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School Fundraising for a Capital Project
If you are looking to fundraise for a large project, you will need to
plan a structured approach, to ensure the best possible chance of
reaching your funding goal.
You will do well to consider requests for funding to:-
Raising such a large sum of money can take several months or even
longer - try and get together a group who can work together and
support each other as you work towards your goal.
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Easy Ways To Make Money Through School Fund Raising
By Peter Crump
Did you know that school fund raising brings big business to many
companies? This is because schools purchase the supplies they need for
fund raising in large quantities. The company can easily give a discount
because they sell a lot of products at one time. School fund raising is also
becoming an important part of school life because it offers schools different
ways of fundraising the money they need for the equipment and trips.
Schools are constantly on the lookout for fundraising ideas for their next
school fund raiser. They have to be creative to come up with unique ideas so
that people will attend the fund raiser and contribute to the cause. Every
season of the year brings school fund raising events and some are easier
for coming up with fundraising ideas than others.
Halloween, for example, provides schools with fund raising ideas in the form
of a haunted house or a costume ball. This type of school fund raiser needs
a lot of volunteers and is best for middle schools and high schools. An idea
for an elementary school fund raiser for Halloween could include a
Halloween party where the children have an opportunity to take part in
games where they win prizes.
Quite often school fund raising takes the form of selling items that people
need or want to buy. Selling chocolate at Easter, for example, always goes
over well as a school fund raiser. Instead of purchasing large amounts of
chocolate in hopes it will sell, most schools take orders. The company
supplying the chocolate for the fund raiser offers a discounted price along
with specials for orders of a certain quantity. They also supply prizes if the
school wishes to award prizes for the person who sells the most.
Read-a-thons are a specialty for school fund raising. Parents avidly support
this type of school fund raiser as it does promote a school activity while
raising funds for other programs. Students really get into this type of fund
raiser as they compete with the other classes in the school. The principal
sometimes sweetens the pot by offering an incentive for the success of the
fund raiser, such as offering to shave his beard or come to school dressed
in pyjamas.
School fund raising is a competitive field, and needs some good ideas.
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Create a Strategy
Do ensure that you create a team to work towards your final goal.
Set in place a strategy and make it clear where responsibilities lie. For
example, who is in charge of publicity; who is contacting local businesses
and who is running the project on the ground, working with builders,
architects and planners.
