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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What sort of fundraising do EOTP PTSAs do?  By which I mean, what's a normal amount of money to raise?  Like, $100/student/year?  Or more like $10?  [/quote]

It really varies.  Some are more established, some are brand new.  My first year we raised about $50 per student, some of it as in-kind donations of, for example, books or furniture.  Just getting the 501c3 and city paperwork done was a huge effort and the principal covered the fees from her own pocket.  My second year more like $300 per kid just because we had our feet under us and gentrification was bringing in more contributing parents.  It can vary from year to year as we apply for grants and get or don't get them.

It is really hard to raise much from event admissions and shirt sales because you have to give freebies to the truly poor and then there is a large lower-middle income group that can't/won't pay much for things like school shirts.  So things like shirt sales are often intentionally structured to break even using a sliding scale.

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