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Choosing a healthy fundraising product to raise funds for your school’s fundraiser doesn’t mean less fun or lower profits. A nutritious product is a better alternative to the typical candy bar, cookie dough, and pancake breakfast fundraisers. Why should you give your food fundraiser event a healthy mission that is in line with school wellness standards? Chew on this. The benefits of healthy product fundraising are worth more than the money.

Fundraising is necessary for schools, daycares, non-profit organizations, local businesses, and many other types of organizations.

Social media is a great tool for your fundraising strategies. Not only are the posts on social platforms visually engaging but they’re easily shared with just one click of a button – two important aspects of fundraising online. The role of social media in fundraising is huge in such a virtual world. According to The Pew Research Center, “…around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information, and entertain themselves.”

A guest blog post for Fun Pasta Fundraising by Sandy Rees.

Hosting a school fundraiser can be overwhelming with all the different choices and options that are out there. We’ve made it easy and listed our top twenty easy school fundraising ideas all in one place for you. These will help make your fundraising events more profitable than ever before.

Fundraising season is here again! It can be a hectic time for leaders, parents and kids alike, but that doesn’t stop it from being fun! Fundraising with Kids 101 provides you with the tools needed to have a successful fundraiser for everyone involved. It’s important to have smart project goals that children can enjoy long term.  Instead of pizza and knick-knacks, offer creative incentives such as field trips, fun breaks in the day, new technology for the classroom, or new equipment. Whether it’s about sales totals or class participation, having a successful fundraiser can be simple with the tips displayed below in our infographic. Check it out!

Volunteer management is the process of engaging and inviting volunteers into your organization. Volunteer Management is a critical function for most non-profit, school, sport and extra-curricular groups. With that in mind, today we’re sharing some best practices for volunteer management that will ensure the health of your organization’s volunteer base. At the heart of volunteer management there are three principles that provide an excellent foundation. Be relevant– Make sure volunteers know, understand and buy in to the purpose- How their service helps your organization, who they are serving and how it helps them to grow individually. Be realistic– Make sure that volunteers understand what you are asking them to do is a reasonable match for their gifts, interests and availability. Before placing them into a role, consider who they are, their time and what they skills they can contribute. Be relational– Volunteers need to know that they matter more than the task you want them to accomplish. You need to put people first to create an inclusive community.

By choosing an efficient and profitable fundraising program, setting very specific goals, limiting the amount of fundraisers run annually, and trying something new schools will find that they can reduce fundraising noise and achieve success. And that’s worth talking about

If you are following this blog, then you know we are passionate about two things: Pasta and helping schools, non-profits and groups of all types reach their fundraising goals through the sales of our products. As a group leader the weight of responsibility for fundraising can be heavy. Under the pressure of increased monetary need to cover expenses, it’s easy for leaders to second guess their decisions. Did you choose the right product fundraising company? Are you running your fundraiser at the best time of year? Will you meet sales goals? Today, we are sharing some of our leader’s most common questions. Read on to find out if you know what you SHOULD know about product fundraisers.