I would love to hear more about how you did your read-a-thon! We are always looking for a good fundraiser and this seems like a great one! My email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We are trying to raise funds for a playground for our school. The school is only three years old and still no playground for our children!!!
Thanks
WinfieldMom
mrhgrh;141618 wrote: We just did a read-a-thon as a second fundraiser for the year. It was done completely in house, and the kids loved it. Our goal was to raise $6,000, and we raised almost $13,000, with only $600.00 as start up costs and incentives. The kids did not have to get pledges to win something, they only had to read.There was another prize based on money donated. Since this was 100% profit, we were able to offer charitable tax donation receipts as well. A local company also donated prizes. In the future we are going to concentrate on one big read-a-thon, and drop the selling crap. It is still a "fund-raiser", but the kids loved it. The principal agreed to come to school in her pajamas if every grade met its' goal for minutes read. The kids are super excited for pajama day. We probably had 40% participation. Not bad for the second fundraiser of the year. Our school is about 350 families
Hey everybody,
Have you seen this new fundraiser were you simple shop online
and they give you rewards just for shopping online,they also will
give you $500. incentives for schools. The website is
easyfundraiseronline.com
- March Special Offers
. No more buying things you don't
really want and you get to shop were you shop anyway like
Walmart 6%, priceline3%. Its also nation wide for example if you
live in Ky and grandma lives in Tenn. she can use the website and
shop online and support the school. Well I think it was really neat
go check it out and see what you think.
We do a Penny Harvest or Change for Children twice a year and we raised almost $6000 last year. Every class has a 5 gallon water jug with the teachers name/picture on it. Pennies count + and any silver, dollars or checks count as negative money. We did run it for 5 days last year but have found 3 days is also good. this year it was kept per grade level so K can only place $ in K jugs 1st to 1st jugs etc... Kids love the competition each day! We announce a winner at the end of the day and at the end of the week the winners get a free recess and a popice. Cheap rewards! Big Results.
We just did a read-a-thon as a second fundraiser for the year. It was done completely in house, and the kids loved it. Our goal was to raise $6,000, and we raised almost $13,000, with only $600.00 as start up costs and incentives. The kids did not have to get pledges to win something, they only had to read.There was another prize based on money donated. Since this was 100% profit, we were able to offer charitable tax donation receipts as well. A local company also donated prizes. In the future we are going to concentrate on one big read-a-thon, and drop the selling crap. It is still a "fund-raiser", but the kids loved it. The principal agreed to come to school in her pajamas if every grade met its' goal for minutes read. The kids are super excited for pajama day. We probably had 40% participation. Not bad for the second fundraiser of the year. Our school is about 350 families
We do that. We went to a donation request from each family. We ask a certain $$ amount for each child. We have gotten that amount from 60% of the families. Some gave more some gave less, a few gave nothing. We did promote the Employer matching, and that has helped a lot. We also offered Sally foster as more of a service to the families, and we only got $1400 from that this year, as it was an online only and they wouldn't give us any promotional materials at all (not even to make a display), so we will be dropping them, but will have the account open in case someone wants to order. We sent out 2 flyers and only had 40 people order out of 580 kids in the school. So we may just advertise in our weekly newsletter that goes home.
So, it can work. It has for our community. We are contemplating accepting paypal as payment. (We haven't done much research as to accept this payment, but some people may contribute more if they can charge it.)
We also make sure they know it's tax deductible, and we send out a thank you letter if they donate over $250 (new IRS requirement)
