Step By Step Fundraising Newsletter
March 2007
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In this issue -
- 5 Ways to Simplify School Fundraising And Raise More Funds in the
Process!
- Super Fundraiser - Matching Service for Schools, Sports Teams & Youth
Groups
Dear Kwon,
This month's newsletter focus is school fundraising. Today more than
ever many children participate in several activities such as sports,
music, scouts and other extra curricular activities. Often in
addition to regular school fundraisers children and parents are
asked to fundraise for these activities as well.
For busy families, especially those with several children, doing
so many fundraisers can become taxing.
Wouldn't it be great if you could raise more money with fewer actual
fundraisers? Yes it is possible! By coordinating with other groups,
planning ahead and maximizing individual fundraising efforts your
group can get the support it needs with less effort on the part of
volunteers.
Here are five ways that school groups can actually do fewer
fundraisers and still get the funds needed to fuel its programs.
1. Integrated Programs - Encourage your school board or PTO to adopt
programs that provide additional funding through existing activities.
For example, most schools have at least one school portrait day.
When you use Picateers your school will get 50% of the sale of
portrait packages. This company offers professional photo processing,
online ordering and guidance for your local or volunteer photographers.
Parents even get to choose from multiple poses, pictures are delivered
by mail directly to the student's home and prices are in line with
other school portrait providers.
For more information on Picateers see:
http://www.stepbystepfundraising.com/adtrack/go.php?c=picateers
2. Inter School Partnerships - School departments or clubs can work
together on a fundraiser event or sale to combine efforts. This will
spread the volunteer workload out among more parents and students.
For example, a cookie dough sale could be organized by several school
clubs and each one would retain the profits from their own members'
sales.
While any two or more organizations could work together for mutual
benefit, it's even better when they are related in purpose. Since
students are often involved with more than one connected program,
such as band and choir, students simply need to sell more of this
one fundraiser rather than several fundraisers at different times
of the year.
For more information on fundraising products see:
http://www.stepbystepfundraising.com/adtrack/go.php?c=products
3. School wide events - Fall or spring carnivals are one of the
all-time classic school fundraisers. In the small town of Howe, TX
where I grew up we had a school district wide fall festival. This
much anticipated event was so much fun, I was in High School before
it dawned on me that it was a fundraiser.
Each grade sponsors its own booth or activity and individual clubs
hold their own booths. This is another way of combining forces but
on a larger scale.
4. School Grants - While grant opportunities are not always
plentiful, schools should always keep an eye out these funding
opportunities. GrantsAlert.com continually updates its list of
educational funding programs from government, corporate and
foundation sources.
Schools should also be aware of what donations are available locally.
Often locally owned businesses enjoy supporting local schools and
local outlets of national chain stores have funds that can be
distributed locally. Just ask, you may be surprised at what you
might find available.
http://www.stepbystepfundraising.com/adtrack/go.php?c=grants_alert
5. Maximize Efforts - When your group maximizes its efforts on one
fundraising activity, it will be less likely to need another
fundraiser later in the year.
Event fundraisers should always have several ways to bring in revenue.
Examples include silent auctions, raffles, advertising in programs,
food, corporate sponsors, booth rental, entry fees or souvenirs.
Create contests with prizes for volunteers who sell the most raffle
tickets, have the highest sales in a product fundraiser or otherwise
raise the most money with your campaign. Prizes can be anything from
a gift certificate, a plaque, free tickets to an event or a trip.
Alternately, offer a prize for everyone who sells a minimum number
of items.
Conclusion
By fundraising through existing activities, partnering with other
organizations and finding ways to maximize your activities, your
school group can raise more funds with fewer fundraisers.
Super Fundraiser - Matching Service for Schools, Sports Teams & Youth
Groups
This month I'm proud to announce the launch of a new sister website,
SuperFundraiser.com. Its unique system will match your school group,
sports team or other youth group with profitable fundraising programs
based on your unique needs and preferences.
All you have to do is answer a few simple questions about your group
and the Fundraising Matchmaker wizard will present 3-10 of the best
fundraising ideas for you.
Super Fundraiser recommends fundraising programs custom designed
to meet your specific needs, not just a one size fits all fundraiser."
If you are a sports team, you'll get results that are especially
designed for sports. Need to raise funds for a school wide campaign?
You'll get referrals to the best companies for that. How about YMCA,
scouts, church youth groups... yes, we've got you covered too!
Go ahead and give Super Fundraiser a try -- it's fast and easy...
http://www.stepbystepfundraising.com/adtrack/go.php?c=super_fundraiser
To your fundraising success --
Sandra Sims
Fundraising Coach,
Step By Step Fundraising
P.S. Do you have a success story or idea for school fundraising
that you'd like to share? We'd like to hear from you. Just reply to
this message with the details of the fundraiser... your group may be
included in upcoming feature articles.
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