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School Fundraisers: Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Guest Blog Post By: Brad Hanks Brad is the parent of three school-aged kids and makes accounting software for a living. He tweets sporadically at @iambradhanks . The old way of fundraising for schools is terrible and outdated. I remember going door to door as a kid trying to raise money for my school. It was a devastating experience. I always screwed up the orders of my family and closest neighbors. Despite big promises of pizza parties and super soakers, I never won anything and after it was all said and done, I always felt a little exploited. All across America, cute kids are going door to door selling buckets of cookie dough, wrapping paper and coupon books and only an insulting 30-40 percent of the money stays in the schools. Maybe you can relate to one mother’s dilemma. Amanda Morin writes on PopSugar, “I’m tired of the overpriced catalogs of items nobody really needs and I hate that I’m the one who ends up trying to sell the stuff. So much so, in fact, that I refuse to do them a...