School fundraising prize programs are designed to motivate students to get out and sell. Once your audience learns about the prizes at your fundraiser kickoff, they become excited and can’t wait to arrive home, talk to their parents about the sale and start selling. At least this is what you and your fundraising company are hoping for.
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Planning a Fundraiser
There are many things that fundraising coordinators need to consider when planning a fundraiser. Find out what should go into preparing for a sale
The most popular brochure fundraisers are the large variety shoppers that contain a wide variety of gift items, candles, jewelry candy and wrapping paper.
Last time we talked about the advantages of using a Big Event Prize Program compared to a more traditional prize plan with a school fundraiser. We also talked about how to determine ahead of time how you know whether or not your school will qualify for a free event. However, what happens if your school has to contend with the following situations?
There are basically 2 things to consider if you want to know how prize programs work and how students are rewarded for their school fundraiser sales:
1. How Students Are Rewarded:
- Dollar Amount Sold
- Items Sold
2. How Prizes Are Won:
Scratch card fundraisers can be a quick and easy way to make money for your organization. However, like with any other sale, you will want to ensure that everyone fully understands the process. What follows is what we provide to fundraising groups who choose to sell our scratch cards:
This sounds like a loaded question as choosing how to handle it may be obvious to some but not to others. There are many school fundraising groups out there that debate what to do about personal checks. The easy answer is to choose not to accept them but controlling the influx of personal checks can be difficult.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand the need for school fundraisers. School districts have never been able to fully cover additional needs like computers, school marquees or field trips with conventional funding. Add in the prevalence of budget cuts and the need for fundraising has never been greater. At the same time, we all know that fundraisers have long been nicknamed ‘the necessary evil’, but why is that?
Most people understand that school fundraisers are necessary; however many don’t realize that for their sale to succeed they must invest their time, and in some cases even their money. After all, you are only going to get out what you put in.
Aren’t you somewhat annoyed when your child comes home from their first day of school and you look inside their backpack and in addition to all of the school papers that must be signed there is a student fundraising packet? After all, you haven’t even gotten settled back into the school routine yet and the school is already pushing their fundraiser.
There are many school fundraising groups that feel that scheduling additional fundraisers will bring in more money. Even when fundraiser organizations plan ahead and spread several sales out over the course of the school year, is this always a good strategy? In other words, can schools still reach their fundraising goals with fewer fundraisers rather than more?