When you’re stuck on how to start a school fundraiser, sign up for a virtual donation drive with Fund-Team.com. Alone or as part of a larger fundraising plan, Fund-Team.com lets schools, clubs, teams, and other organizations generate funds securely and profitably. Here, we’ll explain how our platform works and provide a few ideas for using it most effectively.

Entirely hosted through our website with no app to download, Fund-Team.com is easy to use and incredibly effective. Students and parents will not need to sell overpriced goods, keep up with cash and checks, or interact with strangers when trying to sell goods, offer services, or solicit donations.

Family members, friends, and community members can support the school's efforts directly through an online donation, and the school keeps far more of the money than it would with fundraiser sales or other companies' virtual donation programs. 

Fund-Team.com - How It Works

Inspired by experience with other fundraisers, Fund-Team.com aims to offer users effective and secure services for a fair price. Its creator, Mike Panoff, began with a desire to serve one club, his daughter's dance team, but the results have benefited a number of other organizations nationwide. Why shouldn't your school be another?

The typical fundraising company provides merchandise or merchandise catalogs for order placement. The goods usually cost too much, and the organization keeps too few profits. We provide a way for schools to avoid selling unwanted goods and keep more money.

Even though online donation campaigns are easy and allow donors to support the organization directly, most companies keep far too much of the donations made. Mike Panoff addressed all of these issues when designing Fund-Team.com.

Fund-Team.com charges a very low 5% commission for using our platform, and payment processors charge an additional ~3% for processing donations. The organization therefore retains ~92% of the donations made. 

Setting up a Fund-Team.com donation campaign takes about ten minutes of the organizer’s time. First, the organizer will sign up for a drive on our website and ask students and parents to collect contact information for potential supporters through email addresses and mobile phone numbers. 

The organizer will schedule a sign-up meeting during which the participants can enter all the contact information they've gathered. We will then use this information to send automated and personalized donation requests via email addresses and text messages.

In addition to donation requests, we'll send links to share on the participants' individual social media pages and the school's general pages.

Highlights to Remember:

  • Enter genuine and accurate contact info - no contacts that are made up or unknown to the user (Abusers of the platform will be banned.)
  • 10% more successfully delivered emails due to our verification system
  • 5% commission
  • Payments are accepted via debit/credit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, and PayPal
  • Prompts to send thank you messages for email-connected donations
  • 80% of donations are delivered upon campaign completion, and the remaining 20% are delivered once the payments clear.

The best answer for how to start a school fundraiser comes from Fund-Team.com.

Call 512-522-1338 or click here to schedule a call. Already convinced? Click here to sign up and start your first fundraising campaign today.