We give teachers $4 per student that can be used for these events. Our highest grade is 5th. This year they are helping with our Box Tops program and will receive 50% of our earnings for their field trip.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
We will be kicking off our magazine drive in a couple of days. The biggest incentive is the "Mega Event" with games etc. However, it is not "cool" for 8th graders to attend so to incent the 8th graders we give them a percentage of their sales to be used for the 8th grade trip. It has worked quite well for us.
First what does your mission statement say, ours is geared to helping ALL students. I am not sure if you have the access to your school newsletter or something like that but i would write a nice article on how your group decided that you would cit back on fundraisers in order so your families aren't always being hit up. Also explain that by cutting back sales you needed to look at projects that help all students and equal them out. Make sure to thank you families for support, and keep your head up high just because it was always done that way doesnt mean it always has to! Are the parents complaining involved in your group at all??
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
Does anyone give money from their fundraiser to a class to benefit their class trip, or does the class raise their money by themselves? In past years our PTL gave 80% of our candy drive to help with the cost of the 8th grade trip. When this happened we had many fundraising opportunities through out the year and was overwhelmed with fundraisers. Our PTL in the past two years, has taken away all old fundraisers and began a new and different approach. We have two major fundraisers: A Walk-a-thon in September and a Flower Sale in May. Both were very successful last year. But being a new board and not having much information on the old fundraisers except that they were alot of work and we did not make much profit, we took away the 8th percentage. Well we became that GROUP that did not help the 8th grader make enough money for their trip. All because we did not give them the 80% of the walk-a-thon money. The 8th grade class only brought in about 100.00 from our outstanding profit of around 11,500.00. How do you explain to the 8th grade parents, that we have given them more opportunities to do their own fundraising as a class by doing only two fundraisers instead of 6.
Help!!!! :eek:
