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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So paying someone else to do the work is not a bad option. Also, it looks like Boosterthon provides a T-shirt to all the kids at the school. We did that too. That alone costs thousands of dollars. So $15,000 profit from $30,000 raised is actually not ridiculous, based on my experience.[/quote]

Except Boosterthon is still using the parents as volunteers in many cases. We do T-Shirts too but even a good quality T-Shirt is $10 or less bulk. If you have 600 students that 6K -most likely $4500 with the bulk ordering discount. We had businesses sponsor the shirt. We called local camps, sports class for kids, fitness centers, grocery stores, dentists etc and offered to put their logo on the back of the shirt in exchange for donating toward the event. We covered the water bottles, T-shirt and inexpensive medal give aways all from the business donors. [/quote]

Yeah, I agree with you that the price of the t-shirts is about $5000, a significant chunk, and we did that too about business sponsors, -another thing that took an incredible amount of work from a small number of volunteers.  And I have no interest in promoting Boosterthon -- I didn't even know what that was until reading about it here on DCUM maybe last year.  I really just want to point out how much work all this is on the parent volunteers, and I wish that parents would just contribute at the beginning of the year, as other posters have said, and we could stop all this effort from parent volunteers for fundraising. but as other posters have said, parents just don't do that, despite paying lip service to that as a great idea.  Personally, I'm wiped out after doing this for years and have decreasing interest in helping at school.       [/quote]

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