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| Better School Fundraising Prizes Make a Huge Difference in Results
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Juan Franco | |
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Copyright (c) 2009 AIM Fundraising
In a lot of cases where school fundraising is concerned the motivation to get kids and families involved can often be lacking. And it's not the kids lacking the motivation. Kids will get excited about the "Yard of Gum" but Mom will trash the brochure because "She" is not excited about it. Fix that and you fix sagging sales!
School or team fundraising is something that is usually done at least once a year by school children everywhere. It is something that can make a massive difference for those involved in it. This difference could be to help your school buy needed equipment or to send a kid to camp.
Whatever you are actually raising money for you will no doubt have one thing in mind, which is to raise as much money as possible. Lucky for you, where school fundraising is concerned there is now a proven way to increase the amount of money that you raise on your next school fundraising campaign.
In most cases where fundraising and school children are concerned the motivation to get fully involved can often be lacking. Ever heard of "jinky" prizes? Keeping this in mind, there needs to be the right kind of prizes for school children to encourage them to want to participate in the fundraising process. By giving children an incentive they are more likely to be motivated to give their all to the cause. This means that they are a lot more likely to participate in your school fundraising campaign. But just what kind of incentives do you need to have and how do you set up your prize program?
The biggest incentive that you can give to children is to offer a prize they really, really want and make it easy to get. This achieves one very powerful thing, it motivates more of the students to participate in your fundraiser. it also adds fun and excitement into the school fundraising process. Remember children are more likely to do something if there is something in it for them. So if there is a prize involved that they really want to get their hands on they will do everything they can to earn it.
Providing an exciting and powerful prize program stands as the single most important factor when it comes to the success of your school fundraising campaign. Let me put it another way; you could have a terrible product to sell but do really well with it if you motivate your students right. Basically no matter what your school fundraising idea revolves around you will have no problem doing really well with the right kind of prizes.
The prizes that are offered when it comes to school fundraising needs to be for that particular and specific group of students. In other words, it needs to be appropriate for the students age and gender as well as something that parents are able to get excited about. If the prize program is not well planned then it will fail to be appealing to students and more importantly, their parents. As a result it will fail to motivate them to participate in your school fundraiser. Using the wrong prizes, or even using the "right" prizes in the wrong way could actually have a negative effect on your fundraising efforts.
The better the prizes you have for your group, the better your fundraising profits will be. Think about it. If you structure a prize program for your school that would get even you excited about helping your child earn them, wouldn't the fundraiser go much better? We can get kids excited about anything, but if the parents are excited about the prizes too... you do the math!
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One of the best fundraising ideas is not about the product you choose to sell or the timing of when to sell it, but about the motivation you provide for your group to sell it. Find out more by going to http://aimfundraising.com/prizes.htm |
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