Online Fundraising For Your School

In the world of online school fundraising there are ample opportunities to partner with traditional vendors whose goal is to raise funds for your school.  While most fundraising vendors offer to split the profits from the sale of their own goods to your families, one online fundraising program offers donations for your school from many vendors.  And they’ll give you a great website too.

The Paperless PTO is a web hosting provider that specializes in eco-friendly, fundraising websites for parent teacher organizations.  The website your PTO will receive is loaded with features that will result in a significant reduction in the amount of time it takes to organize your events and they will simultaneously guide your PTO on how to become more efficient and environmentally correct.

Some of the basic tasks your website will perform include managing your membership database, sending email announcements to one or many groups of families in your school, managing your calendar, archiving your flyers and meeting minutes and much more.  You can even accept credit card payments if you choose.

The most appealing part of the website is the fact that The Paperless PTO staff runs the online fundraising program for you.  Your PTO will benefit from the endless opportunities that internet marketing has to offer without having to work at it.  The more your families rely on your website, the more your PTO stands to gain.

Once your website is launched, its basic functions will quickly become the focal point of communication between your PTO and your families.  The online fundraising feature is built around a shopping mall that comes with your Paperless PTO website.  As your families use the mall, merchants will send donations back to your PTO based on the traffic from your website to the merchant websites.

For those families that already shop online, this becomes a simple adjustment that will benefit your PTO from the purchases that they regularly make.  For those families who may be new to the concept, it presents a new method of fundraising that is of no additional cost to anyone.

The benefits PTO’s stand to receive are very promising.  Consider the typical PTO that has a membership of 300 families covering Pre-K through 8th grade.  This represents a core group of people that will be visiting the website several times per month over a 10 year period.  The 10 year stretch actually accounts for only one student.  If the family has more students, the period goes beyond 10 years.

Repetition and familiarity are key ingredients in any kind of successful campaign.  Once you make the most out of a website that saves your PTO time, makes your PTO money and contributes to the longevity of our environment everyone wins.