Meadow Farms FUNdraiser
Post date: Oct 7, 2017 7:33:04 PM
It truly does take a village, city, and community effort in order to raise funds for all that the Green Acres PTG (and you) do for our students!
Our Green Acres Community is especially helpful in our efforts to provide for each and every student at our school!!!
Each year our Green Acres PTG budget covers additional funding to our school for books, literacy supplies, computers, teacher grant requests, field trips, assemblies, classroom supplies, field day supplies, outdoor improvements and playground needs and so much more! We have wish list items too!
Our flat budget works out to just about $60.00 per student needed through fundraising dollars. In catalog fundraising terms that’s about $145.00 in sales per student. Consider this math problem…if each student in our school had $145.00 in sales, we could fully fund our budget – but they don’t. Fundraising participation across most school parent-teacher groups nationally is only 28%! The great news at Green Acres is that our participation rate is a little higher at close to 40%. So that means 40% of our students are trying to sell $367.00 each instead of just $145.00…this is a pretty tough bar to meet though, wouldn’t you agree? We've tried catalog fundraisers, citrus fundraisers, coupon books and even a cash raffle. Taking profit and practically into consideration - catalog fundraisers essentially give us our biggest bang for the buck.
We realize that no one loves fundraising. The timing at the beginning of the school year is always a tough one. Everyone is fundraising at the same time including our neighboring middle school, the bands, many sports groups, etc. We understand!
We only ask that you please do the very best that you can!
Please join us at our regular PTG meetings to hear more about what we're up to....everyone is always welcome!
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Regular orders are due on OCTOBER 10th, 2017.Orders can be turned in at school to your student’s teacher.
All checks should be written to GREEN ACRES PTG.
Non-Perishable Orders
will ship directly to your home…there is NO SCHOOL PICK UP THIS YEAR! Please be sure to fill out your forms COMPLETELY!!
PERISHABLE ORDERS
will come to school. We will send home notices and post on Facebook when we expect the orders to arrive.
Family owned and operated since 1968, Meadow Farms Fundraising has been providing high-quality fundraising campaigns to thousands of schools and organizations throughout the Northeast!
From our humble beginnings working with our Dad out of the back of his garage, we have grown to become a leading fundraising company in the Northeast through good old fashioned hard work and dedication! More than 40 years later, our business formula remains the same.
Quality Products, Great Prices and Superb Customer Service!
Our highly qualified Fundraising Reps are the best in the industry. Their valuable years of experience will help your organization choose the most profitable fundraising campaign for your needs. Your success is our success!
Our strategic Massachusetts location means we are able to deliver to the majority of our New England customers with our own trucks and our own drivers. We deliver all products inside your building and per your instructions. We may even stay to sort, separate and arrange your order so you won’t have to!