We've done Jump Rope for Heart every year, but our former PE teacher was always insistant on setting a maximum collection from any one student (I don't remember if it was $25 or $50). She ran the program and also emphasized that participation was optional and no one had to donate anything. It seems like the max prizes available for us were the jump rope for participating and a T-Shirt for whatever that level she set was.
I never knew the reason behind it but guessed she wanted to keep it tied to PE and retain the spirit of giving without turning it into a big fundraising campaign.
I believe the pre-printed brochures mentioned a lot more prize levels and stuff. But every piece of paper that came home had her limit reminder written on it. If someone collected more donations than the limit, I think the T-shirt was still the only thing they got.
We have a new PE teacher this year and I didn't notice how it was handled this time.
It's a popular event, so we've never had a problem.
The negative feedback had to do with the fact that AHA offers prizes for the students based on the money raised, as well as corporations getting involved in schools. Ours is a joint effort as well, with the PE department running the event and the PTA supplying volunteers to help and then collect the pledges to give to AHA. It's also low pressure and totally optional, so I guess I was surprised by the fact that there was this objection. We've never done anything like this, so I'm interested to see how it goes, and just curious about other experiences with this kind of event.
We've done either that or Hoops for Heart for several years; I'm not aware of any negative feedback, so I'd like to know what you're getting, too. The school (i.e. the PE dept.)actually runs it, rather than the parent group, although we certainly help provide the volunteers for it. It's very low pressure, and I don't know what the participation rate is. I do know it's been unusual for any one student to bring in more than $50. They really stress the education component of it rather than the fundraising, I think.
Yes, we just recently participated in this project. Our PE teacher organized it rather than the PTO, but she was pleasantly surprised at
the response. Our school goal was to raise $1500,and I think we hit $3400. What kind of negative reactions are you getting?
Hi, all,
Has anyone held a "Jump for Heart" event at their school? How was it received? We as a PTA are helping with this event (along with our PE teacher), but are getting some interesting negative feedback.
