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A tree falls in the woods, but nobody knows about it.

Does that tree sell enough cookie dough for Sticky Pinecone High to build a new log cabin gymnasium?  Probably not.

Does this metaphor even make sense? Tough call, but if nobody knows about something, then not a lot can get done.

There are tons of great high school fundraising ideas – candy, bake sales, barbecues (people are hungry), online donation pages, Facebook groups, and the list goes on. But the extra special ingredient in any high school fundraising campaign is…wait for it…no, not love. It’s PROMOTION! You can’t raise any funds if you don’t raise awareness. If people don’t know about you, how are they supposed to give you their money? (The other special ingredient in any fundraising campaign.)

Luckily promoting your school fundraiser is as easy as the pies you might possibly be selling. Local and online promotions can help spread the word fast so your school can finally get that gold-plated David Beckham monument for your soccer field.

A Parent Letter: First, send out a letter to parents outlining the goals, logistics and anything else regarding your high school’s fundraiser. Make it snazzy or make it bland, just fill them in! Families are essential in spreading the message across your community. You know how your parents seem to know every other adult there is until it dawns on you that they might be part of some secret cult in cell phone clips and pocketless jeans? Tap into that resource.

A Kick Off Rally: If your school’s fundraiser is running for multiple days, hold a ‘kick-off rally’ on the first day to gather volunteers and pump them up. They’re your troops! So rally them together by getting them excited and enthusiastic about the cause.

Daily Announcements: Hijack the morning announcements and pimp your cause to the whole school. Kids have short attention spans these days, what with their cellular telephones and MTV (get off my lawn!) – a daily reminder can’t hurt. After all, a high school fundraising campaign has a lot better chance with the whole school behind it.

Newsletters: Newsletters are great because they give you access to the secret world of promotional DOMINATION: online! With newsletters come email lists and a whole slew of potential donors that are connected to your cause. Be it your own school’s newsletter or the charity they’re affiliating with, get a story featured about your fundraiser and reach out to the people it connects you with.

And now that you’re online, stay there: Unless you’d rather NOT get the maximum amount of return for the smallest amount of effort. In which case, carry on baking cookies and going door-to-door.

Local offline fundraising efforts are great as part of an overall campaign and experiencing the blood, sweat and tears of raising money for a good cause (try not to get any of that on the cookies). But in order to reach the most people and create the biggest impact, online is where the money is. In terms of awareness alone, Facebook and Twitter allow to you to reach tons of people with just one click – not to mention their friends, and friends of friends, that they can share with. And considering every teenager (and their mom) on the planet has at least one social media account, it’s a booming resource for any high school fundraiser to take advantage of.

So while selling magazines or holding a bake sale as part of your high school fundraising campaign is all well and good, launching an online element where people can directly donate to your cause is a no-brainer. Because whether you’re trying to raise money for a Starbucks in your cafeteria or something a tad more meaningful, the operative word in fundraising is funds, and the easiest and most effective way to get them is through an online campaign. It offers high volume promotion and easy fundraising in one – which is a well-deserved reward for all that energy spent on poster hanging and kick off rallies.

 

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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:43:00 -0700 High School Fundraising Ideas That Help Schools Fundraise Online http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/high-school-fundraising-ideas-that-help-schoo http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/high-school-fundraising-ideas-that-help-schoo

Everyone who has ever gone to high school has had to at one point or another, come up with creative high school fundraising ideas. Many of these ideas were something that had worked previously for students in either junior high or middle school. Many high school fundraising ideas have roots as ideas that were previously used as successful fundraising ideas during previous years.

Most of these fundraising ideas are pretty simple are considered time honored ways to raise money for a school. These high school fundraising ideas are usually limited to running something like a bake sale or even trying to sell holiday themed wrapping paper for money. For those that go as far as trying to raise money in these ways, you still run into a fair amount of problems that plague most high school fundraisers.

What most people in high school run into when they are trying to think up a good high school fundraising ideas, is how they can market their cause effectively. Most people run into the problem that they are limited by either the other students in their high school that they are trying to sell to, or by the people that they know in their circle of friends. If your entire circle of friends is also trying to raise money doing the same thing as you, this can start to run into a problem. Also, if you try and market your high school fundraiser to all of the other people you know you may get a response, just not a very strong one.

High School fundraising campaigns have slowly turned to the web, as it increasingly gains in popularity. This popularity was mostly due to the fact that the Internet started to be center stage in the lives of people who either use it as a social nerve or as a contact medium for any number of people. Using things channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become a standard for both getting your message about your high school’s fundraisers out there. It also works as a very effective fundraising tool that will minimize your time and effort that goes into trying to raise money for your cause.

Another reason the Internet is so great for getting your message out about your fundraiser is because it increases your causes’ exposure. With traditional fundraisers, they were kept as close to home as humanly possible so that you would not have to go very far while you were involved in fundraising. However, with the advent of the web it has made it much easier to describe your fundraiser as well as send the message about your high schools fundraisers all across the world. This will also help you reach people who may have interests that are extremely similar to your fundraisers but are not geographically nearby you.

In closing, there are many different high school fundraising ideas for high school fundraisers out there. However, the only thing that is limiting you in the amount of exposure your fundraiser has to both the outside world but also to the community around you. It would be a very good idea to explore all your options of fundraising online while you have such an easy and rewarding opportunity to do so.

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Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:59:00 -0700 Online High School Fundraising Ideas http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/online-high-school-fundraising-ideas http://fundraisingonline.posterous.com/online-high-school-fundraising-ideas
With online high school fundraisers, you can create one or multiple campaigns using just one website account that offers free registration, and requires payment only for the donation processing. With piryx.com, you can share and communicate the importance of your cause to a larger group of people through email, and with the use of web and mobile applications that are provided by your social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace. The parents, pupils, and even the donors themselves actively participate in sharing the cause with web links and other widgets.

Using Piryx is as easy as signing up for an email account. You can create as many fundraising pages as you like with just one account. After creating your online high school fundraiser, you can easily link your page or post it to your social networking sites. You can also share the links and thus, increase the chances of spreading your cause to thousands, even millions of people online. The best part about using Piryx is that you can track your progress with just the click of a mouse. You can gather the necessary information such as the donors’ names, the amount, and from which channel or linked site they have viewed your fundraiser.

A great idea for conveying your cause is using different forms of media such as photos, voice recordings, and videos. You will notice that the growth in your investments is higher than that of the traditional high school fundraising campaigns. With Piryx, the only online fundraising tool you will ever need, you can keep track of all the donors with ease, and manage all the necessary information in maintaining your fundraising campaign. Information such as the donors’ names, the amount donated, and date of donation are readily available for your processing. With the use of computers, you can work on all the necessary information in an efficient manner, avoiding all the tiresome tasks of organizing traditional fundraising events and activities.

The use of computers has indeed improved our lives in many ways. And in terms of communication, setting up your high school fundraiser is as easy as sending email to a friend or loved one. Furthermore, spreading the cause of your fundraiser is faster and more effective than hosting events or activities that require a lot of planning, financial resources, and manpower. Results are seen in the least amount of time, and you can even manage multiple online campaigns with just a click of the mouse button. Another benefit for online campaigns is that you can receive feedback through email and other networking sites, giving you an opportunity to improve or strengthen your campaigns’ cause, and deliver your message as efficiently as possible.

With Piryx, online campaigns can be easily spread out to hundreds, even thousands of online users through email, and other useful web tools and applications that are easy to use. The athletes, parents, supporters and donors all play the part in sharing the cause of your high school fundraising campaign. The value of your cause is conveyed faster, and you can see the big difference in investment returns, compared to traditional fundraising campaigns that take more time for your capital investment to gain profit. Learn and discover the benefits of using Piryx, and see the difference.

If you need to raise money for your high school and not sure where and how to go about fundraising, you can can get read up on some quality high school fundraising ideas that will give your fundraiser a boost to help you increase your donations with little time and effort on your end.

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