FUNDRAISING FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS & PTAs
Product-sale fundraisers keep half the money and all of the parent goodwill. A direct-giving campaign keeps everything donors give — with no student accounts, no door-to-door, and no boxes in your garage.
WHY IT WORKS
Grandma doesn't want a $22 roll of wrapping paper. She wants to give $22.
Every product sale is a donation with extra steps and a 50% haircut. Express Mode skips the middleman: the PTA uploads the class roster, parents share the campaign link, and donors credit the student they love. The school keeps everything, and nobody sells anything.
Students never create accounts or enter any information — an adult uploads names, and that's the entire student footprint. COPPA-compliant by design, not by workaround.
A parent volunteer can set the whole thing up in five minutes and run it from a phone. Live totals by class make the classroom-competition incentives easy.
Groupings track each classroom's total for pizza-party stakes, and the live donation feed on the big screen makes the kickoff assembly an event.
PROVEN IN THE FIELD
Direct giving wins on every line.
KEEP RATE
100% vs. ~50%
Product sales return about half of what families spend, before shipping issues and spoilage. Direct gifts land in the school's own Stripe account — donors can even cover the card fees, and most do.
Read moreTHE PROCESS RECORD
$3,352,543 documented
The same personal-ask process has documented $3,352,543 across published case studies. Elementary campaigns run it with parents making the asks instead of students.
Read moreBEYOND THE CAMPAIGN
Two more streams, all year long.
Every campaign also includes a corporate sponsor page for local businesses and a monthly giving club for your most loyal supporters — steady money that keeps coming between campaigns, with students earning incentive credit for both.
Yes — because the kids never touch it. Express Mode needs zero student participation online: no accounts, no emails, no personal data beyond a first name and last initial on the donation page if you choose.
That's the standard staffing. Setup is a five-minute wizard, sharing happens through channels you already use, and the platform does the reminders, receipts, and reporting automatically.
Nothing is purchased and nothing is door-to-door, so there's no pressure mechanic. Families share the link if they want, give if they can, and the classroom incentives celebrate participation, not dollar amounts.
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Free for your school. Five-minute setup. Zero student accounts.
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