Fundraising Ideas For Schools

Using promotional items for schools

2012-03-22T11:42:00.001-07:00

Using promotional items for schools by Abraham Sherman

Schools like any business need to get the word out. Colleges promote hoping eligible students like what they see and enroll. Public schools such as High Schools also must promote to encourage enrollment. Many cities and towns have adopted policies that offer more flexibility to parents and students. Just because, the is close to home, does not mean the student has to enroll there. Schools must compete to get students, the budget is based on the number of students enrolled. Institutions that provide grant funds to schools may take into consideration the involvement in promoting itself.
Schools hold fundraisers and many times students sell promotional items banners, pens, even replicas of the school mascot. Promotional items will have the school name and possibly a short description of the school on them. Students considering changing will be exposed to the promotional items. Pens are everywhere and are used by everyone. Promotional items can be displayed anywhere. Stickers on notebooks bumpers and banners hung over doorways are continuously promoting the school. Items used daily by students, and parents will garner the most exposure.
Schools public and private alike have functions to raise money. Fundraisers are an excellent promotional tool baked goods or food can be sold at the event. Fundraisers allow the community to get to know the school and its staff. Aside from the traditional promotions, can have their own pens or notebooks, the expenditure on promotional items can show a return in enrollments.
School logos can be imprinted on virtually anything. Schools of course need to be aware of items that may not properly reflect the mission. Deciding on what items to have imprinted with the logo is important. Many schools do not allow tee shirts or shirts with logos on them to be worn in school. Therefore, any clothing with the logo on them would be targeted for sale to other than students. Coffee cups with the logo imprinted on them can be used. Schools might consider asking local diners if they might be willing to incorporate some of the cups into their inventory.
Word of mouth of course is still a promotional tool, but words are forgotten quickly. Items with the school name on them are continually reintroducing the school. Items that are used and are stored in purses and pockets such as pens or key chains are constant reminders. Banners can be hung over doorways where people will pass; the name is always in the back of someone's mind.

Online Fundraising for Schools

2012-03-21T09:50:00.003-07:00

Online Fundraising for Schools by Corbin Reynolds

Our nations school systems have been declining in their excellence over the past few years. Billions of dollars in school budget cuts have caused teachers to lose jobs, class sizes to almost double, and a large overcrowding in schools, all of which affect student's learning experiences. Schools have begun to resort to their traditional fundraising events, such as selling products door to door, but are finding them to be much less successful than in the past. The declining economy has caused many former donors to hold onto their wallets instead of support their favorite charities. Fundraisers for schools must take a different face in order for school to stay on top of their expenses.
This dilemma in school fundraising can only be fixed through very effective fundraising events. While some have found success in the traditional fundraising methods, most have not. Many nonprofit organizations, including churches, are turning their fundraising efforts to the Internet. Over $42 Billion were spent online in ecommerce last year. New school fundraising companies are giving organizations a chance to earn a tiny portion of that large $42 Billion.
This is done through services that offer schools a list of over four hundred merchants their supporters can shop from. Each time someone shops through the school at one of these merchants, the school immediately receives a small percentage of the final sale as a donation. How easy is that for a school fundraiser? School fundraising events have always been short-lived ventures, not lasting more than a week or two. This new online fundraising method can last all year round as a school fundraiser, allowing schools to earn thousands of dollars a year through fundraising.
The great part about these school fundraising programs is that some are free to sign up for. No costs up front or membership fees. Schools can simply sign up and receive benefits immediately. GivingJOE.com was the first online business to offer this school fundraiser, and they remain a free service. While many school fundraisers have failed in the past few years, a small minority has really thrived as spending has transitioned to the online world. Be sure to get involved with these services for your next school fundraising idea and start earning today!

Equity investment in nonprofits spurs returns

2012-03-20T08:05:00.000-07:00

PJ staff report | March 14, 2012

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Equity investment

Providing significant, multi-year investment in the capacity and sustainability of a nonprofit can yield social returns by increasing an organization's services and revenue, a new report says.

In one set of such "philanthropic equity investments," nonprofits' services grew 370 percent, while revenue increased 170 percent, says the report from the Nonprofit Finance Fund's NFF Capital Partners.

NFF Capital defines philanthropic equity investments as "typically significant, multi-year investments that a nonprofit organization uses on the path to sustainable growth or change."

Unlike for-profit investments, the return on such early-stage investment in a nonprofit is social rather than financial.

"At a time when nonprofits are facing an uphill battle to solve our nation's social problems, philanthropic equity allows nonprofits to build the businesses required to implement effective business models, scale impact and create lasting change," Craig Reigel, managing director of NFF Capital, says in a statement.

Since 2006, NFF Capital has supported 18 philanthropic-equity campaigns, which together have raised $326 million in investments.

And among its nine multi-year campaigns, non-philanthropic-equity revenue has increased $63 million over pre-campaign totals, indicating that greater long-term sustainability, the report says.

Revenue for these multi-year campaigns has almost tripled, the report says, with a compound annual growth rate of 32 percent.

The group's longest running campaign began in 2006 on behalf of GlobalGiving and has posted almost 15-fold growth in the programs it delivers.

With the infusion of this type of investment, the report says, "nonprofit can focus on building their organizations to better address the social problems they seek to solve."

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Online giving grows 2012-03-19T23:26:00.000-07:00 PJ staff report | March 12, 2012 0 comments Online giving Led by small and medium-sized organizations, online giving grew 13 percent in 2011, excluding online giving to international charities, a new report says. Including international giving, which surged in 2010 in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, online giving in 2011 grew only 0.3 percent, down from 35 percent in 2010, says the 2011 Online Giving Report from Blackbaud. Online giving as a share of total fundraising fell to 6.3 percent in 2011 from 7.6 percent a year earlier, a decline also attributed to the outpouring of online giving after the Haiti earthquake, says the report. The report is based on 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofits, as well as online major-giving data from 2,387 nonprofits, and both online and offline data representing $5.1 billion in total fundraising from 1,560 nonprofits. International giving was the only category of online giving that fell in 2011, with every other sector posting double-digit growth since 2009. And except for international-affairs and public-society/benefit groups, online revenue as a share of total revenue grew. Driving the growth in online giving was an increase in the number of big online gifts to nonprofits, with 87 percent of organizations receiving at least one online gift of $1,000 or more. The median online gift of $1,000 or more totaled $1,200, the biggest amount given online in the data analyzed was $260,000, and 43 percent of donations of $1,000 or more ranged from $1,000 to $5,000. End-of-year giving continued to account for most online donations, with 34.8 percent of online gifts made in October, November and December. December alone accounted for 20.3 percent of all online giving. 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Because public-charity status provides many advantages over private-foundation status, including higher tax-deductible contribution limits for donors, exemption from certain federal taxes and regulations, and less burdensome annual reporting requirements, you ideally would structure your organization as a public charity. However, you also wish to fund your organization with stock in your family-owned business. In donating assets to your own nonprofit, you should carefully consider how to classify this organization. Typically, to qualify as a public charity, an organization must either receive a third of its support from the general public, or a tenth of its support from the general public if facts and circumstances indicate the charity serves the public interest. The "general public" includes individuals, trusts or entities, but only to the extent that contributions from the donor do not comprise more than 2 percent of the organization's total support for the current and prior four years. Contributions by people in a "special relationship" with the donor, such as family members, also are included in this 2 percent limitation. Unfortunately, an organization with an endowment from a generous donor - such as you - may be unable to meet these tests. However, your organization still could receive certain favorable treatment if it qualifies as a private operating foundation. Like public charities, private operating foundations typically devote their assets and income to the active conduct of charitable operations. To qualify as an operating foundation, an organization must expend at least 85 percent of its annual income directly for the active conduct of charitable activities. These expenditures may include payments to accomplish charitable purposes, expenditures for assets used in carrying out the organization's charitable purposes, set-asides for charitable purposes approved by the IRS, and grants to individuals, but not organizations, if the nonprofit is significantly involved in active programs for which the grants were made. The nonprofit also must satisfy one of the following tests: An asset test, under which the organization must devote at least 65 percent of its assets to charitable activities.An endowment test, under which the organization must distribute at least two-thirds of its minimum investment return.A support test, under which the organization must receive 85 percent of its non-investment support from the general public, and not more than half its support from gross investment income .Although operating foundations are treated as private foundations for most purposes, they receive several important benefits from their public-charity status: Percentage deduction limitations -- Donors generally may deduct a charitable contribution to operating foundations to the same extent as to public charities, up to 50 percent of the donor's adjusted gross income, while donors to private foundations may only deduct contributions up to 30 percent of the donor's adjusted gross income. Minimum distribution requirements -- A private foundation must distribute at least 5 percent of its investment assets annually in order to avoid a tax on undistributed income. However, in some cases, it may not be practical for nonprofits with largely illiquid endowments to distribute this percentage of assets annually as a way of meeting that requirement. A nonprofit funded solely with a closely-held business interest, for example, may not want to distribute stock to an outsider, a move that could give an outsider an ownership interest and possible voting authority in the business. Operating foundations are not subject to this minimum distribution requirement or the related tax. Receipt of qualifying distributions -- Private foundations may satisfy their annual minimum distribution requirement by making distributions for exempt functions or to certain nonprofits such as operating foundations. 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Contact/Staff | Sitemap | Privacy Policy | Copyright Institute for Nonprofits at NC State University View the Original article Henderson County funder sparks teamwork 2012-03-19T09:54:00.001-07:00 Ret Boney | March 19, 2012 0 comments McCray Benson HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- When western North Carolina's largest mental-health care provider folded in 2006, it left a void in the community that went beyond its own doors. Emergency-assistance groups like the Hendersonville Rescue Mission, Blue Ridge Community Health and Mainstay Domestic Violence Center, which had referred clients with mental-health needs to Western Mental Health, were left to look for help for these clients on their own. It was a time-consuming task that both diverted them from their mission and required skills outside their core expertise. When the recession arrived two years later, and demand for emergency-assistance services grew, so did the need for mental-health support. Seeing that need, the Community Foundation of Henderson County last year provided grants of more than $100,000 to fund collaboration among local human-services agencies. The goal, says McCray Benson, president and CEO of the foundation, was to find out how those organizations "could work together to deal with the needs they have, but also get back to the core services they provide helping all people who need emergency assistance." Working together, the groups evaluated their needs and recommended that a portion of the funds be used to hire professional caseworkers who now handle the care of clients with mental-health needs. Only six months old, the effort has no formal data yet, but Benson says anecdotal feedback is positive. "This will help them serve more efficiently and effectively the populations they are trying to serve," he says of the collaborating agencies. That has been the case for the Hendersonville Rescue Mission, whose homeless shelters take in almost 1,500 people a year, many of whom struggle with mental-health issues, says Tim Jones, the group's director of operations. "Before, you could almost pay a full-time staffer to keep up with the weekly changes in the mental-health-care system," says Jones. "Now we can focus on what we do, which is feeding, sheltering and helping people find jobs." In the first few months of the new program, about 70 of the rescue mission's residents have seen one of the two mental-health therapists who come to the shelter to see patients. "This program is probably one of the most creative solutions to a problem we've seen in a while," says Jones. At almost half the foundation's total for unrestricted grantmaking of $200,000 to $250,000 a year, the foundation's flexible investment in the collaboration is significant, and it's telling of the funder's commitment. For the Hendersonville-based community foundation, about 10 percent of its grants are unrestricted, mirroring the share of its $78.1 million in assets not held in funds earmarked for specific purposes. And with those unrestricted funds, Benson aims to have the greatest impact possible. "When flexible, the charitable dollar goes a lot further," he says. Given the strain the recession has placed on the local community, and on the nonprofits serving that community, flexibility has become even more important. With that in mind, the foundation during the recession invested about $80,000 over two years in the needs of local organizations address growing basic needs throughout the county. The effort convened heads of local safety-net organizations monthly - including the Department of Social Services and the Salvation Army - who discussed local needs and could tap into the pool of funds to address them. The money, which matched federal stimulus dollars, came from the foundation's unrestricted grantmaking pool, along with contributions from broad-missioned donor-advised funds and directly from concerned individuals. And although the effort was time-limited, the collaborative nature didn't end when the money stopped, says Benson, noting that core members of that group still meet occasionally to keep on top of community needs. Recession had an impact on the foundation as well. The market crash left about 10 percent of the foundation's 480 funds "underwater," or at a lower value than the original purchase price of the assets, such as stock, that were donated to the fund., So the foundation temporarily halted grantmaking from those funds. The result was a drop in overall grantmaking to about $1.9 million in 2009 from a high of almost $3 million in 2007. The foundation also felt the impact of the recession as gifts to the funder slowed. "People are cautious and aren't sure what the future holds," says Benson. "There's a bit of a delay in some of the decision-making in whether to give because donors aren't sure if they're really seeing a light at the end of the tunnel." But things have begun to look up, he says. By the end of fiscal 2011, only four funds remained frozen, gifts had begun to come in again and grantmaking was back up to $2.4 million for the year. An advantage of the community foundation, says Benson, is that generous donors were able to step up to make larger distributions from their donor-advised funds than they had in the past. "That helped the community and helped donors pace their giving so that in a year they couldn't personally give, they had donor-advised funds to give from," he says. "People become heartbroken when they feel there's not enough help and they step forward regularly to help." Looking ahead, Benson says the challenge in the community is shifting from short-term to long-term assistance needs and in "adjusting to economic change." With the same number of people over age 65 as under age 21, and with the majority of residents born elsewhere, Henderson County is unusual, he says. Luckily, the community "adopts newcomers very quickly," he says, and those transplants in turn adopt the community as their own. And that's an advantage as the foundation helps the county navigate changes in public-funding streams, population shifts and the loss of textile and furniture manufacturing jobs. The "value-add" for the foundation in such an environment, says Benson, goes beyond just grantmaking. "It means convening, helping by being a partner in the community as we find solutions to community problems," he says. "There are a lot of folks looking at what's next on the horizon. Community foundations are a good place for a lot of that to come together." 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Contact/Staff | Sitemap | Privacy Policy | Copyright Institute for Nonprofits at NC State University View the Original article Fundraising Websites updated Fri Mar 2 2012 10:07 am EST 2012-03-16T05:01:00.001-07:00 Fundraising Websites Log In Explore Topics Join Us Go Squidoo Close Home » Nonprofits » Fundraising » Other Fundraising Topics Fundraising Websites Like 4 RSS Pin It Ranked #76 in Nonprofits, #17,634 overall | Donates to Diabetes Research Institute The Best Online Fundraising Sites Online fundraisers have to battle through a mine-field of online fundraising options. Sites vary significantly. Some are only open to nonprofits, others prefer creative projects and some only pay out if you reach a certain threshold. Will all the different options and confusion out there, this guide is designed to help you select the right fundraising site for YOUR specific needs. So without further adieu, lets check these out! Contents at a Glance Contents 1. Go Get Funding 2. GoFundMe 3. IndieGoGo 4. Kickstarter 5. Razoo More Contents at a Glance Contents 1. Go Get Funding 2. GoFundMe 3. IndieGoGo 4. Kickstarter 5. Razoo 6. Fundly 7. Crowdrise 8. ChipIn.com Other options... Things I Looked At Round up Your Amazing And Useful Comments Less Contents Feel free to jump to a section... 1. Go Get Funding2. GoFundMe3. IndieGoGo4. Kickstarter5. Razoo6. Fundly7. Crowdrise8. ChipIn.comOther options...Things I Looked AtRound upYour Amazing And Useful Comments 1. Go Get Funding Raise money for anything, great social features Summary: Go Get Funding is my favorite fundraising website because it looks slick, it's easy to use, has low fees and great social features. You keep all of the money you raise and funds are sent to your nominated PayPal account once you hit your target or once your project expires (depends on how you set it up). Fundraisers accepted: Everything. Fees: 2% on the total amount raised + PayPal fees 2. GoFundMe Nice interface - easy to use Summary: Despite sounding cunningly similar to Go Get Funding, GoFundMe is actually pretty different. You create your own fundraising page and any money that gets pledged is transferred straight to your PayPal account. Fundraisers are un-timed and you can link you page with your Facebook account. Fundraisers accepted: Everything Fees: 5% on each donation + PayPal or WePay fees 3. IndieGoGo Well established Summary: IndieGoGo is a well-established crowdfunding site that has a nice, clean look about it. It's easy to use a notable feature is its varying fees if you don't hit your fundraising target. You can choose between a 'Keep-it-all' or 'All-or-nothing' funding method. Fundraisers accepted: Everything Fees: 4% fee is you reach your fundraising target and 9% if you don't. Payment processors charge an additional fee of around 3%. 4. Kickstarter Creative fundraisers Summary: Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects. Your idea needs to be pre-approved before getting on Kickstarter and you're required to offer rewards in exchange for pledges. The site operates an 'All-or-nothing' funding method. Fundraisers accepted: Creative projects Fees: 5% on successful projects. You also need to take Amazon processing fees into account which are 3-5%. 5. Razoo Just for nonprofits Summary: Razoo allows registered non-profits that are in their database to create a fundraising page. It has a nice interface and a good range of features aimed at corporations. Fundraisers accepted: Nonprofits Fees: 2.9% on the amount you raise 6. Fundly All about social Summary: Fundly is another site that lets you create a fundraising page that's tightly integrated into your social networks. Fundraising pages look a little too integrate with Facebook as you can't do much without it being posted on your Facebook profile - not something everyone may like. Fundraisers accepted: Everything Fees: 4.9% transaction fee or a number of monthly subscription plans for regular fundraisers 7. Crowdrise Centered around charities Summary: Crowdrise was founded by actor and philanthropist Edward Norton and the site works hard to try and keep members engaged. You earn points by donating on the site and having people vote for you and many claim that the site actually has a pretty good sense of humor! Fundraisers accepted: Crowdrise lets you raise money for many different things but it's mostly centered around charities. Fees: 5% of all donations, plus a $1 transaction fee for donations under $25 and a $2.50 transaction fee for donations $25 and over, which works out to around ~7.5%-9% depending on how much a person gives. 8. ChipIn.com Summary: If you only want a fundraising widget that you can embed on your blog, check out ChipIn. it's easy to use is a nice alternative to a PayPal donate button. Fundraisers accepted: Everything Fees: PayPal is used to accept donations so you'll pay the standard 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. Other options... Now that we've covered eight of the top options out there, here are additional fundraising / crowdfunding sites with a briefer description that you might also find useful: Spot.us Funding for citizen journalism First Giving Fundraising for nonprofits Donors Choose A platform where teachers solicit funding for specific needs in the classroom and schools Rockethub Crowdfunding creativity Sonic Angel Raise money for music Appbackr Fund mobile applications Start Some Good Platform for social good initiatives Pozible Australian crowdfunding site for creative projects Quirky A platform for product designers and inventors Micro Ventures Connecting investors and startups Things I Looked At ...and what you should check out too! What fundraisers are acceptedFees chargedPayment gatewaysLook and feelArray of featuresIf the site has an existing donor poolAnd anything else that is specific to your fundraiser... Round up I hope you found the right fundraising site for you and I wish you all the best in raising the money you need. If you feel that any other fundraising site should be in this list, feel free to pop me a message! Oh, and if you liked this lens, please do leave me a lovely little comment or link to this page :) All revenue generated by this page is donated to charity. Your Amazing And Useful Comments submit Show All Share this Guestbook Stumbleupon Facebook MySpace Twitter Digg Delicious RSS Email Like 4 RSS Pin It by thefundraiser Hello world. This is my quick bio! I'm an active fundraiser and sporadic philanthropist (until my financial situation permits otherwise). I'll mainl... more » 1 featured lens Winner of 2 trophies! Top lens » Fundraising Websites Feeling creative? Create a Lens! 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