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[quote=Anonymous]I'd be interested to know what percentage of profit other fundraising companies take if you use them as compared to Boosterthon. I know some schools have mentioned that they do magazine sales or some other types of fundraiser like that, but what is the take from that? Less than 50%? I doubt it. I know we have these restaurant fundraising nights where you get the whole school to go to a certain restaurant on the same night and they give back a percentage of the profit to the school, but the best margin I've seen is like 25%.
Our PTA was very upfront about Boosterthon taking 40-50% depending on which option we chose. (You can do an option where they staff doesn't stay on campus all week, so you have volunteers delivering prizes and tracking pledges and fielding all the questions and all that. Or you can do a version where they run everything from start to finish, so your percentage is determined by that.) There was no "don't tell the parents" message at all. But maybe the PP was talking about how they recommend that you publicize and emphasize the amount of PROFIT the raised rather than the total amount? But that only makes sense because if you are trying to buy all new $15K equipment for a computer lab, you don't want to announce halfway through that "hey we raised $28K!" if you know that 45% of that is going to Boosterthon. Instead, you say "we've raised $12K so far!" when you have raised 45% more than that because that is the amount that the SCHOOL is keeping. 
As a PTA, we definitely thought they did 45% of the work, provided a valuable service, an extremely efficient website/collections/social media-connected system, and an incredibly profitable fundraiser. I fail to see how a for-profit company planning, executing, and delivering a ridiculously-profitable fundraiser is unethical. But maybe I am blind to it because we now get a whole new media center out of it????[/quote]

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