Cookie Walk & Craft Show
 

How often do you do have this fundraiser? Once a year during November or early December
 

What type of fundraiser is this? Cookie Walk & Craft Show
 

What do you do to prepare for the fundraiser?

1. Collect all sizes of coffee cans throughout the year.
2. Ask all Aux. members to bake at least 3 dozen cookies or bars. Put name of cookie and their name with the cookies. Deliver or we pick up the day before the cookie walk.
3. Cover all cookie tins in x-mas wrap and determine a price per size of tin.
4. Contact as many crafters as possible in October and sell tables for them to sell their crafts to the public. $15.00 to 25.00 per table is average cost.
5. Select date and advertise the cookie walk.
6. (A cookie walk is where you buy a coffee tin and fill it with as many cookies as you like for a specified price.)small tin $4.00 medium tin $6.00 large tin $8.00 for example.

What are the costs to put on this fundraiser? zero, zip, zilch, all profit. Everything is donated, tins, cookies. Sell tables. Well maybe some copy cost for flyer but that is it. You don't have to buy advertising use community free advertising such as newspapers, tv, radio, signs, ask grocery stores to put flyers in grocery sacks for you.
 

How much do you charge for the tickets or meal, etc.? As stated above. Prices can be set to what ever you think your community will pay.

How many members are needed to put on the fundraiser? As many as possible, we ask all Aux. members to participate to have many different cookies.

How much do you usually profit from the fundraiser? If you can sell at least 30 crafter tables at $15.00 is an automatic $450.00. Plus then the sale of cookies. As Albion is a small town of 1500 people we total around $700.00 each year.

What do you usually hold the fundraiser for? We usually use the money for the children's Christmas. (members children only) We also sometimes donate whats left to the Aerie to use for utilities.

Submitted by Juni Krontz of Albion, Indiana #2455