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School Fundraisers

School fundraisers are an important part of keeping many school activities going. School budgets often do not include extracurricular activities like cheerleading uniforms and field trips out of town. This is where school fundraisers become vital. School leaders and volunteers need to be able to recognize the biggest mistakes that are made when organizing school fundraisers in order to avoid them.

Planning school fundraisers is vital and is typically well done. However, planning school fundraisers includes planning for marketing the event and getting the information out to the community. Fun Pasta has taken this into consideration with their pasta products and includes email templates with their welcome kit that schools can customize and send out to the community. Students can use their email address book for friends and family and spread the word faster using the Internet.

Goal setting is another important aspect of school fundraiser that is often overlooked. The school knows it needs to raise a certain amount of money but fails to incorporate that into the fundraiser. This keeps the participants from having something to work towards. Fun Pasta has created two solutions to this common problem.

First, they have an online goal calculator that allows team leader to determine how much Fun Pasta they need to sell in order to reach their goals. Second, Fun Pasta provides prizes in the form of gift cards that leaders can use to motivate the participants in their school fundraisers. Prizes that are awarded at certain milestones are excellent motivators and give students the push they need to exceed their own goals.

School fundraisers need to make sure they are advertising what the money is being used to accomplish. Fun Pasta can also help with this. In addition to the email template referred to earlier that is part of the welcome kit, schools can pick one of the Fun Pasta shapes to help promote their cause. If the school fundraiser is raising money for a sports team they can highlight the sports pasta shapes in their materials or if they are raising money for the holiday play they can use the holiday shapes and gifts as their marketing tool.

Perhaps the number one mistake that school fundraisers make is selling the wrong. School leaders have to take into account not only what other school fundraisers are going on in their own school but also what fundraisers are going on in other parts of the community. People can only buy so much fruit before they are overloaded and it goes bad and candy bars are only popular for a little while. Families aren't apt to purchase more than one, maybe two.

Fun Pasta on the other hand is a product that everyone will love. Pasta has a long shelf life, up to two years typically and it is a product that is found in practically everyone's home. Add to that a price point that doesn't put a strain on the budget and you have a product that will sell itself many times over.

Another mistake that can be costly is not being organized and losing orders or forgetting who ordered what product. Fun Pasta has this covered as well. Fun Pasta has created a website that is easy to use and helps keep the project on track and organized. Orders are placed online to help decrease the chances of mistakes and if add-ons happen to come in after the sell, these can be submitted up to one month after the school fundraiser is over and the money will still be credited to the school.

Fun Pasta has examined many of the pitfalls and mistakes of school fundraisers and created safety nets for each of them. Fun Pasta will help to meet or exceed most school fundraisers projected goals.