It’s that time of year again! Spring is well on its way to being here - in many parts of the country the last frost is already past, so we need to start thinking about our flowerbeds! This means it’s also time for another plug for the Art in Nature fundraiser.

This terrific ‘no minimum order’ brochure style fundraiser with a huge variety of seasonal flowering bulbs appropriate for any home or garden. You can offer supporters of your organization the chance to fill those flowerbeds and beautify their surroundings with a catalog selection 24 beautiful flowering bulbs - and every single one is guaranteed to grow and bloom.

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A great way to help the environment and boost your group’s income for the year is by getting innovative with natural products and educating your local community about how to clean green! Many people have dozens of cleaning products in their home that may do a great job of cleaning, but have some bad side effects. They can harm the environment either while being used (as with many aerosol products) or else wash into the water table and cause harmful agents to be released.

A great way to raise awareness is by selling natural, homemade cleaning products!  The ingredients are cheap, and many can be found at your local grocery. Check out your local dollar stores for oversized salt shakers with large holes and plenty of plastic spray bottles (don’t forget peel and stick labels!) Grab some simple plastic buckets - clearance Easter baskets and cheap sand buckets work great. If you can convince the stores to donate the items, even better!

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The end of the school year means tests, tests and more tests!  Your organization can cash in on the need for alertness and get a message out about staying green. All it takes is a little imagination, and you can make test taking a snap for this kids in your community!

This project does require a small investment to get up and running, but these little brain enhancers work like a charm and sell like hotcakes. With a profit of 50%, you can turn a $250 investment into $500 in no time.

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The next time you need to raise money for a good cause, think about making it a green cause as well!  People love to help out when there is a chance to have a positive effect on the planet. With that in mind, what about raffle where the prize is a bundle of eco friendly products!

You can usually hit up manufacturers of green products for freebies, so stocking one or more huge baskets of green fun shouldn’t be hard. Hit up your local businesses to help sell raffle tickets for you, as well as spreading the word through the community via church or school.

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Brochure fundraising is an eco-friendly way to manage shipping and packaging impact on the environment. With Go-Green products, the benefits are increased even more!

The new Go-Green earth friendly brochure fundraiser focuses on four product lines for eleven choices for your church or organization to sell. With prices ranging from only $6.50 to $12.50, the profit margin is a generous 40%.
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Are you wanting a go-green fundraiser for your school that sells like hotcakes, is inexpensive and showcases your school team?

Customized plastic tumblers are a great way to promote school spirit, and make the perfect fundraiser to add to game night. You can customize the sturdy plastic tumblers with the school name and mascot, and sell for a 40% profit at games and other school events. If you can get a local supplier to donate the cola and ice, you can throw in the initial fill up for free, and offer cheap refills.
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Nature in Bloom’s flower bulb fundraisers offer a wonderful way to help Mother Nature stay happy by replanting gardens or starting new ones. Most people would agree you can’t get much greener than that - and will, when you present them with this great fundraising idea.

Planting or replanting a garden on a yearly basis helps the biological cycle of things, balancing the effect humans have on the earth. Nature in Bloom bulbs are a great fundraiser item you can use to encourage your entire community to give a little back to Mother Earth.

The profit threshold runs anywhere from 40 to 45%, which lower than some other projects but offset by the fact that there is no minimum order, shipping is free and most of the items are priced at an extremely reasonable $6 to $23. The brochures are attractive and uplifting, and with a little sharp salesmanship whole neighborhoods can often be convinced to ‘green things up’ a bit.

A great way to boost sales is to offer the services of your fundraising team to plant the bulbs upon delivery - this will ensure that they are utilized after purchase and encourage higher sales in the years to come as well!

dollars and up to a little over ten dollars per bulb.

This fundraiser will go over well in the very early spring when last frost is past. A bonus for many groups is the relative ease with which the bulbs sell and the fact that high volume orders can result in bonus bulbs being included for free. This extra product can be sold to maximize profits or used to enhance the beauty of the church, school or organization headquarters!

Don’t forget to educate younger fundraising members on the ecological benefits of gardens; they will impress would be customers with their knowledge and the bulbs should sell with ease.

Replacing ordinary products with ones made from renewable resources is a large part of what being green is all about. Aromalight Candles are made up of soybean oil which comes from (you guessed it) soybeans. And soybeans are (right again) a renewable resource!

Fundraisers that sell things people actually use are rapidly becoming more popular, as the knick knack and overpriced wrapping paper circuit is wearing thin. Products people actually use that are also eco-friendly are even more popular!

Aromalight Candles out-perform the standard paraffin or animal by-product candles most stores sell both in burning time and superlative scent, and are healthier to burn around your family. They are even better than beeswax, the other natural alternative, burning cleaner and lasting twice as long.

Using candles as a fundraising product always has a great response, and the triple scented soy candles from Aromalight have a reputation already for being the best candles around. Many fundraisers when starting their pitch will be cut short by a ready to order customer - just on the strength of the brand.

Most of the candles sell for $10 to $15 each - and around the holidays you can offer the pricier multi-candle packages that are highly in demand for gift giving. Each sale nets your organization 50% of the sale price. Since you don’t have to pay up front for the product, you can concentrate on selling as many as possible in any combination without a quota hanging over your head.

Even a group of just 30 people selling ten candles apiece will meet the free shipping minimum of 300 items, and with a profit margin of $5 to $7.50 it is possible to raise $1500 to $2250 per campaign. Larger groups can make even bigger profits! Three quarters of the country’s population buys candles on a regular basis, so let them know they can indulge their candle passion and go green at the same time!

There are two types of fundraisers that are the best. These are the ones that sell products that:

(A) everyone can use and

(B)don’t waste resources, promoting products that help the environment.

Can you imagine running a fundraiser that qualified on both levels?

Smencils are made up of recycled newspapers. They are-non toxic colored pencils made of old newsprint with a graphite core, and come in ten different scents. The grape, watermelon, cinnamon and other fragrances used are ecologically safe and the erasers are biodegradable, making this product as green as it gets.

Kids love Smencils, teachers love Smencils, parents love Smencils! These incredible products practically sell themselves, and make any group an easy profit with their flat 50% profitability. The recyclable buckets hold 50 Smencils each (five of each ‘flavor’), and a minimum order is a case of ten buckets. Most families can easily sell one or two buckets.

With the dual emphasis on education and earth friendliness, Smencils are the perfect choice for any fundraising group. The reasonable one case minimum makes it perfect for lower budget organizations, and the quick shipping allows for spur of the moment repeat orders if necessary. The ‘double your money’ return is an attractive profit margin, and the Smencils themselves sell well.

The best way to maximize profitability is to repackage the Smencils for sale in an eco friendly way. Use recycled, hand decorated paper to band groups of ten that include one pencil of each color, and get people to go for whole set! That’s only ten $10 sales per bucket, which is doable for most fundraisers as well as potential customers.

Smencils are fun, they are useful, and they sell like hotcakes. Consider using Smencils for your next fundraiser!

Wow! It seems by the positive responses we received that our eco-friendly series of articles about raising money with the three R’s was a success. We clearly understood that we needed to explore a little bit more about how to raise money with the eco-mantra: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle. Let’s kick it today with another easy to organize, fun to do and green to go fundraiser idea. This time, let’s see what we can come up with the third R: Recycle.

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