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Church Fundraiser

Home baked cakes and goodies for sale, dunking booths and cookbooks full of the best home-cooking recipes are all representative of what a church fundraiser is normally brings to mind.

Churches operate on limited budgets that are based on members' tithes. When items outside of the budget are needed or wanted, such as youth group outings or new hymnals, the groups involved normally try to raise their own funds. This is how the church fundraiser came to be.

These fundraisers have not changed much over the years. Churches still rely on their members to volunteer to bake their specialties and donate them to bake sales and cakewalks.

Often, the church will combine several fundraisers into one day of fun activities that is designed to raise money. They will set up a hot dog sale and bake sale that corresponds with a yard sale and arts and crafts sale. Often, they will add a dunking booth for fun and sell tickets to this for an added fundraising tool.

Churches often organize carwashes on Saturday mornings that are designed to raise money. If the church group spreads the word throughout the community in advance of the carwash and reminds the church the week that it is occurring, the carwash can be a successful way to raise funds.

Church youth groups are also known for having doughnut sales. Krispy Kreme is the number one name in doughnut fundraising and provides fresh, hot doughnuts at a designated pick-up time. The group usually sets up in one or more retail locations and the doughnuts are often gone very quickly due to being able to catch the retail traffic that comes in and out of the shops. The church fundraiser can also include catalog product sales such as those offered by Fun Pasta. With this project, the group members circulate the pasta catalogs among friends and family and take their orders. The product is a household product used by nearly all families and will sell easily.

Fun Pasta adds another aspect to the fundraiser through the use of technology. Members receive and email template that can be customized to their fundraiser. Members then send this out to their email contacts. The email contains not only an electronic version of the catalog but also a link to the Fun Pasta website where they can place orders.

Fun Pasta makes it possible to have a church fundraiser that takes the burden off the church members who are constantly baking, cooking and creating for the typical fundraiser sale. Group leaders can oversee the project through the Fun Pasta website where they can keep up with sales and profit as well as track their customers.

Churches can also utilize technology by putting together a church cookbook fundraiser. These are immensely popular not only in the church but in the community as well. Church members submit as many recipes as they want to share and the fundraising company puts the cookbook together in an attractively bound book that the church can then sale.

Church cookbook sales can be either pre-order sales that insure the church doesn't wind up with extra cookbooks that it can't use or the church can order as many as they think they can sale. The downside to this is that the cookbooks can't be sent back.

The church fundraiser is a part of most communities' history. Often, the fundraiser turns into a social event that brings the people of the community together as they raise money for a worthwhile event. Church fundraisers are an important function that allows church groups to do more together without being a financial burden on individual budgets.