling up landfills.
Isn’t there are greener way for kids to help raise money for their school without trashing the planet? Here are some great ideas for greening your child’s next school fundraiser:
Sell Green Stuff: A number of upcoming organizations, such as Greenraising (www.greenraising.com) and Lets Go Green (www.letsgogreen.biz) now offer eco-friendly fundraising opportunities. Both offer a range of products to choose from such as SIGG water bottles, eco-friendly cleaning products, and recycled office supplies that can support and protect the eco-friendly cause while also raising some much needed green for your child’s school. Another great green option is to sell reusable grocery bags through companies such as Chico Bag (www.chicobag.com) or ReuseThisBag.com (www.reusethisbag.com). Imprint your school or club’s logo on these eco-friendly bags to show-off your school spirit.
Host A Green Event: You can raise a pot of cash for your school with a green, waste-free event such as a spaghetti dinner or pancake breakfast. Hold the event in your school’s cafeteria or your local fire hall and hit up local businesses to donate food, reusable napkins, and compostable dishes.
Pledge To Be Green: Kids can raise money and get a little exercise with a green fundraiser such as a walk-a-thon or obstacle course. Pledgers can donate cash for every lap walked or obstacle achieved. The only resource your kids will use is their own boundless energy!
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I hate, hate, hate all the junk from China they have kids peddle. But I love the idea of those grocery bags. What a practical purchase! I might have to bring this up at a PTO meeting. Thanks.
Mother Earth Fundraising (www.motherearthfundraising.com) is another great alternative for schools and non-profits. Their tagline is clever… ‘Raising Money Responsibly’.
visit http://www.growkids.org Growkids is an eco-friendly fundraising company which offers exclusive products that serve an environmental purpose. Our product line includes; garden, gift, kids, living, pets and spa…..We will be offering 100% recycled gift wrap in the fall. 50% of the proceeds goes to your school/organization. A tree is planted for each participant.
I would check out two great green fundraising programs offered by Save Your World, LLC. This company sponsors two unique programs that enable any approved school or charitable organization to earn money for its goals, while also supporting its conservation mission to save areas of rainforest. For more information, go to: http://store.saveyourworld.com/category-s/27.htm
They are also sponsoring an Amazon walk, which would be a great topic for a special science unit on the rainforest. It would a unique learning experience for classes to start communicating with British explorer Ed Stafford when school starts. They can track his progress in the jungle throughout the year. Children can also ask him questions and he can tell them about his most recent adventures in the Amazon rainforest. To learn more about this extraordinary journey, see: http://store.saveyourworld.com/Walking-the-Amazon-s/1155.htm
These are just some ideas on how to make green fundraising more meaningful, productive, and fun for parents and children alike.
I wrote a post on my site of a bunch of eco-fundraisers, which some we use at my own children schools. Some fundraisers you just get money for collecting “stuff” and others you are selling eco-friendly products. As new fundraisers are created, people are adding to my list.
Don’t forget us! Read “Our Story” on our homepage. You’ll understand why we do what we do to help you!
http://www.ecolabelfundraising.com
I work for Divine Chocolate, a farmer-owned, Fair Trade chocolate company. Divine Chocolate offers a Fair Trade chocolate fundraiser for schools and nonprofits as well! Learn more at http://www.divinechocolateusa.com/be-divine.
Koru Fundraising – http://www.korufundraising.com goes the whole nine yards!
Eco friendly, non toxic, organic, fair trade products!
Koru Donates 1% to environmental charities!
Environmental videos and lesson plans!
Everything is under $20 and only four price points! $5,10,15,20
What you’ve been waiting for! BE the Change!
When you promote your cause with an earth friendly product, your supporters will find the experience even more gratifying. With one contribution, they make two positive impacts on the world.
We offer beautiful evergreen tree seedlings for fundraisers. Please visit us at http://www.givetreegifts.com/fundraising_products.
Hi Readers!
Check out HTTP://WWW.KORUFUNDRAISING.COM for many novel eco-friendly, fair trade and non toxic products and programs!
Go Green Fundraising has a number of green fundraising programs like flower bulbs, reusable shopping bags, trees, healthy foods, Smencils and more.
Check it out at Go Green Fundraising
Here is a great eco-friendly fundraiser for any group:
http://www.ufseeds.com/Fundraiser_6bd03f7587d774161abf9.html
Thanks,
Tim
Earth Care Fundraisers is conscientious fundraising. They offer environmentally friendly products on the website for schools and other non profits to raise much needed funds through AND donate funds to other non profits that are doing great work trying to save our planet. Awesome products and great customer service.
Save the world yo.
Hi Earth-friendly Fundraisers!
Check out Equal Exchange Fundraising (www.equalexchange.coop/fundraiser): featuring organic & fairly traded coffees, teas, cocoas, chocolates, healthy snacks, as well as 100% tree-free gift wrap and handmade gifts for the home from Ten Thousand Villages.
A socially & environmentally-responsible business too!
is priced right currently.
Great ideas for green fundraising!
Great ideas for green fundraising!!!!!
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I actually just started a business because of that very reason. Absolutely sick and tired of selling stuff for my 4 kids which I end up buying most of and didn’t want them going door to door selling and my husband really didn’t want to bug his co-workers to buy stuff from him. We came up with the idea for an all online business and it is a fun questionnaire for kids to do at school or even with their parents supervision. The kids make new friends in their school based on their answers. The school sells the results during lunch to the students and they make a 70%-90% profit and it will never cost the parents more than $2-3. That is it. It is a win-win situation.
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