When comparing one fundraising company with another you need to keep in mind several things.
First, does the company you are considering for your fundraiser have a program that suits your needs? There are many fundraising companies all aiming for your business, remember, they make money too when your school or nonprofit group is out promoting their products and services.
Many companies offer one, or two types of products in the fundraising program, others offer many more. This is where you need to decide on whether or not the products being offered are product people actually want and whether or not the sale will become a difficult one. You do not want you or your fundraising coordinator trying to find out why sales are not occurring to later determine that people simply don’t want the same old tired product or products the company you choose is offering, year in and year out.
By survey of many PTO Fundraising Coordinators, School Administrators and Youth Athletic League Board Members, today many many people of fed up with the same old fundraising programs offered from abc or xyz fundraising company. That’s why here at Fundraising Provider™ we offer some of America’s best known products through exclusive contracts we have negotiated with name brand companies to help support local schools and nonprofit group fundraisers.
Secondly, how easy is the fundraiser itself? Putting together a fundraiser with some companies can be very complex and frustrating.
We are very biased, in that we believe our program is the best. We have gone to extra-ordinary lengths to make sure that we have the easiest fundraising solutions available to schools, little league groups, soccer clubs, and all other nonprofit groups out there trying to raise funds to help support their purposes. There are many hundreds if not thousands of fundraising companies across America looking for your business. You need to determine how easy these companies will make the fundraiser for you, take a look a several of them. Do they have online fundraising capabilities allowing your group or school the ability to conduct a good portion of your fundraiser online? What technologies are they employing to ensure that your accounting is correct and that sales can be done online with minimal hassle for those looking to support your group. It seems that many companies try to get you to pass out codes to your team members, students of fundraisers to have people enter “codes” into the computer in order for you to get credit for the sale. This is very unwieldy and often results in mistakes by actual survey. Our system does this automatically and actually embeds the unique code for your group (and the person who made the referral) when someone clicks on a link in an email, twitter or facebook posting. Not one other fundraising company is using the technology in this way in the industry today, we are the first. We are the first to allow fundraisers to “tweet” or facebook links with embedded codes that credit your fundraiser on every sale made.
Lastly, many PTA Fundraising groups, Youth Sports Clubs and Church or Youth Group Fundraisers are looking for long term revenue driving means of supporting their activities. Does the company you are looking at offer a program to help you increase your revenue, or is it all up to you? While a two to 4 week fundraiser can give a boost to your yearly revenue, does the company you are looking to do business with offer you a unique means of setting up your fundraiser with a year around presence online. If you look around, you will find the answer is “no” unless you have already signed up with us here at Fundraising Provider™. We are the only company offering a fundraising group or school the ability to set up their own fundraising program on the web with an online fundraising store auto populated with our great products. We have found this to be a highly successful means for a school or other nonprofit youth group, whether religious or athletic in nature, to raise funds on a continual basis, year around. When your team members and fundraiser are promoting they are driving people to your very own website under your unique domain name. This can drive revenues up by over 300% in that people know instinctively that the school or group is getting the money when they go to “www.yourschoolfundraiser.com”.
At just $14.95 per month, it is an excellent investment for your group because we offer items people need and instead of going out and purchasing them elsewhere, we have found that people will purchase online from your store knowing that you receive a majority share of the profit from the online purchase. Again, no other company is offering this solution or opportunity and we have found that it has become an excellent means of increasing fundraising revenue for a school or nonprofit group, and should be something to consider.
