Does your family have a secret recipe or a special dish that gets rave reviews everytime you serve it?

Use your specialty to benefit your charity by cooking up a batch and selling it.

It could be pans of lasagna, chocolate chip cookies, strawberry jam, or whole-wheat bread. The options are limitless.

Take orders for the item and sell it at fairs and festivals. Be sure to let people know that the proceeds are going to charity.

Check with the local Board of Health to see if you need any permits or licenses to sell a food product. Get some free publicity by writing a press release to your local paper announcing your fundraising efforts.

Read how one family used this idea to sell cheesecakes to sponsor a trip to China.