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dixiecanyon.com took down that web page, but the wayback machine still has it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20160313155145/http://dixiecanyon.com/2016/02/apex-cancelled-2-12-16/
Separately...
Booster let slip the password they use to access our children's fundraising activities.
"Hacking Equifax, Target and Uber undoubtedly took a great deal of time and talent.
"But Booster Enterprises made it easy. They put the password to their fundraising database - which holds information about children and their contributors - into a video which was found on their Google+ account (now deleted)."
More at:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155641370557739&id=285574712738
http://web.archive.org/web/20160313155145/http://dixiecanyon.com/2016/02/apex-cancelled-2-12-16/
Separately...
Booster let slip the password they use to access our children's fundraising activities.
"Hacking Equifax, Target and Uber undoubtedly took a great deal of time and talent.
"But Booster Enterprises made it easy. They put the password to their fundraising database - which holds information about children and their contributors - into a video which was found on their Google+ account (now deleted)."
More at:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155641370557739&id=285574712738
Am I too late?
Yes, a non-refundable fee of $2,000 is due upon signing the contract regardless of how much money is raised by the children. This is separate from the percentage taken from the child-generated revenue. See a copy of the entire contract here:
https://www.facebook.com/285574712738/photos/a.10152925143837739.1073741827.285574712738/10154131475982739/?type=3&permPage=1
Separately....
Booster let slip the password they use to access their database.
"Hacking Equifax, Target and Uber undoubtedly took a great deal of time and talent.
"But Booster Enterprises made it easy. They put the password to their fundraising database - which holds information about children and their contributors - into a video which was found on their Google+ account (now deleted)."
More at:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155641370557739&id=285574712738
Yes, a non-refundable fee of $2,000 is due upon signing the contract regardless of how much money is raised by the children. This is separate from the percentage taken from the child-generated revenue. See a copy of the entire contract here:
https://www.facebook.com/285574712738/photos/a.10152925143837739.1073741827.285574712738/10154131475982739/?type=3&permPage=1
Separately....
Booster let slip the password they use to access their database.
"Hacking Equifax, Target and Uber undoubtedly took a great deal of time and talent.
"But Booster Enterprises made it easy. They put the password to their fundraising database - which holds information about children and their contributors - into a video which was found on their Google+ account (now deleted)."
More at:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155641370557739&id=285574712738
FCPS regulations (R1370) prohibit kids from cold-calling to raise funds. A safety issue, to be sure.
But Booster gets around this by encouraging kids to use YouTube, Twitter, InstaGram, etc.
http://www.boosterthon.com/pledgesecrets/
But Booster gets around this by encouraging kids to use YouTube, Twitter, InstaGram, etc.
http://www.boosterthon.com/pledgesecrets/
Anonymous wrote:I'm a PTA board member, and I got emails about a free lunch at McCormick and Schmick's (for me and up to 2 guests) if I'd come hear their spiel. Another time, I was offered a $10 Starbucks gift card for filling out a 5-minute survey. I was happy to be able to turn them down, based on what I had previously read here on DCUM.
What, Booster Enterprises didn't offer you an all-expense paid trip to Atlanta - ostensibly to participate in a focus group?
Stenwood PTA got such an offer, according to their board meeting minutes from 1/14/2014. (They turned it down.)
I hear-tell PTAs elsewhere have brought in local run clubs to manage fun runs. As I understand it, they're practically the same as Boosterthons, but they use local people and the overhead is a lot lower.
BTW, here's an update: Booster Enterprises doesn't get 48% any more. Their new contract stipulates a sliding scale depending on gross revenues: 35% to Booster Enterprises if revenues exceed $160K, or up to 70% of child-generated funds go to Booster Enterprises if gross revenue falls below $15K. This doesn't include the $2,000 paid to Booster Enterprises upon signing the contract with the PTA.
On a lesser note, the contract also compels the PTAs to waive their right to a jury trial - use arbitration instead (so, no class action lawsuits) - and the contract prohibits the PTA from running other fundraisers at the same time as the fun run. How these stipulations are in the best interest of our PTAs, I don't know.
BTW, here's an update: Booster Enterprises doesn't get 48% any more. Their new contract stipulates a sliding scale depending on gross revenues: 35% to Booster Enterprises if revenues exceed $160K, or up to 70% of child-generated funds go to Booster Enterprises if gross revenue falls below $15K. This doesn't include the $2,000 paid to Booster Enterprises upon signing the contract with the PTA.
On a lesser note, the contract also compels the PTAs to waive their right to a jury trial - use arbitration instead (so, no class action lawsuits) - and the contract prohibits the PTA from running other fundraisers at the same time as the fun run. How these stipulations are in the best interest of our PTAs, I don't know.