When the school bell rings in the morning, the school's fundraiser is not the first thing on a principal's mind. More likely, she's thinking about such high-priority concerns as the coffee spill in the upstairs corridor and the alarming speed at which library books and copier paper disappear. And most certainly, she's thinking about student safety. Maybe by mid-morning she can turn her focus to guiding curriculum and evaluating instruction while juggling No Child Left Behind requirements. It's true: school principals have a lot on their plates. But, now more than ever thanks to shrinking school budgets, school principals must also be involved in fundraising. Student needs depend on it.

In a survey conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, 81 percent of principals polled nationwide said the benefits of fundraising justified the time and effort involved. Sixty-two percent, however, said they would end fundraising if possible.

Many principals, in fact, try to do that by delegating fundraising responsibility to someone else—often the school's PTA. (Forget for now that many PTAs would rather not be typecast as the school's fundraising department. That's another story for another day.) The fact remains, however, that fundraising makes a lot of things possible in the school community, and because of this, experts say that it is better for everyone if the principal is involved in the fundraising from start to finish. For the reluctant school principal, the first step to acceptance is looking beyond the principal's traditional policing role to an expanded role as coach and collaborator with the school's PTA (like it or not, PTAs are responsible for fundraising in approximately 65 percent of U.S. schools).

WHY DO A CATALOG SALE IN THIS

ECONOMY?

From the Editor: Daniel Schopf

We cannot figure out when the wrapping paper and catalog sales will be over with! The numbers have been going down year after year with NO END IN SIGHT!

In a soft economy people are ony going to buy WHAT THEY KNOW THEY CAN USE! Your catalog merchandise is no longer satisfying the needs of your parents. There is a point when your parents will throw their hands up in the air and stop supporting all together!

The products that are MOST effective for parents to continue purchasing year after year are things that are RENEWABLE! Click on our PRODUCTS portion to read more about our GREAT PRODUCTS.

By the way... there are a few things to think about if someone is trying to get you to do a wrapping paper sale,

1. Wrapping paper is directly determined by how many gifts there are to wrap. In a soft economy people buy less gifts. What does this mean? LESS WRAP WILL BE BOUGHT!

2. We are getting lazy! I can not remember the last time I recieved a wrapped present. My last 20 gifts or so have been tossed in a gift bag or came in the form of a giftcard.

Don't get me wrong.. wrapping paper can be a GREAT fundraisier. I just wouldn't take the chance in a soft ecenomy.

WHY CHOOSE THE COOKIE DOUGH MAN? WE HAVE GREAT PRODUCTS AND WE DO ALL OF THE WORK!

Your only job is to count the money... and take all the credit!

• The assemblies that we provide are HUGE productions. They are exciting, motivating, and hilariously entertaining! Some call them kick-off assemblies... we call them a BLAST-OFF assemblies!
• You get a great Prize Program with fabulous bonus prizes free of charge!
• You get all order forms, tally sheets, reminder notes and money collection envelopes. All the "grunt" work is taken care of!
• We split cases, order only what you need
• Some parents are reluctant to buy over 50 items because they are worried that they do not have the freezer space. We have the SOLUTION! We can schedule a special delivery to the home or office for those that sell 50 or more items!
• You do not have to wait an ETERNITY for your products to be delivered! Once the sale ends... we deliver the next week! We call it the "fastest turnaround" in the fundraising industry!
• Find out how The Cookie Dough Man "No Work Fundraiser" can help YOUR school, team or youth group raise more money.

"If you spend most of your fundraising hours doing anything EXCEPT counting money, you are working too hard."

Compare our Fundraising Program or watch our Easy Fundraiser Video.

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