School Fundraising Resources
The expert-curated webinars, guides, success stories, and school fundraising ideas you need to achieve your goals, support your teachers, and elevate your students
Why is School Fundraising Important?
Making the most of your school’s fundraising is crucial for driving your school’s mission forward. Fundraising supports many things, from improving school facilities to keeping extracurricular programs up and running for students.
Getting donors excited to give to your school can be challenging; this school fundraising hub is here to help you maximize your campaigns and boost your efforts. Creative school fundraisers can effectively engage your community and help your school raise more money than ever.
School Fundraising Success Webinars
Let’s freshen up your school’s fundraisers, meet your donors where they are, and connect with your parents, alumni, teachers, and students all year round.
This sampling of school-related success webinars shares:
#OutsideTheRoomWebinar Series: Episode 13 — PENCIL
#OutsideTheRoomWebinar Series: Episode 12 — St. Mary's School
#OutsideTheRoom Webinar Series: Episode 10 — Crossnore School and Children's Home
Ultimate School Fundraising Study Guide
The Ultimate Study Guide for School Fundraising provides tips and tricks to ace your upcoming fundraising events and efforts. Open this fundraising guide for:
Checklist: Pivoting to a Virtual Fundraising Event
The Essential Fundraising Event Checklist: Implementation
Fundraising Ideas for Schools
Whether you want to start something new or refine your existing school fundraiser, these ideas offer turnkey, creative, and goal-achieving campaigns and wrap-around events to help your school fundraisers get straight A’s with your donors and stakeholders.
Inspiring School Fundraising Examples
We understand that executing school fundraisers can be tricky, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are some creative fundraising examples from schools that went above and beyond to reach their goals!
These real-life fundraisers highlight how public, private, and independent K-12 schools found success with their annual campaigns, school stores, sports and arts fundraisers, read-a-thons, and more!
Get inspired by these fundraising examples:
School Store- Mountain Lakes Education Foundation – Mask Up ML!
Winter Wonderland Walk- Friends of Blaine – Winter Wonderland Walk
Read-a-Thon- Burlingame Community Education Foundation
Sports Booster- Perrysburg High School Athletics
Theatre Boosters- Perrysburg Theatre Boosters
Orchestra Concert- Perrysburg Orchestras
T-Shirt Sales- Perrysburg Orchestras
Giving Day- St. Augustine High School – Giving Purple Day
School Fundraising Success Stories
How are other schools finding success with GiveSmart’s fundraising and donor management platform? Read more about these schools making a difference in the lives of their students and families.
The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford
St. Saviour High School
St. Augustine High School
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