Green Child Magazine Back-to-School 2012

10 Eco-Friendly Fundraising Ideas to Kick Off the School Year habit. Itzy Ritzy® offers fundraising opportunities with their Itzy Ritzy’s Snack Happened™ Reusable Snack Bags and Wet Happened?® Zippered Wet Bags. Planet Wise, eSnackIt®, AgainBags, and One Small Step also offer various bag fundraising. Laptop Lunches and Kids Konserve offer lunch bag fundraising. 1. Coffee, Chocolate & Tea: Who doesn’t like coffee or tea? Equal Exchange and Grounds for Change offer organic coffee, chocolate, teas and gifts for fundraising opportunities. 2. T-Shirts: Have an event that you need T-shirts? Offer the T-shirts as part of the fundraiser. Eco Sprouts and Green Benefits offer sustainable T-shirt fundraising opportunities. 3. Flower & Seed Power: Spring and fall are perfect times for a seed/ bulb fundraiser. Sow True Seeds and the OnlineGreenHouse offer non-GMO organic seed fundraisers. EcoTulips sells organic bulbs. 4. Smencils and Smens: Get your fall fundraising off to a good start with Smencils. Who doesn’t need pencils at the beginning of the year? Smencil and Smens are pencils and pens made out of recycled newspaper that smell good. Also, Smencils are a great Fundraiser for Halloween. Less candy, more pencils. 56 For more ideas, be sure to check out more green fundraising ideas on Green Talk. As you can see making green and being green can yield wonderful teaching lessons for our kids. Additional Resources: AgainBags BuyMyTronics Earthtone Solutions EcoSprouts EcoTulips Funding Factory Green Benefits Greenraising Grounds for Change Equal Exchange Itzy Ritzy® Kids Konserve Koru Fundraising Laptop Lunches Milkmuny Online Greenhouse One Small Step Planet Wise ReSnackIt *

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