Our board of ed sets up many accounts for our schools. Most of those accounts are in the schools SBDM. I am sure if I principal wanted she could set up a fundraiser to go through one of these accounts.
Did you have a committee to help you decide on your fundraisers?
At our school the PTO pretty much does the fundraising. The school does one fundraiser where you can order art projects the kids made in art class. They can be put on mouse pads, note cards, mugs, etc.
But other than that they don't really do any fundraising.
Yes, many schools do fundraisers where the funds go to the school and not to a parent group. Ours has gone in cycles. 10+ years ago, the school owned the fundraisers. (We have 2 sales fundraisers per year in the school, regardless who owns them.) Then, the PTO took them over. 4 years ago the district auditor told our Principal he wanted to see the school take one back and the PTO could keep one. Last year, our district set new policy saying all sales fundraisers must be owned and controlled by the school. (They want parent groups to focus more on volunteer efforts, and there have also been some financial management issues.)
Frankly, our volunteer role in the fundraisers has changed very little throughout the different models. We still help choose the fundraiser, our volunteers run it, we count the money, and distribute product.
As far as you situation, I would definitely want to work with the principal on coordinating dates and sales that don't compete.
At our school, the PTO has three fundraisers and the school hold about six+ a year! Nothing we can do and quite honestly the things they are fundraising for the PTO shouldn't have to (staff devolpment kind of stuff).
We share fundraiser ideas all the time! As a matter of fact I have a Current one I want to give to a couple teachers that have field trip expenses to cover etc.
Many members (new and returing) plain forget we need to decide of these things early, for this parent to snub you is well, her perogitive. Really, take it with a grain of salt and rock on!
Just for fun, see if you can find out how well things went, never know! Also, if this parent is to benifit from this our PTO would have to turn her away as it's against our by-laws.
hello again, new topic...I had our first PTO meeting in September and was approached by three different parents to do fundraisers...tee shirts, longerberger(sp) and another. I had already signed on in the summer to do what fundraisers we would for 2003-2004 school year.
I advised this one parent that i would place her on for 2004-2005 school year...well needless to say she was very displeased with that and told me a thing or two.
I informed the principal just in case she got any feedback. I announced at a PTO meeting that next date for our fundraiser was 2/27 to start and end 3/8...she sent home the very next day the fundraiser that this disgruntled parent had which ends 2/24..three days prior to the start of mine, let me remind you.
My question is this, are Principals allowed to do a school fundraiser while having an active PTO/PTA organization? Also, how do they do taxes and account for their monies?
This to me seems strange since I had already given her a list for the remainder of the school year as to what we had planned. I feel she just could nto say NO to a parent as usual and went ahead with this fundraiser. I asked her to write a note in her newsletter stating that the fundraiser she was doing was NOT from the PTO so when I do mine I am NOT looked upon as running them back to back. Needless to say she did not write the note in the newsletter. What can I do if anything.
