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Double Your School Fundraiser By Making One Simple Change

by: JuanFranco
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Education in schools has taken on a broader meaning than I remember it. Today there are a variety of events and activities that students have available to them outside of the classroom that add to their education. These things usually cost money. With cuts in school budgets, principals and PTA / PTO organizations have to turn to fundraising in order to raise the money needed for them.

It is fundraising that many consider to be like the "third rail" on a subway system. It is either viewed as the power source to make things go or it is viewed as the thing everyone wants to stay away from. However, a properly run fundraiser is a blessing for all. There really is no reason why teachers, volunteers, students, parents and the community should dread the start of the school fundraising drive. If the product is right, the incentives are worthwhile, the rewards will be enjoyed by all.

Fundraisers that are view negatively are usually ones that are done for just a small segment of the school. For instance, if you are having a school wide fundraiser that most of the money raised is used for the 5th grade field trip, 80% of the school is being left out. Unless something is done to make it worth their while, you'll have allot of unhappy kids and parents.

Have you ever wondered why some schools, while all else is equal, will have a $50,000 sale and another of the same size has a $20,000 sale? They could even be selling the same product, at the same time and still have that much difference in their sale. The answer to that is really pretty simple. It's "How" they run the sale that makes all the difference.

An example of this fact is Raymond Case Elementary in Sacramento, California. They have over 800 students and had never had a sale over $27,000. Last year, by making a change in the way they ran their sale they had over $52,000 in sales! All they did was change the way they did their fundraiser from all the years before. It wasn't the product and they didn't suddenly have a bunch of rich people move into their neighborhood. They just made a simple change in "How" they went about their fundraiser.

What was even more interesting than the jump in their fundriaser profits was that this school had always had a problem finding volunteers to help with the fundraiser. The teachers at the school had never offered their help on any aspect of their fundraiser. That year, they had to turn away teachers and parents who volunteered on delivery day because they had more than enough to handle it.

By running their fundraiser differently than they had been doing, they created a situation that made more people excited and happy to help. The result was increased moral and increased profit. It is true what Napoleon Hill once said, "You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."

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You can keep looking for the perfect product for your school fundrasing program and you can have already discovered it! It's not always that product that is holding your school fundrasing program back. The most effective place to make a change is in how you run your fundraising campaign.

Double Your School Fundraiser By Making One Simple Change

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