Cookbook Fundraising

Have members of your school or club submit (preferably printed) their favorite recipe and either their children's favorite recipes or someone else in their family. Have someone put the recipes together and make a recipe book. My mother's auxiliary club did this as a fundraising project and it was a huge success. Many of the children use the cookbook to this day and now we are now putting together a "revised" cookbook. The cookbook we made contains tried and true recipes -- one of which they like for adults and one which they know their kids eat.

The hardest part was having to re-type everything but I suppose people could email them in and the recipes could be cut and pasted into a word processing program. These were family recipes. For instance - my mom submitted a recipe that was from my great grandmother from Italy for homemade manicotti (how to make the shells and all). We were amazed at how many people were willing to share their family's recipe secrets! The fundraising cookbook was not hard cover - it was really just a "soft cover", the "cover" being just a thicker paper than what was inside. We went to a photocopy place to make the copies and stapled the pages together.

This idea comes from a website called Do It Yourself Fundraising and you can find their website here