Northridge Cookie Fundraiser

Each year student council comes to a decision on what the annual Fall Football Fundraiser will entail. Our graduating class came to the conclusion that a home game bake sale would be our best opportunity to generate funding for the annual senior trip. The fall football fundraiser, here at Northridge High, has become something of a tradition in our recent history. Previous classes have tried many different approaches towards creating revenue for the annual senior trip. From my research I have discovered that our bake sale has by far surpassed any other attempt to maximize profits in the past. In our decision to have a bake sale as our fundraiser, we had to come to a consensus on what we were actually going to bake. We wanted to create something generally easy to bake to cut down on labor, while being able to make mass amounts of our product at the same time. Our decision was unanimous, that a cookie sale would be the ideal approach.
Our class decided to go with the classic chocolate chip cookies. We wanted to sell them in large packages in order to raise prices, all the while ensuring our customers felt satisfied with their purchase. You can only sell so many cookies for a good cause when the price is too high. When giving quality and quantity, we ensured happy customers and often multiple packages were purchased.
Although out ingredients were by far the most expensive disbursements we encountered, the profits vastly outweighed the expenses. While the ingredients were costly, it ensured a quality product; one that would be sought after and bought for the remainder of our home games.

When reviewing our success in the fundraiser, there were few aspects of our procedure in which we could have changed to generate greater revenue. The first would be to change our cookies from chocolate chip to sugar or peanut butter.