Gone are the days in most cities and towns across America when kids were sent knocking on people’s doors trying to sell folks items for a fundraiser. Let’s face it, schools, churches, sports and all the other non-profit groups, they all desperately need money and fundraising can be a lucrative way to get it.
Unfortunately in today’s world it isn’t necessarily safe for our children to go around the neighborhoods anymore. Most fundraisers specifically request that the kids do not go door to door anymore, they tell you to have family, co-workers and close family friends help in supporting the organization.
With having two kids I have done my fair share of fundraising and I certainly will still participate when I can. It was a lot easier when members of my immediate family were all living pretty close to each other, now a days everyone is spread out all over the darn country so that puts a damper on using them as a resource, for the most part.
I ran across a really cool fundraising program on the Web called Schoolpop.com and I am going to contact our elementary school and see if they would be interested in participating in this non-traditional school fundraiser opportunity.
By using Schoolpop, you can pay down your tuition and any extracurricular activity costs, it can assist in paying back student loans for college and help your school earn monies, all year round by shopping at the several hundred listed of name -brand merchants and service providers whether it be online, in stores, catalogs purchases, even with gift cards or with the Schoolpop Visa credit card.
You can apply for the Schoolpop Visa credit card right on line! Every purchase that you make for your groceries, gas, clothing, movies, restaurants – it contributes 1% to the student’s school.
It sounds like Schoolpop may be a way to raise money that would/should be embraced by our school and the families, we shall see when I call them this week. I’ll also call my sister who has a son in a very nice private school and see if she would be interested in learning a cool and easy way to raise money for private schools along with us in the public school system.
If I recall correctly, where my kids went to school, they used Schoolpop fund raising in addition to selling gift wrap, candy, tulips, etc