choose fundraisers that dont have the junk incentives, and offer your own one, school-wide , as noted above .
put a graph up in the hallway to follow sales etc, by class, to make everyone feel part of the event, whether they pareticipate or not.
rewards are never the reason one should do anything, its the process that should be the reward in itself. and if the process isnt rewarding enough, then its probably not a good process, or fundrasier to start with.
We are sort of 1/2 & 1/2. We give all classes an ice-cream party, but we also give top seller in each class & 2 school wide top seller prizes. The class top seller prize is offered by the company & we do the school wide one. This year's prize is significantly scaled back from previous years, for this reason. We felt like all the extra stuff really wasn't encouraging the kids to sell more. We are parents- so we know that it is the parents that do the selling-especially w/ the younger kids. All the kids that sell get, of course, the "junk" offered by the company. You all know the "junk" I'm talking about-the pen that lights up, the bouncy balls, etc. I'm actually thinking about what we can do for the teachers for all of the extra work THEY have had to do for this thing!
I'll chime in here to also agree with CC. The reward of a fundraiser should be the end result ... reason you are fundraising not the reward for who sold the most etc. If you offer a reward include all. I know it's frustrating to have the same ones time after time not participate but I prefer to look at fundraising as a volunteer effort and you can't punish the kids for the parents decision not to fundraise.
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I'm in the minority, I think, but I applaud your superintendent's position on this issue. I don't appreciate reward systems that essentially reward the students for the parents' work.
My last school set a school wide fundraising goal. If the goal was met, all of the students recieved a treat. One year it was a can of soda (or other canned drink - lemonade, hawaiian punch, etc) that was distributed at lunch time. Last year we had a sno-cone day in the spring to reward the school for meeting the goal. Every student recieved a sno-cone.
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Our superintendent is stating that we are not allowed to have fundraiser participants do an activity as to exclude those who do not participate. How has your group encouraged participation in the fundraisers without excluding those who do not participate? Any and all ideas are welcomed. Thank you.
