How To Raise Money For Boy Scouts

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This post is part of the "Inquire a Leader Advice" series. I get many leaders writing me request me questions and help every month. This post will reply your question with tips and suggestions from my perspective and often the perspective of other leaders who have shared with me how they have washed things with their troop. I also encourage you to add together your advice in the comments below if you lot take experience with the question.

LEADER'S QUESTION: "How to Raise Money To Travel With Your Troop?"

Advice from one leader to another….

This is i question I go asked oft is "How to raise money to travel with my Girl Scout troop?" If you know my back story y'all know I was a leader for xiv years and a Daughter Picket myself for 12 and for all those years I was involved with a multi-level troop. So I have had the opportunity to effort many different fundraising ideas non only for travel merely to earn money to employ for the big awards or to donate things for service projects.

Before I leap in, I will starting time by saying fundraisers are a touchy subject with Girl Scouts, and every bit we all know each council handles them differently. So before pursuing any of the post-obit ideas please check with your council. I am basing my ideas on what I know my council allowed.

Yard Sale – Depending on your Girls ages a One thousand sale is a lot of work but can bring in a lot of profit, and when your girls are done donate whats left to another organization who wants to have a yard sale.
Car wash – If you cull the correct location you tin can bring in a adept profit from this type of fundraiser. If you wanted to add a bake sale and sell water at the motorcar wash as well people can snack while they look for their cars.
Cookies in a jar during the holiday season – These were a big seller – the girls sold them up front before making them and so got together and purchased the material and put together the orders.
Collecting Cans, Old Ink, or Cell phones – Believe it or non after 3 months of collecting, putting signs up in local businesses to get old ink and jail cell phones, and request all the troops in service unit to collect cans my girls earned over $200 dollars toward their statuary laurels. Later on collecting all the cans we took the girls to a recycling facility they got to take a bout and drop off their cans for recycling. For the ink we used a company called empty4cash – click here to learn more
Host a Domestic dog Launder –This is a unique fun mode to earn some cash. Y'all can bring canis familiaris treats to give pets later wash. Mayhap besides include special deals for families with more than than i pet.
Host a Community Meal – You tin can become every Girl Sentinel level involved in this and can fifty-fifty work toward their cooking badge while earning money. Ideas are to accept a chili cook-offs, spaghetti supper or pancake breakfasts. You could as well consider trying a unique meal if you accept parents with cooking skills endeavour a new cooking hazard such as Chinese or traditional Bolivian cuisine.

Few other helpful tips for fundraising that I have shared on the web log in past:

A great fundraiser to exercise is a Hoagie Sale. Click here to read more than near how to stay organized and earn money for the large trips yous want to take with your girls
Brand more money with the annual Girl Sentry Cookie sales by trying a unlike way to run cookie booths. Click hither for ideas on how to run a cookie marathon berth.

I personally do non accept all the answers on how to earn enough money to keep bigger trips with your girls and so I asked some other leader, this is one response from a leader named Pamela Fleming who has a troop of girls who have been together since kindergarten she shared with me her story of how her girls who are now in tenth grade have went on a number of trips and program to go on a even bigger i this summertime.

Pamela writes…. "My girls accept been together since kindergarten. This year they are all in 10th grade. It is sometimes difficult to keep them interested in scouting. For my girls, I accept found that travel is the best way to continue them engaged.

In 2015, nosotros visited Savannah for six days. This July, we are going to London and Paris and including a visit to Pax Lodge and Disneyland Paris.

How are we paying for this travel?

Commencement, we participate in the Fall Product Sale and of form cookie sales. However, that is not enough. I do not want to burden the parents with a lot of bills for travel. Therefore, we hold Girl Spotter Par-Teas . We do them in March and call it a Girl Sentinel Birthday Par-Tea and practise some other one in the autumn and call it a Founders Day Par-Tea.

Nosotros have food, crafts, and table games. We likewise offer portraits or a photo booth (washed with my iPad and a photograph strip printer). This last time, nosotros had a professional person face painter and the toll was $2 per face. The parents of the girls donate food and the funds come from ticket sales and the portraits/photo berth.

They take been very successful and we vary the theme. Last time it was dress fancy. So that the person running the photo berth or portraits do not take to handle money, I have the girls and parents buy tickets from the cashier and use that to pay for what they are wanting to exercise. For the portraits, they are uploaded to Shutterfly and and then the participants are given a private link to view the photos and they can buy prints from Shutterfly or download them to their device. It keeps the costs down for us and makes it easy to evangelize the pictures."