Seriously consider the Fun Money fundraising program. It can raise a bunch of money in short time and make everyone participating happy.
My son's hockey team ordered 30 of the 15 scratch cards (got six more free). We then got a local restaurant to let us print up 540 BOGO coupons (one for each scratch) that expired in 4 months.
We did a list of family/friends/neighbors in our areas and got those cards scratched right away. Then we set up at a couple of grocery stores 4-7pm weekdays and 11-5 weekends.
I didn't get the total for the team but my 8 and 11 year olds each did over $550 in less than 3 weeks. I figured it averaged about $35-$40 per hour. We made over 100% profit because of donations. Many people would scratch a $3 or $4 and just give a $5 and let them keep the change.
The restaurant coupon value was up to $8.00 so everyone was happy: the restaurant got some free advertising, the donors got more in value than they donated (they got a coupon for each scratch so many would scratch more than one), and the team made big bucks fast. It was really great.
Here is the website for Fun Money:
http://www.fundraisingthatworks.org/FunMoney.html