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From the monthly archives:

December 2011

School Fundraising e-Course First Three Lessons are Live!

by Jim Berigan December 24, 2011

Hello! I just wanted to let you all know that I have completed the first three lessons of our free, year-long school fundraising e-Course. These lesson are in the first 13 week unit I’m calling “School Fundraising 101″. So far the topics we’ve covered are: How to calm down and see the job in front [...]

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Want to Make More Money at your School’s Raffle in 2012? Read This First!

by Jim Berigan December 22, 2011

Hey!  I have great news!  My partner Sandra Sims and I have just finished writing an awesome e-book about how to organize, plan, and run a successful raffle fundraiser. The e-book is called RaffleSecrets: The Complete Raffle Fundraising System.  It’s 50 pages long and is stuffed with excellent step-by-step advice, with the ultimate goal ofhelping you [...]

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Can We Really Trust What Fundraising Companies are Telling Us?

by Jim Berigan December 22, 2011

I recently came across an article online entitled “Product Fundraisers: The Smart Choice” When I first read the article, I wasn’t sure who wrote it or where it was actually coming from. But, I dug into it a little deeper and found that it was written by a fundraising company that sells products to schools [...]

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Beware Fundraising Companies that Want to Pick Your Pocket!

by Jim Berigan December 15, 2011

One of the things that really bugs me about fundraising are product sales that take too high a percentage from the school. Case in point: I just came across an ad for a company that looked pretty cool. They are running a typical brochure fundraising scheme, but the product they are selling is licensed sports [...]

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Why Schools Should Stop Raising Money for St. Jude’s

by Jim Berigan December 14, 2011

Why schools are not the place to raise money for large, nationally-based non-profit groups

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Are You Using These 9 Essential School Fundraising Strategies?

by Jim Berigan December 9, 2011

1. Plan out a year-long fundraising strategy during the summer, before the first day of school. Know which kind of fundraisers you are going to run and when. Also know how much you need to raise during the school year, and figure out if the fundraisers you’re going to run have a chance of realistically [...]

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