For ages kids have been entertaining themselves, for hours, with jumping fun. It’s great fun and healthy. So this fundraiser is all about jumping rope. Make this fundraiser not only fun, but make it about raising funds for school activities.
You could take advantage of this fundriser several times throughout the school year. Have sheets made up which students can take around to get signatures for pledges. Have those pledging, write down next totheir name how much they will donate per however many minutes the student jumps.
Encourage the students to not limit their selection of pledgers to friends, family and acquaintances either. Suggest they walk up and down their neighborhood getting signatures for donations with the supervision of an adult.
Ask businesses, city organizations, church members to sign up to pledge as well. Wal-Mart is good about letting school groups set up tables for school activities. So try to set up a booth with students to get shoppers to pledge donations..
Don’t limit yourself to Wal-Mart, see if other grocery stores will do the same. Be sure to get phone numbers with those pledges so they can later be called for the pledges to be picked up.
Parents can take their child’s pledge sheet to work with them and see if they can get some signatures from co-workers. Grandparents can do the same. The more people who’ll sign up for this fundraiser, the more funds that can be raised.
Allow for about a week of signature gathering. Then set up the day for the jumping to begin. Encourage parents to be there. You’ll need help for adults to help supervising this jump. Each volunteer should have at least five students to keep an eye on with their jumping.
Once the student quits jumping then his/her time needs to be entered on their pledge sheet, which those supervising that group of kids will have. They will then need to sit out and wait for their group members to finish.
You’ll want each student participating in this fundraiser to bring their own jump rope. These are inexpensive and can be found at different merchandising stores, even dollar stores. This way the school wont need to have an added expense purchasing jump ropes.
Encourage the parents of the students to bring a light snack and drink for their youngster who’s jumping. The school gym is the best place to hold this event or another school building large enough to house several jumpers.
Before the jumping begins already have permission slips signed. Collect all the pledge sheets and divide them into groups of five. On the day of the jumping, hand out the group of five pledge sheets to the volunteers who’ll look over that particular group jumping.
After the event is held, now begins the collecting phase. The kids should have collected phone numbers with their pledges. Have them call up their donaters and make arrangements to collect the donation pledge. Encourage each student to smile and say thanks you when
collecting the money.
After all the collecting is done and the tally has been figured, make an announcement over the PA System to let the kids know how much money they raised for the school. Perhaps sometime during the school year, an ice cream party can be planned as a way of thanking the students for all their hard work helping to make money for their school.
Don’t forget to do this fundraiser a few times throughout the school year. Kids enjoy doing these kind of things and people enjoy for the most part, donating to a good cause.
