Movie Night School Fund Raisers
This is one of those "win-win" school fund raisers because everyone likes going to the movies. Rather than selling overpriced products to your friends, relatives and neighbors for very little profit, you can give them real value (if you've ever paid $14 for a small tin of popcorn, you know what we mean).
Go to a local movie theater and ask to speak with a manager about donating a movie showing to your fund raising group. Make an agreement with the theater that you can sell the tickets and keep the money (less the cost of printing the tickets) and the theater keeps all the money from sales at the concession stand.
This is a win-win for all involved. Your group gets the money from the ticket sales, the theater gets all the money from the concessions sold and your movie watchers get to see a show they might have wanted to see anyway, without being gouged.
The best times for the show are Saturday or Sunday afternoon since that is when kids will be out of school, and the theater will be more willing to donate a showing when the theater is not as busy.
You'll want to choose a movie that has wide appeal and has a PG or safer rating to get the best attendance. The more people you have, the more money your school fund raiser (and the theater) will make and so you want to fill the theater if possible.
Divide the number of seats in the theater by the number of people in your group and this will determine the number of tickets each person should sell.
If each group member sells 10 tickets and you have only 20 people in your fund raising group, that's 200 sold. Given a typical ticket price of $8.00, your school group will earn $1600 for the night.
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