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Fresh Fundraising Ideas for Spring
Spring Fundraising Ideas for Schools, Teams & Groups
Springtime gives schools, teams, and groups an opportunity to raise money when fewer organizations are selling and promoting a fundraiser for Mother's Day, which can increase your sales even further.
Your school or organization can choose from spring catalogs, candle fundraisers, food fundraisers, and several spring fundraisers that include online fundraising options.
Best Spring Fundraisers for Schools, Teams & Groups
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Hello Spring Fundraiser
Our Hello Spring fundraiser is highly recommended and features a wide range of affordable items. Your shoppers can buy flowers for Mother's Day, chocolates for Easter, and spring gifts for teachers, family, or your home.
Hello Spring is an outstanding spring catalog fundraiser with an online store. Sellers can reach family and friends they might not see during the fundraiser, and it helps if someone doesn't have cash. Buyers can shop and order online.
You earn 50% on most brochure sales and 40% on food and select items, with free shipping. No minimums or upfront costs make this a great choice for groups of any size. Yankee candles are sold online only and earn $11 each, while other items earn a 40% profit.
Consider combining Hello Spring with Gourmet Goodness to include more food choices.
Perfect Scents for Every Season
Perfect Scents for Every Season gives your group a candle fundraiser that works beautifully for Mother's Day, spring birthdays, and everyday home fragrance.
With our Perfect Scents for Every Season brochure, supporters can buy candles, wax melts, and room sprays. The online store also offers more spring options, including candles for Valentine's Day, Easter, and Mother's Day, along with our Celebrate the Moments candles.
You can choose a hybrid, cashless, or virtual fundraiser. We recommend a hybrid fundraiser for higher sales.
Your profit increases from 40% to 50% with 150+ items sold (brochure + plus online ship-to-group). Ship-to-home and virtual orders earn 40% profit. Shipping is free on orders of $99+ for brochures and ship-to-home online sales. Supporters receive free shipping on ship-to-group orders.
Spring Extravaganza
Spring Extravaganza combines cookie dough, snacks, sweet treats, and gift items in a single, larger brochure.
This spring, groups can choose a frozen cookie dough fundraiser with Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough as the main item and a variety of other foods. With more options, shoppers often buy multiple items.
Your group earns 40% on all brochure and online sales.
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Gourmet Goodness
Our Gourmet Goodness brochure features affordable snacks, chocolates, and food mixes. With sweet and savory options, it offers food choices without requiring buyers to browse a much larger gift catalog.
You can also pair Gourmet Goodness with Hello Spring. Groups can combine the two to offer a wider variety of food items. They share the same online store, and everything ships together.
Why Spring Fundraising Works
Early spring is an ideal time to raise money before the spring sports season begins and before schoolwide fundraisers start. To boost sales, avoid competing with other fundraisers during April's peak season.
For occasions like Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, or graduation, supporters will want to order gifts and help raise funds. Our spring fundraisers offer gift ideas.
The best springtime fundraisers give supporters something they will truly enjoy, such as burning candles at home or watching flowers grow. The best ideas for spring fundraisers also offer high profit margins, multiple online shopping options, and free shipping.
Spring Fundraising Ideas by Month
Spring passes quickly, especially when fundraising for upcoming events. Selecting the right fundraisers for spring involves considering products, start and end dates, and the delivery schedule.
February fundraiser ideas often focus on school trips, yearbooks, or other activities.
When groups want to find the best fundraiser for Mother's Day, they often compare March fundraiser ideas. Ask how long delivery takes. Some distributors ship within 10 days; others can take several weeks.
For end-of-year school activities or team expenses, April fundraiser ideas are highly searched. Start early to beat the competition.
May fundraisers are typically spring fundraising ideas before the end of a school year and are chosen by groups that start late to raise money for graduation and summer trips.
Summer youth groups and camps begin fundraising in late spring and early summer. When searching for June fundraiser ideas, keep in mind some fundraisers are not available June through August
Spring Catalog Fundraisers
A spring catalog fundraiser gives families a variety of items to browse at home, and some programs also offer online ordering.
Hello Spring focuses on seasonal gifts, flowers, chocolates, and Mother's Day. Spring Heartland Goodies and Gifts offers buyers a wider assortment of snacks, gifts, and useful home items. Spring Extravaganza combines cookie dough with snacks, sweets, and gift items.
Flower Fundraising and Spring Gift Ideas
Flower fundraising is ideal for spring when families are already thinking about gardens, porch planters, Easter, and Mother's Day gifts.
A spring flower fundraiser may include potted plants, bulbs, seeds, or a mix of all three. To boost sales, we recommend selling flowers alongside chocolates, gifts, candles, and other seasonal items.
Consider flower fundraiser ideas for supporters who can receive them when it is time to plant. A flower bulb fundraiser, flower seed fundraiser, or spring bulb fundraising program works well with our online store's ship-to-home options.
Spring Fundraising Ideas for Schools
Spring fundraising ideas for schools include brochures, online ship-to-school and ship-to-home options, packed orders, prizes, and accounts for the chairperson and sellers.
The best spring fundraiser ideas for schools include hybrid fundraisers, high-profit items, and easy-to-sell products.
A brochure, candle fundraiser, cookie dough fundraiser, food fundraiser, or seasonal catalog can give schools different ways to raise money. Some spring fundraisers for schools also include online ordering.
Spring school fundraiser ideas are needed for PTO and PTA groups, clubs, and teams to raise money. Our spring school fundraiser ideas include several brochures and online options.
Spring fundraising ideas for students work best when students understand what they are selling, why the funds are needed, and when orders are due.
Elementary School Spring Fundraiser Ideas
Elementary school spring fundraiser ideas often work best when the brochure and instructions are easy for your families to follow. Our Hello Spring and GLOW candles are our most popular and successful fundraisers.
Middle School Spring Fundraiser Ideas
Middle school spring fundraiser ideas can support clubs, music programs, and student activities.
Spring School Fundraisers for High School
Spring school fundraisers for high school, such as cookie dough sales, are often chosen for teams and class fundraisers.
PTO and PTA Spring Fundraising
PTO spring fundraiser ideas often support field trips, new playgrounds, and school programs.
Spring fundraiser ideas for PTO groups often become annual traditions, especially when they include a Hello Spring hybrid fundraiser that includes a prize program. Spring fundraiser ideas for PTA groups are also considered to raise funds for their accounts.
Mother's Day PTA fundraising ideas and Mother's Day PTO fundraising ideas can work especially well when the fundraiser gives families gifts they are already thinking about buying.
PTO spring school fundraisers for high school help cover costs for project graduation, and other end-of-year fundraiser ideas help pay for tickets and entertainment.
Easter and Mother’s Day Fundraising Ideas
It's a good idea to review Easter fundraising ideas in January and then start your Easter fundraiser early. If you can start in February or March, that usually works best, giving your team or group plenty of time to sell, gather orders, and get products delivered before Easter.
Easter fundraising ideas with spring catalogs can include selling chocolates, flowers, candles, and small gifts.
Some groups hold an Easter egg hunt fundraiser and add a product sale to raise additional money.
Easter fundraising ideas for schools should stay focused because spring break, school activities, and sports can quickly fill family calendars. We suggest viewing Easter fundraiser ideas in January and starting your fundraiser early.
Mother’s Day fundraiser ideas usually need to start in March or very early April, since products must be delivered before Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Day fundraising ideas can include flowers, candles, chocolates, and other gifts buyers are already considering. Mother’s Day fundraising for schools can also help raise money for end-of-year activities.
Mother’s Day fundraisers do not need to be complicated. The best Mother’s Day fundraising gifts are simply things people are happy to buy and give.
Prom, Graduation, and Senior Class Fundraisers
Prom fundraiser ideas can help with decorations, entertainment, and other event expenses. Students and families are more likely to participate when they know exactly what the money will support.
Start prom fundraising ideas early enough so the sale isn't rushed too close to the event. Short selling periods and clear deadlines can keep prom fundraisers from becoming another last-minute job for students and parents.
Project graduation fundraising ideas can support safe senior celebrations, class events, and other end-of-year activities. Project graduation fundraiser ideas should begin early enough to avoid competing with the rush of final exams, sports, ceremonies, and family schedules.
Project graduation fundraisers should start early enough that families aren't asked to sell during the final rush of senior year.
Fundraising ideas for graduation may also support senior trips or other final-year activities. The same is true for graduation fundraiser ideas and grad fundraising ideas when the goal is clear, and families understand what they are helping to pay for.
Senior Fundraiser Ideas
Senior fundraiser Ideas can support prom, graduation, senior trips, and other final-year events. Senior class fundraising ideas work best when the class has a clear goal that families want to support.
End of the School Year Fundraiser Ideas
End-of-the-school-year fundraiser ideas should stay focused because families already have plenty going on. A short spring sale can help cover end-of-year expenses.
Spring Sports, Youth Groups, and Camp Fundraising
Spring sports fundraiser ideas can help with uniforms, equipment, tournament fees, team travel, field costs, and other season expenses.
Youth sports fundraising ideas should give busy families something they can share around practices, games, school, and work schedules. Popcorn Fundraisers, candles, food, catalogs, and other familiar products can give teams several choices.
Groups seeking funding for summer camps may need to start fundraising before school ends. The same is true for fundraising for camp when families need help with registration fees, travel, equipment, or activity costs.
A coffee fundraiser can also appeal to parents, teachers, coaches, and other adult supporters.
Easy Spring Fundraising Ideas
The easiest spring fundraisers keep the selling process clear and give families something they are happy to buy.
Some groups prefer brochures and catalogs that families can browse at home. Others want Online Fundraising so supporters can order by link.
A clear deadline, timely reminders, and a fundraiser that makes sense for the season can make a big difference.
The best spring fundraisers are not always the biggest. They are the ones your group can confidently share and finish on time.