One of the questions we often get with people who are creating a fundraising cookbook to raise funds for a worthy cause is how many pages should my fundraising cookbook have?

One of the questions we often get with people who are creating a fundraising cookbook to raise funds for a worthy cause is how many pages should my fundraising cookbook have? Or are there are several factors that go into how much how many pages a cookbook fundraiser a fundraising cookbook should have.

The first thing to consider is the size of your community. The community becomes the source for the recipes, and also the most likely buyers for the cookbook. If you have a very small church, or daycare, the number of recipes you receive may be more limited.  however, if you are raising funds for a large church, elementary school or similar organization, with hundreds of potential recipe, contributors, you can expect more recipes in your cookbook.

However, if you are raising funds for a large church, elementary school or similar organization, with hundreds of potential recipe, contributors, you can expect more recipes in your cookbook.

The next thing that impacts the number of recipes is the price you want to charge for your cookbook? As a general rule of thumb, people are willing to pay more for a larger cookbook. If you only need to raise one or $2000, then a small cookbook can be just the thing.

At the end of the day, a fundraising cookbook can be anywhere between 25 and 250 recipes. It all depends on what your organization is capable of supporting.

CookbookFindraiser.com has a helpful fundraising cookbook profitability calculator that allows you to put in different cookbook sizes and determine how much profit you can generate from that cookbook. Give it a try.

 

Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing.

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