The Great School Cook Book Sale

by Andrew
(Bartow)

I have been a part of a few good Cook Book fund raisers in my day and I would like to tell you about this one. Some thing always needs fixing and boy did the walls at our school need fixing. Cracks, black mold, stains, and many other things plague the walls in one of the largest wings of our school. Out of the fund raisers that had work very well in the past, we chose to try something new and see how that would work.

This fund raiser actually worked in two phases. The first one started with the making of the cook books. We asked the students help to bring in recipes that they or they and their parents used at home that was completely original and not copyrighted in any way. They were given free home work passes for each recipe they brought in. Man oh man did they bring in those recipes like crazy.

Once this part was over, we assembled the recipes and made the book and then shipped it off to be produced. And now this is where phase two starts to happen. Once the cook books had been delivered back to the school, we handed them out to students at the school to sell to their parents, neighbors, co workers, and who ever they could get their hands on to buy these books.

The production cost of the cook books were relatively low so we could charge a reasonable price and still hopefully make enough money for the repairs. And let me remind you that the work the walls needed to have done on and to them was not going to be cheap for us.

We had students bring in the money daily so we could keep track of the sales. They were given a month and a half to sell as many as they could and the one who sold the most received a reward for their very hard work and valiant effort put into the sales of these books.

Well when the time came to total up all the sales and subtract that from what we had spent, we found that the fund raiser was a success with a profit of six hundred percent to go to fixing the walls.