Good morning. I am a fundraiser distributer for ABC Fundraising and just wanted to tell you: We offer no money up front fundraising with profit easily up to 97%. 5 products to choose from. Message me and I will send you more information.

Also when you choose to do a fundraiser you get entered into a drawing every month for Box Tops. I have numerous people who donate them to me for this purpose.

Thank you.

Brittney
ABC 4 Tennessee
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We do the same as above. We solicit donations. during our bazaar the vendors must donate items with their booth rental and then we raffle off the items during the event. Also- if your school doesn't particpate in Labels for Education and Coke Rewards sign up! They do point system and you exchange the points for items in the catalog. We use the points to buy the prizes that we use for incentives for other larger events and since it was all donated by the parents, it's a win-win and no money out of the budget. It's a great way to use those programs that don't offer you cash.

Our school usually uses the community to solicit donations and/or sponsors for our fundraisers. And, you need to switch up your approach on this...we were lucky enough to have a dad who was in marketing give us this tip...don't ask for donations!! Offer advertising opportunities to local businesses. Businesses have two budgets - one for donations and one for advertising - guess which one is bigger?? Plan out the events and/or fundraisers you are having for the year over the summer and then sell them to local businesses.
For example, we have a big kickoff event at the start of the school year where students can find out what class they have. We have businesses pay either $100 for a booth OR bring free giveaways (water bottles, pencils, crayons, etc.) to our families in exchange for being able to hand out info on their business at the event. Local karate, dance, dentist, etc. love to be able to come and $100 out of their advertising budget for access like this is nothing...but if you had just called them up and asked for $100 donation you'd get turned down 9 times out of 10.
At the same time we offered advertising on our website in exchange for a donation of a giveaway prize for our opportunity drawing which families were entered into with their participation in our school's fundraiser. So all of our "prizes" were donated by local business...we received about $6000 worth of prizes in only three weeks of putting together this event. All by selling it as an advertising opportunity rather than asking for a donation. This way we don't have to dip into our own funds to put on a fundraiser. We see it this way...every dollar we don't have to spend is another dollar we can put towards the school and the children.

What do other PTO/PTA's out there do to determine an appropriate amount to spend for fundraiser expenses? It would seem to make sense to spend a couple hundred dollars for prizes, etc. for a fundraiser that brings in $10,000 or more, but what amount is appropriate for a Box Top promotion that might bring in less than $2,000? Is there a percentage that your group defaults to, or how do you determine what you're willing to spend to execute a fundraiser?