Raising Funds for Your Charter School with Crowdfunding
With crowdfunding, charter schools and individual classrooms can raise money for projects by collecting relatively small amounts of money from a large number of people. With the help of an online campaign, including web, email and social media, your project can be broadcasted to a large audience. Crowdfunding is great for specific projects or needs. Letting donors know exactly how their money will be used engages and draws in potential contributors.
We have listed a few helpful sites below, but be sure to get the proper approvals before beginning any fundraising campaign.
DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for donors to find meaningful projects to support. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on the website site, and donors can give any amount to the project that most inspires them.
ClassWish offers a variety of ways for groups or individuals to help the school of their choice. Donors can choose to give monetary gifts, or purchase supplies specifically requested by their school.
With Adopt-A-Classroom, donors can choose any classroom at any school of their choosing to donate to—or, if they don’t have a preference, the organization will partner that donor with a classroom.
PiggyBackr, is a crowdfunding website helping students from kindergarten through college learn how to raise money online and gain 21st century skills in a safe, fun, and educational way. Students fundraise as individuals or as a part of a team led by a student leader, parent, teacher or mentor, but student involvement is key.
Founders Kevilina Burbank and Jaime Wood say they were inspired to start IncitED after seeing too many education projects on non-specific funding sites go nowhere.
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