Is your school actively raising funds online? While traditional fundraising methods continue to support schools, one online fundraising program brings donations from many vendors without much effort from your school. It also comes with a terrific website.
The Paperless PTO is a web hosting provider that specializes in eco-friendly, fundraising websites for parent teacher organizations. The website your PTO will receive is loaded with features that will result in a significant reduction in the amount of time it takes to organize your events and they will simultaneously guide your organization on how to become more efficient and environmentally correct.
There is much more to it than the basic tasks any PTO website should perform. Included are routines which help PTOs in managing membership databases, sending email announcements to one or many groups of families in any school, managing an online calendar, archiving flyers and meeting minutes and more. The ability to accept credit card payments is even an option.
Now the good part, The Paperless PTO staff runs the online fundraising program for each school. As a result, the benefits of internet marketing are readily available for board members and volunteers without having to put much effort into it. The more often the PTO uses the website, the more the PTO has to gain.
Once your website is launched, its basic functions will quickly become the focal point of communication between your PTO and your families. The online fundraising feature is built around a shopping mall that comes with your Paperless PTO website. As your families use the mall, merchants will send donations back to your PTO based on the traffic from your website to the merchant websites.
For those families that already shop online, this becomes a simple adjustment that will benefit your PTO from the purchases that they regularly make. For those families who may be new to the concept, it presents a new method of fundraising that is of no additional cost to anyone.
Think about this: an average PTO has a membership base of 300 or so families. Most range from Pre-K all the way up through the 8th grade. These are families that will be using their PTOs website several times per month for over 10 years or longer. The more students in each family, the longer they will be supporting their PTO.
Repetition and familiarity are key ingredients in any kind of successful campaign. Once you make the most out of a website that saves your PTO time, makes your PTO money and contributes to the longevity of our environment everyone wins.
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