Our school is a private school, but I think this policy would work for any school....

We have a Development Director who must approve all fundraising for the entire school. There is a form that needs to be filled out, etc.

We do TWO major fundraisers a year: one is a Walk-A-Thon and one is a Candy Sale. The whole school participates and the funds are distributed by grade...both of these encourage the students to only ask family and friends and no door-to-door solicitation. We raise between $30-$40K.

We sometimes do a couple of of smaller specific types of fundraisers (flowers at Valentine's Day from the Senior Class, etc.) but that's miniscule.

This has helped us so much!

fundraisers are to help with making it better to school your child like buy new books pay for the kids who get free kunch pay for school things like pcs phones pencials papers chalk things like that I think it is a good thing to have fundraisers I know we have Fundraisers with Avon that I sell and I try to get the scools into doing that fundraiser I am a Avon Rep so I know how the fundraisers get old but there a good thing

We got tired of tired of all the fund raiser papers, bake sales, field trip help papers being sent home in our sons folder or backpack asking for help so we bought his class an account of Pleasebringit. We can see what has been chosen and what isn't and if we cant help we can make a donation.

I would suggest contacting the PTO president directly; usually they're involved in deciding how fundraising money is used.

If your child's school has a School Site Council, they are also involved in money spending decisions.