If you're involved in a school group you know that money is tight. You also know that fundraising has become a fact of life for most schools. The funds raised cover what the budget can't. Things like supplies, field trips, new books or computers, and other key parts of education would be lacking without it. Every school and organization is fighting for a smaller and smaller amount of funding. People have to get creative to get the basic funding that they need.

Fundraisers can be fun and are a great way to bring a class or group together. They can even be expanded to a whole school event that makes it a competition and brings in more money. Lots of people do the basic bottle drives and bake sales. Some groups sell magazines and gift wrapping paper. There are a lot of fundraisers out there but most of them require a lot of grunt work and organization. It takes a bunch of super organized adults to pull off a successful bottle drive, bake sale or car wash.

One of the easiest and most creative fundraisers is a cookie dough sale, using the expertise of a company who is actually in the business. Cookie dough fundraising can at first sound like a daunting task, having to place the orders, get the cookie dough and organize it, then put together orders, it sounds like a lot of work right? It doesn't have to be. Everyone loves cookies and most people will usually participate in cookie fundraiser. Wouldn't it be nice to have your group sell as many orders as possible of cookies and not have to worry about a large part of the process? When the company delivers the materials and organizes them for you it makes things so much easier.

Once you send in your orders all you have to do is put the orders together and give them to the customer once everything else is taken care of. It's fast and easy and can be done with a handful of volunteers instead of relying on every parent in our group to pitch in. This is nothing like the labor involved with a bottle drive or other fundraising event.

The other plus side to selling cookies? They have to be one of the easiest things to sell in a down economy. Everyone loves their favorite sweet pick-me-up baking in the oven and making their homes smell wonderful. Cookie fundraisers can be carried out by groups of any age and are generally a big hit. So when it comes around to fundraiser season again, and you're looking for a new idea, why not sell cookie dough?