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Before Your Fundraiser Starts
- Planning meeting with your Fundraising Representative
- Set a goal
- Plan teacher's metting and kickoff assembly
- Confirm dates with the principal
- Ask for volunteers
- Create letters to parents and flyers for promotion
- Ask school office to send home a pre-sale flyer before school closes for summer, or send it home in the opening-day information packets
- Request class lists from the school office for record keeping and labeling the student sales kits. See if computerized labels can be made
- Set the start and end dates for the fundraiser
- Conduct teachers’ meeting with your fundraising company representative
- Distribute sales kits to classrooms (elementary schools)
- Select and confirm a safe, dry location for the product to be stored throughout the sale
Promote Your School Fundraiser
- Plan and create your fundraising promotions and displays
- Ask the school webmaster to place a link or banner ad on the school website so people can make fundraising contributions online
- Contact your community newspaper to publish information about your fundraiser. Be sure to provide the dates, reason(s) you’re raising money, and who to contact
During Your School Fundraiser
- Have a kickoff assembly to get students excited to sell
- Teachers send fundraising sales kits home with students
- Send home a mid-fundraiser reminder to keep the momentum going
- Use a tally sheet to keep track of products and money
- Send reminder notice of the fundraiser end date home with students
- Implement fundraising promotions for students like: top fundraiser awards, classroom competitions and teacher contests
After The Fundraiser
- Finish collecting and tallying fundraising orders
- Prepare prize orders (where applicable)
- Settle your account with your fundraising company
- Send thank-you letters telling how much money was raised and how it will be used. Keep track of the contact information and amount that your donors contributed – this list will be very useful for future fundraisers
- Distribute student fundraising prizes to teachers to give to students (where applicable)
- Have a follow-up meeting with your fundraising representative and sign up for next year’s fundraiser