As School Treasurer for a Catholic school in SE Calgary, Crystal Milne knows a thing or two about school fundraising.
Most underestimate the time commitment involved with school fundraising. Doing well means having organizational skills, accountability, and a keen eye for mistakes and data entry errors.
Every school has big money-making fundraisers that are themed. For example, Christmas might include poinsettias, chocolate, or other festive buys.
Our Spring Fill Your Freezer fundraiser has tasty options for every palate. From meats to cheeses and even dessert for the sweet tooths, parents love supporting the school and feeding their family at the same time.
>View Fill Your Freezers Fundraisers here.
As the School Treasurer, the profit margin is often appealing, but the process of a school fundraiser can be daunting. There are forms for each vendor, summary forms, cheques, and cash in baggies that need to be reconciled to forms that weren’t attached.
It can be so time-consuming and draining to sort through all this paperwork.Â
Error in amounts have to be adjusted, large deposits made usually followed by running to a courier depot to get all the cheques to the different vendors. There can be errors and refunds on delivery day.
| Yes, a great profit margin when the hours invested are volunteered.
Last year as Treasurer, our Fill Your Freezer Fundraiser was approaching, but I was busy with our Dance/Silent Auction.
Spring came, I was walking down the hall when our Fundraising Coordinator quickly handed me a cheque and a Sales Summary for our school fundraising.
The Fill Your Freezer is done, and we had our highest profits…can you deposit this?
I remember ordering but I was wondering how did this arduous process get done without all my Treasurer hours and skills being employed?
| The answer was TeamFund Fundraising.
Our organizer realized the profit margins with TeamFund were similar OR higher than if we coordinated directly with the vendors!Â
With TeamFund, our school fundraising was quickly set up online. I sent an e-mail to all of the parents who then recruited friends and family to order their favourites.
A few weeks later the delivery was made and a cheque arrived at our school a short time after that. The forms, corrections, errors, refunds, large deposits, couriering etc. were eliminated from the process completely.
When I decided to take on the Treasury role, my family was made aware of the large time commitment required.
The reward for all parent volunteers is seeing how what we do helps to enrich the lives of our kids at our school.
TeamFund Fundraising reduced the Treasurer hours required during school fundraising from huge to just making the time to deposit a cheque.
I for one can’t wait to get everyone on board to Fill their Freezers next year!Â
Fundraise for any season and any reason with TeamFund Fundraising!Â
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