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Step
By Step Fundraising Newsletter
March 2007
To read
this newsletter online visit:
http://www.stepbystepfundraising.com/newsletter/2007/march.htm
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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