A majority of this school year has been dedicated to raising money for our Best Buddy trip to Disneyland. A few of my co-workers and I had tossed around the idea of taking this trip, and low and behold, we made it happen.
Fundraising. What a pain in the !@#$#$# it is! I made a lot of mistakes a long the way, but learned a lot of lessons. Lesson #1: Start early. Lesson #2: Enlist help from others.
We started with suckers. Lots and lots of suckers. We sold them for $1 each, which was about a 90% profit. Not bad. I made nearly 1800 suckers and my students sold them during lunches.
We moved on to a bake sale. Not as profitable, but brought us a couple hundred.
We tried Rubios. Got a wopping $57 from them. Lame
We held a car wash with Firehouse Car Wash. We ended up with nearly $500 from that.
Our last attempt was working to sell Mrs. Cavanaughs chocolates. We were able to sell enough to make nearly $2000.
With our fundraising and some generous donations, we were able to take our trip. Every one of our buddies (students with disabilities) had their trip completely paid for. I was very proud. The students had a wonderful trip and it was so much fun. It was definitely worth all of the time I spent making those damn suckers.
