In the world of online school fundraising there are ample opportunities to partner with traditional vendors whose goal is to raise funds for your school. While most fundraising vendors offer to split the profits from the sale of their own goods to your families, one online fundraising program offers donations for your school from many vendors. And theyll give you a great website too.

Why shouldnt a school website raise funds on its own? If it was a Paperless PTO website it would. These are websites that are built exclusively for parent teacher organizations. Not only will it raise funds for participating schools, it will also make life easier for PTO executive board members and their volunteers. And dont forget the environmentally correct theme these website project.

Some of the basic tasks your website will perform include managing your membership database, sending email announcements to one or many groups of families in your school, managing your calendar, archiving your flyers and meeting minutes and much more. You can even accept credit card payments if you choose.

The most appealing part of the website is the fact that The Paperless PTO staff runs the online fundraising program for you. Your PTO will benefit from the endless opportunities that internet marketing has to offer without having to work at it. The more your families rely on your website, the more your PTO stands to gain.

Once your website is launched, its basic functions will quickly become the focal point of communication between your PTO and your families. The online fundraising feature is built around a shopping mall that comes with your Paperless PTO website. As your families use the mall, merchants will send donations back to your PTO based on the traffic from your website to the merchant websites.

For those families that already shop online, this becomes a simple adjustment that will benefit your PTO from the purchases that they regularly make. For those families who may be new to the concept, it presents a new method of fundraising that is of no additional cost to anyone.

Think about this: an average PTO has a membership base of 300 or so families. Most range from Pre-K all the way up through the 8th grade. These are families that will be using their PTOs website several times per month for over 10 years or longer. The more students in each family, the longer they will be supporting their PTO.

At the end of the day when we sum it all up, we find an online fundraising program that saves PTOs time. It doesnt just save PTOs money, it actually make them money. And it makes a politically correct statement when showing it cares about our environment.