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Sponsorship Ads
(From the Great Idea Bank archive) "Our parents have complained about the numerous fundraisers which require them to sell items. This year we asked the businesses we support to support us. Parents solicited sponsorship ads from local businesses to be included in our PTA Parent Handbook. Business card sponsorship was $35, 1/4 page $55, 1/2 page $90 and full page was $150. We made over $1500 (after printing costs) and parents didn't have to sell candles or candy to their co-workers. We had parents who don't normally participate secure ads from their places of business and businesses which they support."

Contact: ptasponsor@msn.com

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Tim Fitzpatrick on July 9, 2009 at 11:15pm

Very interesting idea and sounds somewhat successful. I think you could take this one step further and make it a regular income stream for the PTA plus help build the school community. Yo can do this through creating a PTA sponsored newspaper. I have a lot more details I would be glad to share if you are interested just shoot me an email.

Permalink Reply by hazel jones-moses on July 14, 2009 at 12:26am

i would love to hear more details

Permalink Reply by Tim Fitzpatrick on July 15, 2009 at 11:44pm

I wrote an ebook about this subject a few years ago abouthow to do this as a business model. Let me find the book and clean it up a bit so it just has the info relevant to this topic and I will upload to my website and let everyone know what the ink is so they can grab it and utilize it as they wish. SHould be able to get it up in a couple days.

Permalink Reply by Marie Solla on December 17, 2011 at 11:29pm

Tim I created a newsletter for our PTSA and have brought up the idea of having classified pages. I just don't know how to do this. Any advice for me? How much should we charge? We need to offset the printing cost, or do we keep it on an email basis only?

Permalink Reply by hazel jones-moses on July 14, 2009 at 12:25am

i think that is a great way to get corporate sponsors involved in our schools and also different businesses i will take this back to our next pta meeting

Permalink Reply by Carissa Dollar on July 15, 2009 at 4:08pm

We were considering selling ads in our newsletter for this next school year.

Permalink Reply by Marie Solla on December 17, 2011 at 11:30pm

Carissa, do you print your newsletter, or do you email to members? How do you offset the printing costs?

Permalink Reply by Tim Fitzpatrick on July 15, 2009 at 11:36pm

Another thought in fundraisers. In reality, fundraisers nowadays boil down to parents and grandparents and some other relatives buying stuff they probably don't want or can get cheaper elsewhere all because they feel obligated. Why not take fundraising to the next level by creating a fundraiser that creates residual fund generation for your PTA from the efforts of one fund drive. This alleviates the "nickel and dime" aspect of fundraising so many parents dislike. The product has to be something people use and will reorder time and time again meaning it has to benefit them by saving them time and/or money or both. In my opinion this going to be the wave of the future for fundraising and will really benefit PTAs that take advantage. To read more details on how this works and see an actual product line you can use you can visit: www.socalautoshine.com/fundraiser

Permalink Reply by kindel meek on September 10, 2012 at 10:13pm

I have thought about selling ad space in our memory book to local merchants. The income would help lower the overall costs of the book to the students...with the ultimate goal of having the costs totally covered. Not sure if we are allowed to or not.

Plus, we opted to do discount card this year that has great participation from local businesses. I would think these places would place an ad in the memory book for a low fee.