Sweet Deals: School Fundraising Can Be Healthy and Profitable, Says CSPI
US lobby group Center for Science in the Public Interest has investigated school fundraisers and found “schools have a wide range of non-food and healthy-food fundraising options to choose from, and experience shows that these options can raise as much or even more money than junk-food sales.”
Their ideas include physical activity fundraisers, book fairs, grocery store fundraisers, recycling, and healthy food sales.
They recommend avoiding sweets or pizza sales, fast food fundraisers, label redemption schemes, cake sales, and vending machines.
Read more: Press release, Center for Science in the Public Interest, 14 Feb 2007
Sweet Deals: School Fundraising Can Be Healthy and Profitable
Read CSPI’s report (PDF)