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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the issue is simply that running a fundraiser in house takes lots more volunteer effort to match the bells and whistles of an outsourced fundraiser.  Often a basic  donation fundraiser does not raise as much as an outsourced fundraiser even accounting for the money paid the fundraising company.  To run an in house fundraiser with the prizes, assemblies, communication, reminders, money collection ease of an outsourced fundraiser is really really really volunteer heavy and lots of PTAs do not have the volunteers.  I know Ridgeview struggles hard to get PTa volunteers so for them I see why they would outsource.  It is a relatively high FARMS school that still tries to offer all students extracurricular things like the orchestra trip.  So it needs money.  But with minimal volunteers no way could they run a comparable  fundraiser in house.  I have run an in house fundraiser that used prizes, educational assemblies, loads of communication, money collection etc… and it was like a full time job. After I left that school it was outsourced so super easy to run and made even with the cut taken out by the fundraising company, more money. [/quote]
One of the problems I have with Boosterthon is how much of the donation they take. Your friends and family are donating to your child; they are thinking most of it will go to your child's school. But, in actuality, less than half goes to the school.

If you tell the donor up front how much is actually going to the school, I doubt many would donate that much. They aren't interested in enriching a company; they want to help your child.

That makes it a scam.

Then there's the party and prizes for those who raise the most. It becomes a "you win if you are rich" game.  Then there's the amount of time that is taken away from academics with all the rah rah boosters.[/quote]

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