Green Fundraising Isn’t Just About Saving the Earth!

January 4, 2009 · Posted in Green Business 101, Green Industry, Green Technology 

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About Green Fundraising

Fundraising Coordinators have been looking for something new for years that their groups can take and sell to raise money. Everyone, it seems, already has enough wrapping paper and frozen cookie dough and chocolate bars and they want something different, something they might actually use.

Enter green fundraising. Green fundraisers work exceptionally well as they are capitalizing on people’s newfound desire to save the planet. Most people wonder what they, as one person, can do to save the planet and green fundraisers offer them products to help do just that.

Green Fundraiser Options

Green fundraisers offer groups a wide variety of products all designed to help them raise as much money as possible by allowing them to present products that people actually want to their customers. As was stated previously, most people want to do something to help the planet. Green fundraisers offer products ranging from reusable shopping bags, to trees, to organic foods. All of which help to improve the environment and enrich people’s lives.

The organic foods can be purchased “dry” meaning they come as premixed powders that only need water and eggs to be transformed into delicious goodies. Or, a fun twist on the healthy fundraiser is to have a bake sale where you sell organic breads and fruits.

Reusable shopping bags can completely eliminate plastic bag waste which is one of the top contributors to pollution in the world.

Tree fundraisers tend to be some of the most successful green fundraisers. People can instantly identify with the numerous benefits they will receive from purchasing the tree. And, their low cost makes the purchase an easy one.

Your Group and Green Fundraising

A fundraising coordinator looking to offer their group the best fundraiser available should look into green fundraisers. Though not many companies currently offer green fundraising ideas and options, the ones that do tend to be incredible helpful. Green fundraisers are perfect for schools and other organizations that have been told they can not or do not want to sell unhealthy food items such as candy and cookie dough.

Jordan Gottlieb

http://www.go-green-fundraising.com

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