Old Cookbook Fundraiser: A Profitable Option for Charities

[scottcooks]

I was listening to an old PC cassette tape that talked about the Cookbook Fundraiser, and it having a really high $$ to organizations that did it.

Something like $4 or $6 on every cookbook sold goes to the charity, and I think the books may have been $10. But you had to sell a "case" of books - didn't sound like our current $14.75 cookbooks.

Anyone remember what that was?

 

[Teresa Lynn]

yes they were thicker spiral bound (maybe 5 x 7 ") we had one with a green cover and one was blueif you have an used bookstore you can probably find a copy there.

 

[nldavis321]

Is there a cookbook fundraiser we can do know? Any ideas on how we could do that?

 

[ChefBeckyD]

The cookbooks that were a part of that fundraiser looked more like the cookbooks you see churches and other organizations do for fundraisers - but there were a lot of great recipes in them!

I had one, but someone borrowed a a while back, and I can't remember who! That cookbook was where I first found the Bountiful Brunch Pizza recipe.

 

[jrstephens]

I did not know we ever had that. How long ago was it? I may have to check Ebay.

 

[chefann]

That FR was discontinued right when I signed with PC, so it's been a LONG time! The books were full of great recipes, but they were the "typical PC" recipes with a lot of convenience foods in them. And the books didn't have any pictures. (I like pictures in my cookbooks, so I can check that I'm making the recipe correctly.) The two books available were Recipes from the Heart (blue) and The Kitchen is the Heart of the Home (green). They're 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 size with plastic comb binding. As mentioned, you can sometimes find them at used bookstores or garage sales.As far as a current cookbook FR, some consultants have put one together for when cookbooks are the guest special, but it is NOT a HO-approved method. We are not supposed to charge more for an item than someone can get it for, and that's what the made-up CB FR does.

 

[jrstephens]

I found several of each of them on Ebay.

 

[pamperedpals]

I still have both of my copies from my first time selling PC about 11 years ago.