You never need to embarrass your friends over school fundraisers again

Be honest, all of us have been in a situation where we’ve felt uncomfortable bringing sign-up sheets to work and pushing our coworkers to buy soap, soup, flowers, candy, cookies, cards, whatever, to help raise money for our kids’ school band trip, school uniforms, or — whatever. Or, you’ve been on the receiving end of this deal — you don’t have kids or your kids are grown past the fundraising, but you feel obligated to sign up and buy something. We’ve all been there at one time or another, haven’t we?

I just found out about a program to solve the age old questions of how to raise money for schools without the pain and frustration of traditional school fundraisers. The company is called “Schoolpop,” and it specializes in offering “nontraditional fundraising programs” for schools. They have a simple plan: You sign up, you designate a school you wish to help, then you shop. When you shop at one of the hundreds of merchants involved in the program — brand name places like Sears, Macy’s, Dell, and many others — a small percentage of your purchases goes back to the school.

Go take a look around the Schoolpop site. The whole system is explained there, and it could be just what your kids and your kids’ schools are looking for. Sound a lot better to me than the traditional sign-up/order blank sheets at the office.

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