Fundraising Tips
In addition to the fundraising tips below, please read our fundraising safety tips to ensure a safe fundraising experience.
- Set a starting date and closing date for your fundraiser. Two
weeks is an ideal time frame. Anything more than 3 weeks can be
counter-productive.
- Clearly define the reason and goals for your fundraiser.
- Assign volunteers to help run and administer the fundraiser
- especially on the day the products arrive.
- Have each participant make a list of family and friends who
may be interested in supporting your fundraising efforts.
- Promotion and word of mouth is key. Spread the word throughout
the community.
- Keep copies of all order forms for your records or for potential
tax implications.
- Triple-check all monies and orders before calling in or sending
your order to School-Fundraisers.com. Trust us, this will save you a
big headache if your orders are correct.
- Rely on your product fundraising company professional for suggestions
and advice.
- Keep copies of all forms turned in by volunteers before sending
them to the fundraising company.
- Keep your participants enthusiastic & have fun!
Additional Fundraising Tips Articles
Common Fundraising Mistakes and Tips to Avoid
Them - Sometimes in life things just don’t go the way you planned. This is
especially true with fundraisers. The logistics of organizing a fundraiser can
be overwhelming to most. Coupled with the fact that most fundraising organizers
are volunteers, so they are taking on the fundraising responsibilities on top of
their everyday life routine. And most have little prior experience with
fundraisers so they are learning on the fly. Click here to read about tips to avoiding fundraising mistakes.
Tips on Promoting a Fundraiser - As anyone who has ever run a fundraiser can tell you, the most important factor in determining the success of a fundraiser, is how well the fundraiser is promoted. Everything else can be executed perfectly, but if the fundraiser in not promoted properly, then the chances of success are slim. Fundraising organizers must use every resource available to them to get the word out to the entire community about the fundraiser. Below are essential tools in successful fundraising promotion. Click here for fundraising promotion tips.
Tips in getting media coverage for your fundraiser - So you fundraiser is up and running. Now what? Now it’s time to promote,
promote, promote! You need to do what you can to get the word out to your
community about your fundraiser. It’s great to promote your fundraiser
throughout the school, but you also must think bigger. You should develop a plan
to promote your fundraiser to your entire community, and even surrounding
communities. If your cause is worthwhile, people will want to support it. Click here to read about fundraising publicity tips.
Parent Letters Tips and Samples - Keeping parents informed about your school’s fundraising activities is a
must. There are many opportunities for a school to communicate with parents
throughout the year: parent-teacher conferences, school events, morning and
afternoon pick up, etc. But the most effective way to communicate the specifics
of a fundraiser (mission statement, selling dates, pick up dates, product
details, etc.) is through a fundraising parent letter. Click here for tips in writing fundraising parent letters.
How to develop a Fundraising Mission Statement - One of the main keys with running a successful fundraiser is getting your
message across to your supporters. There’s a reason your group is raising funds
and the reason needs to be clearly conveyed to your community. You’re likely to
get more support for your fundraising if your message is understood. That’s why
your group should develop a “Fundraising Mission Statement”. Click here for tips on developing a fundraising mission statement.
Tips For High School Fundraisers - Finding the right fundraiser for high school groups is not an easy thing to
do. Motivating a high school student to participant in a fundraiser is an even
tougher thing to do. High school fundraisers are a different animal compared to
the fundraisers run by the middle schools and elementary schools. The main
difference is that the fundraisers are not run by a parent organization such as
a PTA or PTO. Click here for high school fundraising tips.
Check out our elementary school fundraising ideas for more information about elementary school fundraisers, and don't forget to check out our fundraising ideas blog that offers hundreds of fundraising ideas on everything from running a successful coffee fundraiser to suggestions for easy youth group fundraiser.
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