This year it seems everyone is buying earth-friendly products, recyclable materials and reusable containers. It makes sense then to get involved with environmentally friendly fundraisers if you need to raise money for your organization. In my last article I described what fundraisers are available to schools. The fundraisers below are set up to help you organization sell someone else’s eco-products for a profit and in return your organization receives a percentage of the money.

Websites fundraisers. These fundraisers are online. Websites fundraisers are the easiest and hassle-free way to raise money. Just register your organization online and then spread the word (ex. via email, evite and so on) about your online fundraising opportunity. Friends and family can go online to the link you have provided and place an order. Then a percentage of the profits go to your organization.

http://www.greenraising.com/how_it_works.aspx

Individual product fundraisers. These are the kind of fundraiser were a certain type of green product needs to be sold. These products, like the ones below, but not limited to these products, tend to be popular items and sometimes have accessories to accompany them.

Smencils. Smencils are pencils made from recycled newspaper and that smell. Each pencil can have a different scent, depending on the kit used. A school can receive up to 49% of the profit for selling these pencils.

http://smencils.com/fundraising.html

CFL: This fundraiser is a great opportunity to help the rest of population save on their electric bill, raise money for your organization and help the planet at the same time. Each fundraising organization generally makes about 40% of the final selling price of each light bulb.

http://www.lightbulbsamerica.com/

http://greenstudents.ca/Home.html

U-Mix-It Safe Spray bottles. These empty bottles come with homemade cleaning solution recipes or pest control recipes on each bottle so that you can make your own non-toxic environmentally friendly cleaning solution at home. It is cheaper and better for your family and the earth. Between the bottles and the laminated menu card featuring more than 40 earth-friendly solutions it will be difficult to forget how to make these solutions.

http://www.safespray.com/remedies.htm

Laptop Lunches: Many people pack their lunch to school or work. A fundraiser that sells reusable lunch containers will help eliminate lunchtime waste. Laptop Lunches is only one of the lunch packaging fundraisers available. The Internet is a great source to look for more.

http://www.laptoplunches.com/

Newman’s Organic Chocolate: If your organization is traditional about selling candy, coffee or food. That’s understandable, but convince your organization to switch to organic fair trade items like Newman’s Organic Chocolates.

http://www.crunchtime.org/chocolate_order.php

http://www.sweetearthchocolates.com/level.itml/icOid/135

Momentum: This type of fundraiser helps promote health and safe skin beauty buy selling organic beauty products (ex. cosmetics, lotions, hair products). The cost of the green products though can be very pricey, but perhaps worth the cost considering the chemicals that are in beauty products today.

http://www.momentumwf.com.au/index.php?id=15&PHPSESSID=4ebe2ba

Catalog Fundraisers: These are the traditional fundraisers that combine eco-products like the ones above in a catalog. You’ve seen the regular ones that are not environmentally friendly. They come with glossy pages and bright colors tempting you to buy everything inside. Now there are catalogs for eco-friendly fundraisers too.

The holidays are around the corners and fundraisers pamphlets, order forms, websites and catalogs are waiting for your organization to green the world.