Geranium Fundraiser
Fundraiser Gift Cards
Poinsettia Fundraiser
Geranium Fundraiser
Spring plant sales have been a popular fundraiser for schools, churches and charitable organizations for many years. Everyone loves looking forward to spring sunshine and flowers, so convincing people to buy geraniums or hanging baskets is relatively easy and fun. If a group you’re involved with is looking for a way to raise money we’ll be glad to help you with a sale.
Geraniums are a traditional favorite that lots of people are familiar with, and that are known for their long bloom season and easy care. They can be planted outside from early-mid April through May. A group wanting to sell geraniums can contact Egan Gardens in February or March and let us know what their approximate sales goal is. Group members collect orders until they meet their goal or exhaust all the sales possibilities they can think of. An order form helps to get price and color information to the prospective customers, and to keep track of sales and money collection. We need to have a final order a minimum of two weeks before the chosen delivery date.
Geraniums in 4-inch pots are packed 16 to a tray, the 6-inch pot size are 12 per tray. We will want to round up any odd amounts to full trays or half trays. The group selling has their choice of the number of colors they want to sell. It just depends on how much complexity one wants to deal with. For the first year of a sale, simpler is probably better. Please notice that the color choices are somewhat different for the trailing ivy-leaf types. Egan Gardens can deliver your group’s whole order to your location on your chosen delivery day. A few groups pick the plants up at the greenhouses themselves. Delivery to individual customers sometimes is done by the salespeople in the group, or in some cases all customers are asked to pick up the plants themselves at the group’s location. The procedures are up to each group to decide for themselves.
Egan Gardens is known for the health and vigor of our geraniums, and our reputation in this area depends on providing you with quality plants and helpful service. Thank-you for considering our product for your fundraising needs.
Fundraiser Gift Cards
Selling Egan Gardens gift cards is an easy, hassle-free fundraiser for both your group selling the cards and your customers buying them. A $20 card purchased by your customer can be used at our retail location for any of our products. Your fundraising group pays $15 for the cards, and you make $5 on every card you sell. You don’t have to handle plants, arrange for a location for plant delivery, separate customer orders, or any of the other work of a regular plant sale. You just hand out the cards, collect the money and send in your share to us. Our staff takes it from there, helping the customers at our nursery.
The gift cards make life easy for your customers, too. They can use the cards any time, so there’s no problem of a sale date being inconvenient or weather being bad, as with regular plant sales. They are able to select their own plants, whatever kinds and colors they want, without being limited to just what a one-day sale can provide.
Egan Gardens gift cards are a great option for groups that have difficulty getting volunteers to put in time carrying out a plant sale, or who have older members who have a hard time lifting and hauling flats of plants. Gift cards can also be sold as an additional item in a plant sale to accommodate customers whose schedules don’t permit them to participate in the sale.
Poinsettia Fundraiser
Poinsettia sales have proven to be an excellent fundraising project for many schools, churches and charitable organizations. Though there are lots of them going on already the market does not seem to be overfilled. If any classes or clubs at your school are looking for a way to raise money, we’d be glad to help you with a sale.
Generally, a group contacts Egan Gardens in September with a tentative order based on their sales goal. For example, if there are 30 kids wanting to sell plants and each figures they can sell 6, they place an order for 150 to 200 plants. Some groups decide to make things easy and sell only red poinsettias, the most popular, traditional color. Others may choose to give their customers more choices and sell red, white, pink and variegated (Jingle Bells). Most sell just the 6 1/2” pot size, a 5 to 6 bloom plant. Regis High in Stayton sells the 5-6 bloom, a larger pot with 7-10 blooms, and big planters, and they do well with all three sizes, in red, white and pink.
We recommend starting sales early in fall, even if people aren’t really ready to think about Christmas yet – just remind them that they don’t have to get the plants until December. We growers already have the crop all planted, and there’s no chance to add to or subtract from our crop, so orders do need to get to us as quickly as possible. The first week of November is when most groups give us their final, firm numbers. An order form of some kind will help your customers decide and you to keep track of your sales. We strongly urge your salespeople to collect money at the time they collect orders. People sometimes forget or change their minds about things ordered 2 months ago. Don’t let them. If you sell far beyond the amount you’ve tentatively requested, it’s a good idea to keep us posted so we can try to be sure we can fill your order. Likewise, if you don’t sell anywhere near what you hoped, please keep us informed of that, so that we have time to find other customers for those plants.
Egan Gardens can deliver your group’s whole order to school, church or other location on the day you chose, or the day we decide on together if your first choice is already overbooked. Usually the week of Thanksgiving and the week after are the most popular times. If a sale is quite large, we can go to two or three locations if necessary, as long as they’re fairly close together.
Finally a real sales pitch for us as a supplier. The plants we grow are so much nicer than what you’ve seen in stores. You and your customers won’t believe the difference between plants fresh from the greenhouse and the tired things in grocery stores. They cost more, but they’re worth much more. We’re proud of our product and we think you’ll be pleased to offer them to your friends, family and local businesses.
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