Our fund raising customers have requested a fresher, easier look to our fund raising site, CookbookFundraiser.com - and now it's officially ready! A much cleaner design allows for easier adding of recipes, editing your cookbook and getting through the editorial process. Enjoy!
One of our fundraiser cookbooks from CookbookFundraiser.com has hit the news with their success!
"We are so thrilled with the outcome of our cookbook project. Originally I had thought that we would do the printing of our school cookbook in a traditional way, as I have more than two dozen years in publication production. Another PTA mom suggested finding an online vendor, and after searching the possibilities, I found your site to be the most user friendly and cost-effective solution.
"What we liked most was the ease in allowing folks to enter their recipes directly online. From there, we could go in and edit the entered data to be consistent. And at the time of completion, I could go in and manipulate the recipes to fit the pages, making the most of space and economics! You give so many options.
"The printed project turned out beautifully! Our custom photographs, including the cover, turned out awesome - a real selling point. We got unexpected benefits from extensive media coverage, boosting sales and necessitating a reprint within only a couple of months of our original printing - be sure to order enough up front - the final product has been in serious demand. We made more than $1,500 from our first printing, and expect even more from the 2nd printing. Thank you, CookbookFundraiser!"
- Cheryl Madden Brown, McKee Elementary School PTA, Oakdale, PA
Here is the link to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article Fresh Find: McKee Elementary School Recipe Collection
Way to go McKee!
Deane Brengle writes in Fundraising for Small Groups Newsletter the benefits of creating a cookbook as a fundraiser.
He says: Cookbooks have been popular fundraisers for years. They started out with church and women's groups and have now spread like wildfire. It's because they can be produced by almost any size group, club, team, or nonprofit organization. Much of the increased popularity can be attributed to the use of the internet by cookbook publishing companies and the ease of producing a cookbook online.
Despite the spread of cookbook fundraisers, they remain a good source of fundraising income.
* A custom cookbook is unique to your group.
* They aren't overly difficult to produce.
* With the right marketing they sell well.
* They have a long shelf life and can be sold year round.
* They are a popular gift item around the holidays.
He also writes: I've spent some time and researched all the publishers offering cookbook fundraising programs and I'm recommending Cookbookfundraiser.com for all your group's cookbook fundraising needs.
They offer an easy to use online format for entering all your recipes and step by step instructions for creating your cookbook. They even offer a free sample cookbook so you can see what a finish product will look like and an online calculator to help you figure your cookbooks cost.
(NAPSI)-Picture this: Raising funds can be easier than you imagine if you follow a few tips. Here's some new school fundraising ideas and creative tips that are sugar-free and don't require door-to-door sales.
1. Turn existing purchases into a fundraiser
Picateers is a company that turns school Picture Day into a fundraiser. Parents spend $2 billion on school pictures every year--and virtually none of that money goes to the schools. Picateers is changing that. Picateers gives 50 percent of every dollar spent on portraits back to schools. Picateers is able to give cash back because they train a volunteer mom to take the pictures. She snaps the pictures with her digital SLR camera and Picateers does the rest. It's minimal effort--an elementary school can raise thousands with only two volunteers for a day. Parents love it because they can help their school by simply purchasing their child's pictures.
2. Get healthy with a Walk-a-thon
With a Walk-a-thon, children have a blast walking to raise money for their school. It's easy to set up. Children bring home sponsor sheets for parents and family members to pledge either a fixed donation or one that depends on the distance the child walks. Children feel a sense of accomplishment in completing the Walk-a-thon to help their school.
3. Try a fundraiser that delivers all year
eScrip is a company that works with retailers like clothing, electronics and grocery stores to give a percentage of parents' purchases back to schools. This fundraiser requires minimal effort. A coordinator at a school sends home a sheet for parents to complete, registering their credit and debit cards. Then, when parents shop at participating merchants or buy products on the eScrip Web site using their registered cards, their school earns money throughout the year.
4. Focus on learning
A great fundraiser that supports learning is a Read-a-thon. Typically, parents and family members pledge either a fixed donation or a flexible donation depending on the number of minutes the students read during a two-week period.
Children bring home pledge sheets and start reading. A way to make it even more fun is to ask local merchants to donate prizes for the students who read the most or have a special prize for the entire class that reads the most.
These easy school fundraising ideas mean no more staying up late to bake for bake sales or bothering your neighbors for donations. They can put the "fun" back into fundraising and provide a great return for your school.
Fundraising can be a snap if parent volunteers use digital cameras to capture images for school picture day.
This posting is sponsored by the CookbookFundraiser.com which helps schools, churches, community groups and other groups create community cookbooks that are easy to make and earn money for your organization.
If you are looking for a great way to raise money for your Boy Scout Troop, consider starting a family cookbook. After all, a scout troop often becomes like an extended family to the boy and their adult leaders.
The Family Cookbook Project is a great way to create a cookbook for a Boy Scout troop or any group.
Cincinnati.Com writes an interesting article, Brossart cooking up book to help football team, about a football booster club that uses a family cookbook to raise money for its footbal team. The article talks about the group being one big family, so a family cookbook was an easy choice.
Cookbooks are great fundraising opportunities. They can involve a large number of people and if you use a website like www.familycookbookproject.com to manage the project, it will be easy to collect, organize and print your fundraising cookbook, resulting is money to be used for the greater good.