Why are chocolate candy fundraisers so powerful?
Candy bar fundraisers are always popular and help raise a lot of money because candy is so well-liked.
As humans, we’re wired to like things that are sweet because sugar fuels our brains.
Despite our dentist’s warnings, everyone wants it. And everyone eats it. Some people can’t get enough. Sweet tooths (teeth?) abound. Diabetics and weight watchers can partake of the sugarless varieties.
Candy fundraisers for schools are often annual events, like the Katydids fundraiser often is, but even small groups do well with this kind of activity because you don’t need many volunteers to sell candy bars for fundraisers successfully.
Candy fundraisers for individuals?
Candy has high profit margins and is fairly cheap for you and your customers, which is one reason why these fundraisers work so well for fundraising groups of any size – even for individuals.
Most of us have purchased over-priced products from fundraisers, but we don’t mind paying a little extra for candy if we’re only spending a buck or two and especially if we know that we’re helping a worthy cause. And candy works well for all types of fundraising groups, in both affluent and less affluent communities.
Kids and candy bar fundraisers for schools
Kids are great salespeople for fundraising products in general, but perhaps more so with candy, which is probably why school candy fundraisers occur every year.
As long as an adult accompanies them, kids can sell door-to-door to the neighbors, or they can get on the phone to their relatives and friends. Parents can help by selling to their coworkers.
But don’t stop there. To make the best of your money raising efforts, talk to local businesses, call out-of-state relatives, ask a local grocery store to set up a booth, and search for buyers everywhere you can. Potential customers are plentiful.
Candy fundraisers for churches too
Try to get as many volunteers as possible too. Obviously, the more volunteers you have soliciting donations and sales, the more money your group will raise, which is why this fundraiser is ideal for both churches and schools, given the large pool of potential supporters.
Where to get candy for fundraisers
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What others say…
Raising Money with Band Candy
Several years back my daughter took part in a candy fundraiser for her middle school band. They were already working hard to raise money for their annual band field trip, when the teacher issued a challenge to see who could raise the most. My daughter made the usual rounds to the local stores, factories, and warehouses. Then she took her fundraiser on the road to a major flea market/swap meet which happens every month.
She set up a booth and even managed to bribe her younger brother to help wave hand painted signs. The public response was wonderful! When the event was coming to a close (and she was down to only one more box)she took the rest of the candy around to the vendors who bought every one she had left! After all her time and effort, she raised $218.00 for her band… and a dinner at her favorite restaurant from her very proud parents!
Candy bars are an easy sell!
My 15 year old son attends a small Charter school. They needed an easy fund raiser and my husband suggested something simple like $1 candy bars after previous fundraiser items that were hard to sell. The kids were raising money for some expensive upcoming field trips.
The school contacted Fundraising.com for the candy. They profit is 40 – 50% per candy bar sold. We found it is much easier to sell some one 5 – $1 candy bars than a $5 box of candy. Everyone loves candy bars! Besides who can say no to spending only a dollar???
The kids knew these field trips were expensive and they all had a goal of how much candy they needed to sell to have part of the trips paid for.
The kids got permission to set up tables to sell the candy bars outside of local grocery stores and shopping centers.
The kids took the candy with them everywhere! They took it to schools sporting events , church and the youth recreation center. We also actually had great success setting up boxes for sale in local businesses and a few factory break rooms. People on a break love a treat!
The candy was a really easy fundraiser for the kids and the parents. The 30 kids raised $1800! Pretty great!!!!!
Bars to Dollars
I’ve been doing fundraising for over twenty years for churches, youth groups, and athletic teams, and one product that seems to work well is candy. Usually, the name brand bars of candy work best, because people usually know the taste already.
The profits seem to work out well and the participants really don’t have to put much effort into the sales pitch. Young and old can raise quick cash selling these candy bars, in less than two weeks. This is how we turned a quick profit for a Girl Scout troop.
Our troop was a small group of girls that did not do very well during the annual cookie sale. One of the reasons was there were so many more troops in Newark and the surrounding areas, and Irvington is a small town with employees leaving the town, the cookies that were brought, were sold to the residents outside the community. This posed a problem for the girls, who depended on the money to attend a weekend of fun at camp. The troop leader and parents tried to come up with ways to raise the needed $600 for the 10 girls but could not come up with any feasible ideas.
My coworker has a girl in this troop and she was telling me the story and I suggested selling candy bars, mixed choices, and even agreed to help. I set them up with a company that gave you 30 days to pay and the cases were there by the end of the week.
I took a case to work, set it in the break room, with a locked money box and watched those bars disappear by days end (there are 1400 people employed at my job). Each day, I took on another box, each time a different assortment, to find them gone by the end of the day. The profit from each box was $40 per case.
Within two weeks, the troop had the money, with enough left over to take the girls on another trip the leader had desired for the girls. She took them to New York to see a Broadway show (of course the tickets were discounted $15 per person). The girls loved it.
So to make a quick profit, try the candy bar sales, they really work.
