Food Fundraisers for Schools & Groups
Food Fundraising Ideas for Schools, Teams & Groups
Easy food fundraisers, catalog choices, seasonal favorites, and online selling options.
You may already know what your group wants to sell, or you may still be sorting through the options. You might want a traditional brochure, a hybrid fundraiser, a cashless option, or a virtual fundraiser. Or you may want products sellers can carry with them and sell right away.
A few practical details can narrow things down quickly. How many sellers do you expect? What is the latest date you can receive your delivery? If you’re selling refrigerated or frozen foods, do you have enough cold storage to hold them until orders are picked up? And with a larger group, would having orders packed separately for each seller save your volunteers from sorting one big bulk delivery?
Your number of sellers can affect shipping, too. Some of our fundraisers include free shipping, while others require a number of items to be sold before shipping is free.
If you’re not sure which food fundraiser will work best for your group, call me. I can help you narrow down the options based on what you want to sell, how you want to sell, how many sellers you have, and when you need your delivery.
Food Fundraisers for Schools & Groups
Food Fundraising Ideas for Schools, Teams & Groups
Easy food fundraisers, catalog choices, seasonal favorites, and online selling options.
You may already know what your group wants to sell, or you may still be sorting through the options. You might want a traditional brochure, a hybrid fundraiser, a cashless option, or a virtual fundraiser. Or you may want products sellers can carry with them and sell right away.
A few practical details can narrow things down quickly. How many sellers do you expect? What is the latest date you can receive your delivery? If you’re selling refrigerated or frozen foods, do you have enough cold storage to hold them until orders are picked up? And with a larger group, would having orders packed separately for each seller save your volunteers from sorting one big bulk delivery?
Your number of sellers can affect shipping, too. Some of our fundraisers include free shipping, while others require a number of items to be sold before shipping is free.
If you’re not sure which food fundraiser will work best for your group, call me. I can help you narrow down the options based on what you want to sell, how you want to sell, how many sellers you have, and when you need your delivery.
Best Food Fundraisers for Schools and Groups
For your group, the best food fundraisers are usually the ones your sellers feel comfortable offering, and your supporters are happy to buy. Younger sellers may do better with something simple and familiar. Older sellers may be comfortable offering more choices or sharing an online store with their family and friends.
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Your buyers matter too. What are they likely to buy? Maybe it’s snacks they can enjoy right away, foods they can keep in the freezer, holiday gifts, or something they already buy for their family. That’s one reason we offer several different food fundraising ideas instead of expecting the same fundraiser to work for every group.
View Our Food Fundraising Ideas
Popcorn, Cookie Dough, Snacks, Candy, Coffee, and Gourmet Food Fundraisers
Choose the type of fundraiser you’re interested in to learn more about the available options.
Snack Fundraisers
In-Hand Sellers
Meat and Cheese Fundraiser Options
Other Food Fundraisers
Seasonal Food & Gift Catalogs
Easy Food Fundraisers
For easy food fundraising ideas, keep the selling method simple for your group. You may want a traditional brochure, online ordering, a cashless option, or products sellers can carry with them and sell right away.
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If the selling method already fits the way your group works, you’ve eliminated a lot of extra steps. That’s what makes easy food fundraisers easier for your sellers and volunteers.
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The products matter too. Familiar foods can make selling easier because your supporters already know what they’re buying. Your sellers don’t have to spend much time explaining the product before asking family and friends if they’d like to order.
Food Fundraisers for Schools and Sports Teams
The age of your sellers can make a big difference with a food fundraiser for schools. With an elementary school, families may be doing much of the selling together. Middle and high school sellers may be comfortable handling more options or sharing an online store themselves.
Group size matters with food fundraisers for schools, too. If your PTO has hundreds of sellers, having their orders packed separately can save your volunteers a lot of time. A smaller club may be perfectly
comfortable sorting a bulk delivery.
Your sports team may have fewer sellers but plenty of family, friends, neighbors, and other supporters to sell to. If they want something they can sell right away, one of our in-hand options may be easier
than collecting orders and coming back later with deliveries.
Fall and Holiday Food Fundraisers
Fall gives your group a lot of flexibility. If you want a fall food fundraiser, you can stay focused on food or choose a catalog that also includes seasonal gifts. Some fall food fundraisers can also carry nicely into Thanksgiving, depending on your timing.
Starting a fundraiser in September is not too early to promote a holiday food fundraiser. Once the products are delivered, your supporters can start enjoying them with their families and for holiday entertaining. For more variety, a catalog food fundraiser can give your buyers several choices for food and gift items.
If Thanksgiving is part of your schedule, our Thanksgiving fundraisers page gives you more Thanksgiving fundraiser ideas to compare. For Christmas, you can compare our Christmas Catalog Fundraiser options and other holiday programs on the Christmas page. If a Christmas fundraiser catalog is what you have in mind, that’s a good place to start.
Online Food Fundraising Options
If online selling is important to your group, some of our food fundraisers give you that option, while others are sold only through traditional methods. Depending on the program, you may be able to combine brochure sales with an online store, use a cashless selling option, or have supporters order online and receive their products at home.
Poppin’ Popcorn and our Otis Spunkmeyer programs offer online options, and our cheese and sausage fundraiser can also be sold online through Needs Your Support. Gourmet Goodness offers hybrid and virtual selling through Support My School. Other programs, including Snackin’ in the USA, our in-hand sellers, and coffee, do not offer online sales.
If your group wants online selling to be a major part of the fundraiser, visit our Online Fundraising page to compare the different ways your sellers and supporters can take part.
Choosing the Right Food Fundraiser
There are a lot of food fundraising companies and programs to compare, and the details can vary quite a bit. Profit, shipping, delivery dates, how orders are packed, and the way your group wants to sell can all affect which fundraiser works best.
The same is true when comparing chocolate fundraiser companies. Review our brochures, then call or email me. We can go over the details, answer your questions, and help you choose the fundraiser that works best for your group.
I know deciding what to sell for fundraising can sometimes feel overwhelming. I’m here to help make the process faster and easier.
Food Fundraiser Questions
We offer several options for popcorn fundraising, including Poppin’ Popcorn and Sweet Chaos. If you want more variety, we also offer a gourmet popcorn fundraiser with Sweet Chaos Popcorn and licorice. Some of our popcorn options also include online selling.
A snack fundraiser for schools can work well if your students and families are comfortable taking orders and delivering them later. Our snack fundraisers for schools also give your buyers several food choices without requiring sellers to carry products with them.
Yes. A chocolate bar fundraiser for schools lets your sellers have the product with them and collect payment at the time of the sale. This can be especially convenient if your group doesn’t want to take orders and make deliveries later.
If your players and families are comfortable taking orders, a snack fundraiser for sports teams may work well. If they’d rather sell something on the spot, a candy bar fundraiser for sports teams gives them an in- hand option. The same approach can work for a booster club candy fundraiser when your sellers want products ready to sell.
If you want easy food to sell for fundraisers, familiar products can make selling simpler because your supporters already know what they’re buying.
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If you decide you’d rather sell something other than food, you can also take a look at our Candle Fundraiser.
Need Help Choosing a Food Fundraiser?
Tell me what your group wants to sell, how many sellers you have, how you want to sell, and when you need your delivery. I can help you compare our food fundraising options and narrow down the ones that will work best for your group.