I am our president. I was reading on here about some PTO/PTA's dropping Campbell's so I decided to investigate how our program was doing. After getting with the organizers of it and getting expenditures from that program for last year I found that we are LOSING over $300 on this fundraiser. So, I called the executive board, principals of the 4 schools, the superintendent, etc and got everyone's ideas about if we should continue this program. All thoughts led to no. So instead of spending the time and money to kick it off and then have a meeting middle of October and end up cancelling it anyway...we went ahead and cancelled it and included it in the Welcome Newsletter that I issue the beginning of the year. I started getting calls yesterday that there are people mad about us dropping it! Dang, now I have to go into a meeting next week and deal with a bunch of complaining and I was only trying to do what is best for this organization. The thing is, we had 2 organizers that spent 40+ hours a piece, 24 volunteers cutting, counting and bundling 35,000+ labels and then to LOSE money? What is wrong with this picture?
What does everyone else think?
I am so torn! I know that I have parents that want to help and that is something that they can do from home to help and just send the counted, bundled, cut labels back in the book bags and they like that but why waste volunteer time and our money to not come out ahead?