| A school fundraising activity is always a great idea to | | | | fundraising concept referred to as Schoolpop. |
| help your school raise the money that it needs with | | | | A supporter simply has to shop at participating online |
| the help and participation of the whole community. It | | | | stores to make money for your school. Every time |
| is also an excellent way for students to understand | | | | they make a purchase online, a certain percentage of |
| the value of money and to learn that hard work | | | | the total cost will be rebated back to the school. One |
| pays off. With so many fundraisers happening all | | | | fundraising idea that would surely encourage |
| around, what would differentiate your fundraiser and | | | | community participation is a community business |
| make it stand out from the rest? What would make | | | | bazaar. Invite parents and other community members |
| people choose to support your cause? What | | | | to feature their businesses in a school bazaar. This will |
| fundraising activities will be mutually beneficial to both | | | | allow them to promote their products and services |
| your school and to those prospective financial | | | | to the entire community. The participants will be |
| supporters? These are some important questions | | | | assigned to their own booths and the school can |
| that you need to ask yourself before actually | | | | charge a rental fee for each booth. Furthermore, |
| deciding on what fundraising activity to have. Once | | | | they can charge entrance fees for those who want |
| you have answered them, you can then move on to | | | | to check out the local community wares. Auctioning |
| deciding what type of fundraiser will most likely work | | | | services or talents of students or local community |
| for your school. To help you with that, here are | | | | members is another brilliant way to raise funds for |
| some school fundraising activities you can choose | | | | your school. Come up with a list of participants and |
| from. One of the latest and most innovative school | | | | the corresponding talents that they have or services |
| fundraising activities nowadays is Scrips. It is the use | | | | that they would render and organize an auction night. |
| of paper as a substitute for money. This concept has | | | | For example, a student can donate a six-hour |
| actually been around for ages but it has only been | | | | babysitting service to the school for free. The school |
| utilized for fundraisers just recently. What happens is | | | | will auction this service off to the highest bidder and |
| that during a fundraiser, the school would sell Scrips | | | | will earn the cost of the bid. Lastly, you can always |
| that they bought at a discount. For example, they | | | | choose the safe route and go with some tried and |
| would sell a $50-worth Scrip for the local grocer that | | | | tested fundraising ideas. These include bake sales, |
| they only bought for $45 to a community member. | | | | garage sales, community car washes, ticket raffles, |
| The local grocer is promoted, the fundraiser makes | | | | movie premieres or special screenings, talent shows, |
| money, and the supporter purchases something that | | | | quiz bees and the like. |
| he can actually use. A similar concept to Scrips is a | | | | |