Dec 29 2009 01:34 am
Posted by D Hatcher under Fundraising Ideas,Green & Healthy Fundraising,cookie dough fundraising,novel fundraising,school fundraising
Easy PTA/PTO Fundraising Ideas
There are more ways to do a school fundraiser than you can imagine.  Aim Fundraising is mostly a “product” oriented company.  But that doesn’t work for every school or every time a school needs to do a fundraiser.  Most PTA/PTO boards are always looking for profitable fundraisers.  It’s a fact that there are lots of good ones out there.  From cookie dough fundraising to Christmas wrap and Teddy Bears, the choices are wide and varied.  Here is an article by Cynthia Shoeman that adds a new twist in the mix for you.  How would you like to do a fundraisers for your school that doesn’t require your parents to spend any money.  Sounds weird doesn’t it.  You can find her article by clicking this title to her article:  Easy PTA/PTO Fundraising Ideas.  In this article you glean some very good school fund raising ideas that are especially low impact on the pocketbook of your school’s parents.  In fact, some of them might even help them save money while raising money for your school.
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Let’s look beyond sales to raise funds since the economy is in bad shape. I along with thousands of Americans can’t buy overpriced items to raise money for my kids’ school. So instead I am using http://www.mainstreetfair.com to sell many items that I don’t use anymore. Every time one of those items sells the school gets money and they donate to any school in the U.S.
John, You do make a good point. So many fundraising products are way overpriced. However, there are some exceptions. $10.00 Cookie Dough, Salsa and the I-Mark Pen Program are 3 examples of more reasonably prices programs. The other thing about product sales is that even if the items sold are “pricey,” they still raise a school much more money than the “non-traditional” online type programs. Personally I think that will probably change, but it is some years away before those numbers cross. I like the idea of these “non-traditional” school fundraising programs however. Yours seems to be a good, solid and easy to understand one. – Dan Hatcher