Bringing Fundraising Back In-house - A $13,000 School Success

Bringing Fundraising Back In-house - A $13,000 School Success

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October 28, 2008 - How do you spell success? Well the students of the Wyman School spelled it 30 different ways! On October 10th, the Wyman School of Massachusetts held a PTO Ideas' Educational Challenge fundraiser and this 200-student, public school raised just over $13,000 in about 2 weeks.

How did they do this? Students collected pledges for each correctly-spelled word on a spelling test. A simple concept with a dramatic outcome!

A fundraising committee of ten parent volunteers armed with the PTO Ideas ebook titled Budget Bashes: The Ultimate Educational Challenge were the keys to this fundraising success story. PTO Ideas is a web-based Massachusetts company dedicated to helping schools build a better parent-teacher organization. It has brought fundraising back into the schools by explaining to parent organizations exactly how to plan an event in-house, rather than rely on outside vendors. From advertising, promotion, and fun games to motivate the students, right down to the administrative details, this ebook is unique and informative!

We are in difficult economic times and fundraising is becoming increasingly more difficult. Schools need to take a hard look at what they are offering and what the return expectations are of the school families and community.

Like many schools, the Wyman ran a gift wrap fundraiser every Fall for as long as they can remember. This year, however, they wanted to try something different. Something that allowed them to hold onto the majority of the money donated by their sponsors.

This PTO Ideas Educational Challenge fundraiser was an enormous success because it involved the students, was academically based, was fun for the kids, offered a tax-deducton benefit to the sponsors, and had minimal expenses. Expenses were only about $285. That meant that 98% of the money collected went directly to the school.

In addition to the more than 600 individual sponsors secured by 170 students, fifteen local business stepped forward and sponsored the classrooms. The key to obtaining so many individual sponsors was understanding how to motivate and excite the students to drive the event. And, the key to gaining corporate support was that the school only asked for very small dollar amounts of $30 and $60.

Products offered by outside fundraising companies offer a quick and easy profit and are still recommended; but when combined with a creative, educational fundraiser like this Educational Challenge that's planned in-house, the total package can make for a much more successful fundraising plan and many more satisfied parents!

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