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Why School Fundraisers Need Better Incentives

Learn how to make your school fundraising great again

The only people who seem excited about incentives for School Fundraisers are the students at the kickoff assembly. Companies do a great job of hyping the prizes, but we all know they never deliver in the end. Once all is said and done, most students win cheap dollar store prizes while a limited few get the “better” ones.

To win the better prizes, a lot of items have to be sold. Unfortunately, students don’t figure this out until the hype of the kickoff assembly has past and they’ve had a chance to review the prize flyer. As a result, most become discouraged and end up not even try to sell. Others start selling, but then realize that reaching the higher prize levels is more difficult than they initially thought and stop. Is it no wonder that most schools only achieve about 10-15% participation? And most who do participate will sell very little.


What’s the Impact?

Schools don’t stop and think of the potential money that they could be making. For example, consider a school with 500 students. If each of them sold just 5 items they could potentially bring in $40,000! How much money is your school leaving on the table? Your greatest fundraising resource is your students, and most school fundraisers fall well short of what they could make.

So What’s The Solution?

The key to experiencing a successful school fundraiser is finding a way to improve student participation. Easier said than done right? Not necessarily. To get more students to sell you simply have to get them off the fence.

We’ve found that to do that, you have to offer students something big for selling a small number of items. In other words, why not make it easy for every student to win the big prize after selling just a few items? This turns to fundraise on its head.

So instead of offering the good prizes at the end, offer an even better prize at the beginning where everyone can experience it. This will get all of your students excited about your fundraiser.

Why Big Event Prize Programs Are the Answer?

So what’s a big event prize program anyway? The name should give it away. A big event prize program is a special party or shows that’s brought into your school as a student reward for reaching an easily obtainable sales goal. We do all of the preparation and set up; all you have to do is have your students excited and ready to experience it!

So what events do we offer?

Schools can choose any 1 of the following 4 big events:


1. Big Event Super Party: Every student who sells 8 or more items from their fundraising brochure will get to attend the super party. We’ll bring in over $100,000 worth of inflatable games, like a 72-foot-long obstacle course, a 2-story slide, sports area and so much more here.



2. Big Event Magic Show.: Students only have to sell 5 items from their brochure to gain admission to our magic show. This event is both fun and educational because schools get to pick from 8 unique curriculum-based assemblies. Our magicians perform amazing illusions that tell a magical story based on the theme that you choose. know more about 

3. Big Event Reptile Adventures: Our most unusual big event is our reptile show. Selling 5 items gets you into this truly extraordinary event where students get to see, learn about, and touch live reptiles.
How would you like to see a huge snake that can grow to be longer than a school bus, or a giant tortoise that can live almost 200 years?


4. Big Event Super Splash Party: A great end of the school year incentive. Students who sell 8 items get to attend our super splash party where they get to go on a wild rapids ride, giant water slide, slip-n-slide and experience our incredible water tag arena. This event is so much fun that many schools end up making more money in the spring than they did in the fall!

It’s All in the Results

The numbers never lie. Here’s a small sampling of schools that switched to a big event prize program after using a traditional incentive plan the previous year:

event prize program results

The key to a great sale is getting your sellers excited and motivated to sell, and that’s exactly why our big event prize programs could be the answer to making your school fundraiser great again. Want to learn more?

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