FAQ

We follow a proven and simple fundraising process to make your life easy and maximize your profits. 

1. You’ll be paired with a Fundraising University coach who will hold a meeting with your team’s leaders to discuss your fundraising goals and help decide on the best fundraiser for your team. 
   
   
2. Your Fundraising University Coach will explain your fundraiser to your players, motivate them to reach their goals, deliver any products you order on time, and dish out prizes to your players who did the legwork. 
   
   
3. The whole team celebrates together once you reach your goal!

All of our Fundraising University coaches are local to your community and work one-on-one with your team. They will be present and active from the moment your fundraiser kicks off until products and prizes are successfully delivered and money is in your bank. It’s your Fundraising University Coach’s job to help your team reach and exceed your goal!

We run fundraisers for high school sports, band, orchestra, choir, clubs, dance teams, and any other group activities that have between 10-1,000 students! 

Our coaches are experienced with small team fundraisers (like volleyball fundraisers or club fundraisers) and very large fundraisers (like football fundraisers, dance team fundraisers, or fundraisers for an entire school). No matter what size team, you can still reach your goals. 

We want your life to be as easy as possible. You will meet with our Fundraising University Coach once before the fundraising kickoff. Then, you get to sit back and watch us do the heavy lifting.

Most of our fundraisers are designed to take 7-10 days. Our Hour-A-Thons can be completed in a matter of a few hours! 

 

You can expect to raise between $200-$250 per student with a 1-week fundraiser. Though many groups exceed that amount.

This answer varies based on the size of your group or team, time of year, and several other factors. Your Fundraising University Coach will guide you through selecting the product or fundraiser that will bank the most cash in the least amount of time for your team.

You can always hold a fundraiser! In our experience, the best fundraisers are completed at the very beginning of your season or right before your season begins when pressure is low. Fundraisers are a great team-bonding experience, so it’s a great way to kick things off.

You need a minimum of 10 students for a successful fundraiser. We’ve run fundraisers for entire schools before!

Your students are the face of your fundraiser. They reach out to their network of family and/or go door to door in groups to communicate what they’re selling. Your Fundraising University Coach will guide them on best practices, how to stay safe while selling, and how to communicate their cause in a way their community will want to support them!

Fundraising prizes are the best motivator for your athletes and students. We hand out cash, gift cards, and other prizes that high school students and middle school students actually want.

Yes! Middle school fundraisers are very compatible with our system. We even have fundraisers for elementary school students under the right conditions.

We have a variety of fundraisers including consumable sales (popcorn, cookie dough, team tumblers, and seasonal items). We run custom discount card fundraisers tailored to your local area. We offer game ticket fundraisers. And, we host product-free fundraisers called “Hour-A-Thons” that allow your students to contact friends and family via text message and phone call for contributions. 

What might work best for a baseball fundraiser may be different than what works for a dance team fundraiser. That’s where our expertise can help guide you!

We take the size of your team, season, and goals into account. You get to make the final call, but we’ll use our experience to guide you in the most profitable direction. 

Our motto is “Dream Big.” We start by understanding how much money your team needs to raise, and then we work backward to set realistic goals and milestones for each student. Then, we motivate them to reach those goals.

For example, we may have a football fundraiser with the goal to buy new uniforms and make repairs to a stadium. But a softball fundraiser may have the goal of traveling to a national tournament. Each team’s goal is very achievable. Your Fundraising University Coach will help you set proper milestones to ensure you meet those goals.

Everything is tracked and organized by your Fundraising University Coach so you don’t have to crunch any numbers. You’ll receive updates along the way and a final report to show how much you sold and how much you profited.

Your Fundraising University Coach delivers all consumable products to a practice or meeting after the fundraiser. We unload the truck and sort out the products by student. Then all your student has to do is pick up their stack of products and deliver them to their supporters. 

You will receive your money within 7-10 business days from the start of your fundraiser. That’s right. If we hold a 7-day football fundraiser to sell discount cards, the profits of that sale are generally available to you immediately on the last day of your fundraiser (and no more than 3 business days after that).

Some products are handed to the supporter at the time of sale (like our Discount Cards or All-In-One Pass Discount Tickets.)

Consumable products like popcorn and cookie dough are scheduled to deliver 10-14 days after your fundraiser ends. That means, your supporters will wait no longer than 3 weeks to receive the products they purchase, and will generally receive them earlier.

We take cash, check, credit and debit card. We also offer online payments.

Students can text their supporters a secure link that allows that person to purchase through an online portal without ever handing a card to a kid. It’s a completely contact-free transaction!

We’ve heard horror stories about other fundraising companies. Fundraising University is dedicated to fast and profitable fundraisers that are organized from beginning to end. We value clear communication, quick delivery, and a transparent process. Our prizes and celebrations motivate students to sell more by rewarding them with things they actually want (like cash). 

Mountain Vista Football raised $43,043 in ONE WEEK!

We believe in the power of team sports, clubs, and organizations in high school and middle school. There’s value in having quality equipment, uniforms, and playing fields and courts in our community. There’s also value in being able to travel for tournaments and other experiences when you’re in high school and middle school. But that all takes money. When our students are able to raise funds and invest in their own schools, teams, and experiences, it sets a precedent for the students who will come after them and the whole community benefits.

We also give back to communities with our sister organization, the Coaching Matters Foundation and a portion of our proceeds go to benefit Braden’s Hope for Childhood Cancer. 

Coaching Matters is our sister nonprofit, created by us to help fund coaching clinics, coaching recognition and athlete recognition programs, and student scholarships. Coaches are one of the most influential people in a child’s life outside of their family but they need support in order to help student-athletes learn, grow, and succeed in their sport and life. 

Between our launch in 2009 and the summer of 2020, Fundraising University has successfully raised more than $120 million for teams across the United States.

We were founded and launched in 2009. 

Fundraising University serves states across the country and we’re adding territories regularly. Please contact us to find out if we have representatives in your community. 

Yes. All of our fundraisers offer text-to-pay options so that transactions can be done over the phone or text message. Products can easily be dropped off on front porches or in a socially distant manner.

We also run Hour-A-Thon fundraisers that consist of athletes contacting donors over text message and phone calls. This is a zero-contact fundraiser and can be completed in a single afternoon. 

Your athletes can text a secure link to their supporters who can use that to pay for products or make donations through an online portal. 

An Hour-A-Thon is a short and fast fundraiser that our Fundraising University Coaches lead in as little as one hour. We prepare your students to text and call their network of supporters and politely ask for donations. Then, all payments are made through a secure online payment portal.

Other donor campaigns require sending out emails that rarely get opened. Nearly 100% of people read a text message and the vast majority answer. These Hour-A-Thon’s are the perfect way to run a high school fundraiser fast and efficiently. 

Yes! Our Fundraising University Coaches can help you set up a secure online donation portal.