Win the Fundraiser Game with a No-Bake Sale using Original Gourmet Lollipops

It’s that time of year; shortly after school returns to session, the fundraising starts up.  The catalogs are getting bigger, and it seems to some a lot more expensive!  Wrapping paper, candles and boxed candies are good but then you have to wait for the orders to come in!  The volunteers deliver them to the people that probably already forgot what they ordered from their sweet niece, nephew or neighbor.  They collect the money and then finally return the funds to the organization weeks after it started.  Of course there are teachers or group organizers behind all this coordination.  It all seems exhausting!

We like to focus on making smiles, making people happy, and we have some great ideas to simplify your group’s next fundraiser.  We have people on staff with tons of fundraising experience, and they’ll help you get your Original Gourmet Lollipops fundraiser off the ground and making money in no time!

So, your OG Fundraising Specialist hooked you up, and you just got the lollipops delivered.  Now what?  Glad you asked!

A “Sucker Pull” can be done a few different ways, so we’ll give you a few suggestions.

This photo is from our Summer Company Outing, but you can get the idea of what the Lollipop Tree looks like.  Someone used a red marker to mark the end of the lollipop stick that can’t be seen when it’s inserted into the display.

Now imagine this display at the Bake Sale table outside the basketball game.  Everyone else had to bake something, and hope they all sell so they won’t spoil.  But at your table, someone was smart enough to have this lollipop display on the table, which takes up very little space – and you can’t sell them fast enough!  With each lollipop pulled, your group is making money, and now you’re getting envious looks for your savvy idea!

Encourage even more sales using that red-tipped Sucker Pull idea.  Ask a local coffee house or restaurant will donate a few prizes so that if someone pulls that marked lollipop – you have a sweet prize for them!  Customers might have only bought one or two, but they love their morning coffee, so now they’re throwing you $5, $10 to keep trying their luck – all with a sweet ending, regardless or whether they win!

If you didn’t get a “Sucker Pull Prize”, you could still consider a 50/50 raffle with that lucky lollipop winner.  See what works best for your group and gives you the best results.

Are you selling other items that you also want to encourage, like a book, craft or yard sale?  Try different colors of marker on the end of the sticks to represent different discounts based on the lollipop you chose!  You’ll have fewer lollipops marked with the more valuable colors, and lots with the least valuable.  Everyone walks away a winner.  You only need one more thing: a Sign!

Donate 50¢ and choose a sucker

Check the color on the end of the stick

Every sucker is a winner!

• -       Blue - Any 50¢ item
• -       Red – Any item $1 item
• -       Purple – Any item $2 or less
• -       Green – Any item $3 or less
• -       Black – Any item $4 or less
• -       Pink – Any item $5 or less

Team & Club Fundraising

If you have a great team of volunteers or club members to work with, you can leverage that by selling the Gourmet Lollipops straight up.  Around school, at sporting events, concessions stands and more – just have your team bring them wherever they go.  (Trust us, people always ask us where our lollipops are if we show up empty handed!)  Before you know it, everyone at the soccer game has one of your lollipops and people come asking where they can get one!

How hard is it?  It’s great for even the shyest and youngest volunteers.  One of our graphic designers sent a box of lollipops with her husband to work since he was stopping by the main office.  It was a retail box like you’d see at a store, and said “2 / $1” on the box.  He didn’t have a second thought leaving them on a table before his meeting, but when he came back – his box was full of MONEY and not Lollipops!  His co-workers were spot-on with the honor system, and we all had a good laugh about it.  Everyone loves these lollipops (even tough tradesmen like he works with).

So, the only question left is how?  As we said before, we have a specialist for you to contact at fundraising@ogfc.net.  If you start off with our standard box of only lollipops, you’ll get 120 lollipops.  The box is 9.25” x 9.25” x 6.5", so it’s super portable.  If you sold each lollipop for $1 (and you’ve paid far less than that for the lollipops), you just made an easy $60+.  And you didn’t have to bake a thing.