Fundraising Ideas for Christmas

Christmas fundraisers can offer Christmas fundraiser catalogs, online fundraising stores, and virtual fundraising ideas. For best results with your Christmas fundraising campaigns, a traditional Christmas fundraising catalog along with an online fundraising store will achieve much higher sales and funds for your organization. Christmas fundraiser catalog sales with online sales offer your customers a greater variety of items and the possibility for increased sales by offering friends and family to option to shop online and have their order shipped directly to their home. This Christmas fundraiser option is better than wreath fundraising, Christmas tree fundraiser, or a poinsettia fundraiser where customers decline placing an order because they don’t want the limited items offered. Your organization also doesn’t want to lose the option of offering an online fundraising store to be able sell throughout the continental USA. Once you choose a Christmas fundraiser, we will ship your Christmas fundraiser catalogs detailing the items your customers can purchase. For all our Christmas fundraising ideas, your fundraiser catalogs will be shipped free, we will help create a participant letter to distribute to your students, set up your online store, etc. Once you receive your Christmas fundraiser catalogs, your participants will take them around to potential customers and collect the payments upfront.

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Timing is essential for your success. Most organizations may want to start their Christmas fundraiser shortly before Christmas, believing they will achieve better results. Afterall, everyone likes to purchase Christmas gifts, Christmas wrapping paper, Christmas décor, etc.  However, this is not always the best time. By November, there is an abundance of other fundraisers being held. Families who were eager in September to participate in a fall fundraiser to help raise funds will most likely be less enthusiastic in November to fundraise again. After asking their friends and family to support, for example, a PTA fundraiser in September, may not be as willing to participate in a sports fundraiser a month or so later. Keep in mind, as well, that with any fundraising idea, shipping will take longer in November due to increased volume of orders being received and shipping companies take longer due to the holiday season. Some companies can ship orders within a few days. Others can take 4 or 5 weeks and so, it is important to schedule your fundraising dates accordingly to allow enough time to receive your shipment before a school’s winter break, the end of a sports season, or before Christmas. Starting a fundraiser earlier in the fall can still promote sales for Christmas, especially because by the time the sale ends, items are shipped, and then delivered by the students it is already getting close to the holidays! Call us, and together, we can match you will the right Christmas fundraising idea.

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Once you’ve collected your orders and money, you’ll submit your orders. And with our Christmas fundraisers, you’ll get to keep your profit right away from your Christmas fundraiser catalog sales. Profits from online sales are either credited to your invoice or a check is sent to you after your online fundraising store has closed. Shipping may be extra with some of our fundraising distributors, and may depend on the number of items sold, may be a flat rate, or may be free! Some fundraising ideas may also require you to place a minimum order, so make sure you review each program to assure you can sell up to that level. We can discuss your fundraising options to find the best program for your group.

Most of our Christmas fundraisers pack each seller’s order separately for easy distribution, with no extra charges. A few of our programs are shipped bulk and will need to be sorted and then distributed by your organization.