School Fundraising Checklist

After Signing Your Fundraising Agreement: What’s Next?

Set Your Goal
STEP 1
  • ✅ Define your fundraising goal and how funds will be used
  • 🎯 Clearly communicate your goal and purpose to families and staff before, during, and after your fundraiser
  • 📄️ Work with your Fundraising Consultant to include your goal on Parent Letters
  • 📅️ Share updates and encourage supporters to meet and exceed your goal throughout the fundraiser
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Prepare for Launch
STEP 2
  • 📝 Review Easy Step Instructions and prepare for your big kick-off announcement
  • 🎤Customize your kick-Off and Parent Night scriptsto fit your school
  • 📣Set up promotions (posters, website/pta link, and display kit for visibility and engagement)
  • 🔖 Learn the Daily Prize Program and organize volunteers for daily distribution
Kick Off the Fundraiser
STEP 3
  • 🎬 Host your kick-off event, follow your script, and show the video
  • 🎯️ Clearly explain your goal and how funds will be used
  • 🎉 Build excitement—promote incentives play a theme song, and bring the energy
  • 📽️️️ Distribute student packets during class or homeroom
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Promote Consistently
STEP 4
  • 🏆 Award daily and online prizes while following your promotion timeline
  • 🎉 Engage teachers and encourage participation school-wide
  • 📣 Consistently promote your goal and purpose to students and families
  • 📱 Use social media, email, text, and word-of-mouth to spread and share the fundraiser
Collect Orders
STEP 5
  • 📝 Collect all forms and payments on the due date (morning recommended)
  • 📦 Allow a short grace period, then enforce the final deadline
  • 📄 Follow Easy Step Instructions to separate, complete, and submit order forms correctly
  • 🚚 Mail orders on time and plan ahead for holiday delivery deadlines
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Delivery & Distribution
STEP 6
  • 📦 Confirm delivery with Charleston Wrap before scheduling distribution
  • 🛍️ Organize volunteers to sort and prepare orders for distribution
  • 📅️ Schedule distribution day and pickup times after delivery arrives
  • 📣 Communicate clear pickup details to families
Celebrate & Continue Online
STEP 7
  • 🎉 Share results and recognize top sellers and classrooms
  • 📊 Thank everyone involved—especially your volunteers
  • 💻 Encourage continued support through online sales
  • 💌 Share your fundraising link via email, text, and social media
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Arendell Parrott Academy
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We’ve had different fundraisers before but the Charleston Wrap team went above and beyond from beginning to end to ensure that we were completely satisfied. With your company’s guidance, our distribution went so quickly and easily. I highly recommend your company and the products to anyone.

Sharkey Issaquena Academy
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Our PTA was very pleased with the customer service response from Charleston Wrap. We always felt fully supported during our fundraiser. Our catalog fundraiser was well organized and ran very smoothly. The merchandise was of great quality and proved to be profitable for our school.

Mary E Baker Elementary School
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