Healthy Food

By Jordan Gottlieb

Healthy Food Fundraising

As obesity runs rampant in America, PTA's, school districts, and school boards are turning more and more often to healthier alternatives to the classic cookie dough fundraiser or candy fundraiser that has dominated the landscape for years. Fundraisers that sell healthy foods instead of unhealthy foods are clearly the future of fundraising.

Problems with "Old Fashioned" Fundraisers

For as long as anyone in the fundraising community can remember, the most popular fundraisers have been those that sell cookie dough or candy.

Cookie dough fundraisers have seller's pre-sell cookie dough to customers out of catalogues. The dough is delivered frozen, which means that the group who sold the dough needs to be there when the truck arrives so their cookie dough doesn't spoil. Cookie dough is also ridiculously high in fat and sugar and is made with raw eggs which can make people sick.

Candy fundraisers range from chocolate bar sales to lollipop sales. No matter what kind of candy fundraiser you are doing though, you buy your candy ahead of your sale and then either set up shop on a corner or in front of a store, or, you go door to door. Candy, obviously, is chock full of sweeteners and sugars, among other unhealthy products.

Both candy and cookie dough fundraising are being banned because neither is very healthy.

Why Healthy Food Fundraiser Make Sense

Healthy food fundraisers are just what they sound like and can be conducted in one of two ways. The first way is to have a healthy foods bake sale. Instead of selling cookies, cakes, and other sweets like a traditional bake sale, groups can sell organic breads, all natural preserves, and healthy trail mixes.

The other way to have a healthy food fundraiser is to do a pre-sell fundraiser, similar to frozen cookie dough, but with healthy, non-spoilable products. Some fundraising companies have started offering organic bread kits, organic pizza crust kits, all natural trail mixes, and even organic dog treat mixes that can be sold from a catalogue to raise money.

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