What are these fundraisers?

[MonkeyMama]

Understood. If local enforcement is happening, I totally understand.

I'm curious what types of fundraisers are common in your area? We're always looking for new ideas.

The main fundraisers we are involved with in with our kids' public school, and my eldest did do a non-profit soccer group. In both cases they were not interested in selling things and the focus is more trying to sell or raffle off donated goods. (Which I don't think is more common as a whole, but I appreciate that our neighborhood is more focused on getting funds directly to the organizations and cutting out the middle men).

Fireworks are also really big in our city and I gathered was how the sports teams raise most their funds. Our school eventually started doing this too. The nonprofits provide volunteers to man the booths and get a cut of the sales.

We have a couple of annual festivals where parents provide food, prizes and volunteer time.

Silent auctions and raffles for donated items. We've won a couple of these where the highest bidders had their teacher take them out to the bowling or to the movies (my kids LOVE these). Raffle baskets are big too (generally each classroom provides a basket). Though over time they seem to do those more by auction than raffle.

Reminds me there is often Parents Night Out, where teachers provide babysitting in exchange for like $20 per kid. All proceeds go to the school.

Crab feeds and Spaghetti Feeds (food is donated and proceeds go to charity).

[bjl584]

50/50 raffles are HUGE where I live.

Even the Pittsburgh Pirates have one at every home game. The pot gets rather large as you would image, especially when the game is a sellout.

Pretty much every fund raiser that you go to around here has a 50/50 raffle as part of the event.

[MickeyMickey1975]

Must be an east coast thing. I lived in four cities in two Midwestern states and never heard of them. We only moved to our east coast state this June, these 50/50 fundraisers were at nearly all football games we went to. It took me awhile to even understand how it worked, since not all the school explained what it really was. Just assumed everyone knew. That is the one thing that stinks about moving...the local customs that everyone assumes everyone already knows about.

Weird, I live in Iowa and there are 50/50 fundraisers at every charity function and benefit for accident victims, cancer patient, etc

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

So today the same organization has sent an email about the next fundraiser/ trivia game night at which there will be a "lottery tree raffle." Huh?

I googled that phrase and found a Pinterest picture of a tall, skinny cone with public lottery tickets attached to it, like a stylized spruce tree.

Maybe I've got to get out more.

[creditcardfree]

I must not get out enough either! I haven't heard of that one.

[disneysteve]

So today the same organization has sent an email about the next fundraiser/ trivia game night at which there will be a "lottery tree raffle." Huh?

I googled that phrase and found a Pinterest picture of a tall, skinny cone with public lottery tickets attached to it, like a stylized spruce tree.

Maybe I've got to get out more.

We were at a fundraising event last night. One of the Chinese auction prizes was a lottery ticket tree. Didn't win, though. Didn't win anything actually.