Students read whatever interests them and, with their parents, they invite their friends and family to make donations, which can be based on the number of books or hours they read. Your school keeps 80% of funds raised, there is no door-to-door selling, and it only needs one or two volunteers.
Less than 2 weeks is not recommended because you want students to read as many books as possible. Note that we have seen donor fatigue occur with fundraisers that last longer than 8 weeks. A fundraiser this long may begin to interfere with other activities and obligations such as testing, school plays, and vacations.
September and October fundraisers benefit from back-to-school excitement, while March fundraisers line up well with Literacy Month and Dr. Seuss’s birthday.
Specifically, you will need:
To accept credit card donations, you will need to sync your organization’s bank account to Stripe.com. Once completed, credit card donations deposit directly into your Stripe account. To transfer money from your Stripe account to your organization’s bank account you may choose between automatic deposit or a manual transfer. The automatic deposit is on a 2-day rolling basis and the manual transfer is best used if you prefer a lump sum transfer. At the end of the fundraiser, we reimburse you Stripe’s processing fee.
To accept credit card donations, you will need to sync your organization’s bank account to Stripe.com. Once completed, credit card donations deposit directly into your Stripe account. To transfer money from your Stripe account to your organization’s bank account you may choose between automatic deposit or a manual transfer. The automatic deposit is on a 2-day rolling basis and the manual transfer is best used if you prefer a lump sum transfer. At the end of the fundraiser, we reimburse you Stripe’s processing fee.
We provide the following paper templates to support offline participation:
When planning your event, please consider the following factors, all of which help indicate how much you’ll raise:
Once login information is received, students then:
Parents and students can invite sponsors via text message, email, and social media. Prior to inviting any sponsors, a parent must first authorize their child's account. Parents that want to further involve close family and friends can invite them to follow their child's reading. Upon donating, followers are able to send an encouraging message, recommend books to the student, and view their reading logs and newsfeed.
If a parent chooses to authorize their student's account, the parent will be able to view their student's profile and invite sponsors and followers. Followers are donors who are also able to view the student's profile. Students can ask others to sponsor them, but the student can only suggest that their parent invite followers - all follower invitations must be sent by the parent. The only people that have access to a student's reading profile at their school are the fundraiser coordinator and that student's teacher and classmates. All data is stored off-site, on industry-standard secure servers. It is important to note that we do not collect any personal information about each student other than first and last name (or last initial) and do not sell any data in any form to other companies.
A school fundraiser where everybody wins! Formerly known as Whooo’s Reading’s read-a-thon, we’ve partnered with PTAs/PTOs nationwide since 2012 to fundraise and engage readers.
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