Do you remember your elementary school teachers? We have lots of respect for the teachers of the world here at Flex Fundraising. Teaching is certainly not an easy profession–spending time with some high energy kiddos can quickly become exhausting! When I think back on my days of elementary school, I marvel at how Mrs. Church and many others were able to keep up with all of their kids. Not only are they balancing their careers that revolve around kids, but they have their home lives and health to balance as well.
With the respect that we have for teachers, we at Flex Fundraising want to ensure that we can simplify an aspect of their careers. Our model of fundraising is designed to help out those that have tons of work in their everyday life.
Let’s look into the fundraising that an elementary school in Sandy, Utah was running. Crescent Elementary was able to raise over $14,000 in their fundraiser with Flex Fundraising. We couldn’t be more excited to see the incredible results of a great campaign ran by the school. The magic of our work is that it makes fundraising simple, exciting, and accessible by nearly everyone. Crescent Elementary did many things well in their campaign, and I see three of those that would be great to highlight in this post.
- Use great incentives to motivate entire classrooms
What’s better than motivating one kid? Motivating an entire class! You might think that it’s tough to get an entire group of kids excited about something, but you’d be surprised to see the simple and awesome incentives that Crescent Elementary created for their school. First off, they used incentives that rewarded an entire class for their work. The “leading class” for a certain chunk of the donation would receive the incentive. This created many chances for classrooms to get excited about receiving the incentive! Genius, I say, genius!
Some of the incentives include: dance parties, pie-ing teachers in the face, allowing the class to do the hair and makeup for their teacher, and having one specific teacher sleeping on the roof for one night!
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- Have many donation options
Having one option for donors? Fine. Two options? Better. Five categories with dozens of options?? Incredible. Doing this lessens the pressure for your donors and makes it so much more enjoyable for them to contribute towards something they find interesting. Crescent Elementary had options for beach days, dress up days, hat days, change your name for a day, face painting, sidewalk chalk, cotton candy, picnic lunch, snow cones, kickball tournaments, race a teacher, and water relay races, JUST to name a few. Asking for cash is fine, but giving your donors nearly 50 options is awesome.
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Keep their website up to date, interesting and competitive
Not only did they keep their Flex Fundraising page up to date with the donation totals and progress bars, but they also had interesting content on their own website. Having content lets the community know what you’ve been up to, future plans with the organization, and helps you look more up to date. Doing so will give anyone who stumbles on your website a reason to stick around, which will naturally help your donation chances. Trying to be the top class is always motivating as well!
Check out their full fundraiser: https://flexfundraising.com/crescent-carnival/
