Guidelines for schools

GUIDELINES FOR SCHOOLS

mycause works with hundreds of schools across the country, helping them to raise money through fundraising events. Whether it is a walkathon, colour run or readathon - you've come to the right place!

Our system has been specifically designed to help schools manage the large volume of students and parents that are participating in fundraising campaigns, as well as functions to help maintain students' privacy make it super easy for parent or school event managers.

Our features include:

·       Activated privacy restrictions

·       Pre created templates

·       Fast and bulk creation of fundraising pages

After helping hundreds of schools with fundraising events for many years we know there is a right way and a wrong way to set up these events.

On mycause you can choose registration + fundraising or fundraising only

Only choose registration if you are charging a fee for participation in the event or if you have multiple activities to select. Otherwise, keep it simple and choose fundraising only.

For your event you have four options:

ONE FUNDRAISING PAGE PER CLASS - pre-created **recommended**

ADVANTAGE: Quick set up. Use the bulk upload feature

Parents simply search the class name on the website OR you can send home the page link per class

Childrens’ privacy is maintained

The page is pre-created by event admin

DISADVANTAGE Donors can only donate to the class not to an individual student

TIP In the page text paste the names of the students in that class if required

ONE GROUP FUNDRAISING PAGE PER CLASS - pre-created **not recommended**

ADVANTAGE Donors can donate to any student eg their child

The student does not require an email address (but a user must be logged in to add them eg parent or teacher).

The page is pre-created by event admin

DISADVANTAGE Encouraging each student to join is arduous.

For younger students, this creates a burden for parents as they need to add their child to the group and must log in to do so.

The money raised per student is displayed which may cause issues for students unable to raise money.

Parents may add their child using their full name not realising that the page is public and can be searched on Google.

TIP The group name is the class name 

ONE FUNDRAISING PAGE PER STUDENT- pre-created **recommended**

ADVANTAGE: Quick set up. Use the csv file bulk upload feature

No burden on parents- they simply search their child’s name on the event landing page.

Childrens’ privacy is maintained as the uploaded list is using first name and last initial only

The page is pre-created by event admin

DISADVANTAGE You need a list of every student in csv or excel format. Cost is $200 +GST for bulk upload

TIP  Use the student’s first name and last initial for privacy as well as their class name.

ONE FUNDRAISING PAGE PER STUDENT – create their own

ADVANTAGE: Students are engaged and motivated with the system and can share their page.

A student can customize their own page

Suitable for senior students as an email address is required

DISADVANTAGE Not suitable for primary students as it causes a burden on parents to register using their own email address.

Privacy issue as names are displayed and available on Google search.