Listed below are the main fundraisers for the year. Also listed are the fundraisers that are ongoing throughout the year. They are spread out during the course of the school year. We ask that you pick at least two fundraisers to help out at. Your help is always appreciated. We always put the “FUN” in FUN-draising. So come and enjoy the camaraderie, fellowship and meet new friends at our fundraisers. The parish requires us to meet a certain fundraising goal each year to help offset the cost of running our great school. That is why it is important for all of us to get involved in our fundraising efforts. If you have any questions, please call the school at 218-879-8516.

Scrip

The Scrip program is an ongoing program throughout the whole year. Businesses allow us to buy full price gift certificates at a discount. Discounts vary by vendor. Each time you make a purchase using a scrip certificate, you help our school out. A list of the businesses participating is available in the school office or after the weekend masses. Scrip is available during the week at the school office or after mass on Saturday and Sunday. This is the easiest fundraiser to help our school.

Work-a-thon

Normally held the end of September or beginning of October each year. The event is sponsored by the Minnesota Marathons for Nonpublic Education along with the Knights of Columbus. Queen of Peace has chosen to do a Work-a-thon versus a Marathon. We clean and spruce up Pinehurst Park in Cloquet’s central neighborhood. 100% of the pledges received stay at our school, which is great. Many companies will provide corporate matching funds, check with your employer to see if they participate.

Wreath Sales

Sales start the first weekend in October and conclude the end of October. Delivery is the third Friday of November, right before Thanksgiving. There are many possibilities to earn sales, through school sales, parish sales via calling lists, selling after mass and attending several local bazaars’s selling wreaths. We normally sell about 1500 wreaths and so help is needed. Distribution day is a lot of work but we make it fun. We have to sort and count the wreaths, put together the family orders, deliver many to businesses and individuals that requested delivery. We enjoy food, fun and fellowship along with meeting new friends. This is our largest fundraiser.

Cookie Walk/Craft Sale

Held in early December after mass on Saturday and Sunday. Each family is request to bring about 4 – 6 dozen homemade cookies to sell. Along with the cookies, we hold a craft sale that is attended by several local crafters. Help is needed to setup and work the cookie walk and the craft tables for the sale.

Mardi Gras Celebration

Planning begins approximately three months prior to the event. The event is held the weekend before Lent begins. This event has grown to be a parish event, not just a school fundraiser. The event has a silent auction, live auction, basket sales, great food and drink, dance and special raffles which have included jewelry and flat screen HD television. We ask each family to donate baskets for the basket sale and to help with donations for the silent and live auctions. This is one time that we ask the community business’ to help by donating items or services to the event. The event is held in the social hall and the school cafeteria. We spend the Friday before making food, decorating and setting up. This is our showcase event.

Cookie Dough Sale

Sale starts in January and delivery is in early March. Many parents, grandparents, friends and family look for this fundraiser. We sell Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough which is the best on the market. Order forms are sent home with a time limit as to when they need to be turned in. Help is needed the day of delivery to put together the orders for the families. Each family is responsible for delivering their order to the customers.

Pasty Bake

This fundraiser has been a long standing event that many in the parish look forward to. The pasty bake is held sometime in March, depending on Easter and Easter break. Each family will receive an order form to pre-sell pasties. The actual making and baking of the pasties takes place starting on a Thursday evening and finishing on Saturday. Each day we have many of the school children helping in the process and they love it. This is probably our best social and working event. We make it fun! A request sheet for donations is sent out prior to the event. Our largest need is labor to make and bake the pasties. Listed below are the miscellaneous fundraisers that are ongoing throughout the year. These are easy to do and net us a lot of extra money and credits for school equipment. Have the rest of your family, friends and co-workers help by saving labels, box tops and milk caps. We have containers outside the school office to deposit your donations.

Box Tops

Look at all of your General Mills products and clip the box top. We submit them several times during the year.

Milk Caps

Kemps Nickels for School program is a great way to earn money for our school. Look for the symbol when purchasing Kemps products.

Nestle Water

Cut and save the labels from your Nestle Brand bottled water. We get credit for school equipment.

Printer Cartridges

Recycle your used inkjet printer cartridges the proper way. They collect the used cartridges several times during the year. We have many other miscellaneous programs that go on without a lot of effort by us. We will give you more information as the year progresses. Other programs are: Target Visa Card program, RADA Knives and Watkins Products.