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Selling products door-to-door, baked goods sale, car wash, asking for donations… Aren’t you tired of traditional fundraisers? Here are 4 reasons why you should let them go and use FundScrip instead:

Save Time

Traditional fundraisers eat up on your free time. Planning, preparing the material, baking and all other requirements to execute such fundraising is so time-consuming and it can become exhausting very quickly when you live in a fast-paced environment like most families do in North America. As a parent, do you really want to go door-to-door on evenings after work or on weekends to raise money for your child’s class or sports team?

FundScrip doesn’t require any of this. Order gift cards and for every card purchased, a donation is automatically given to your cause. Using gift cards to pay for your every day expenses is great, but you can also use them to give as gifts on birthdays and other occasions.

Save Money

How many times have you bought your own child’s chocolate just so he or she wouldn’t have to go in the whole neighborhood to sell them, or bought some from a child at your front door just to support him or her? You don’t necessarily want chocolate, but you know they need to sell the whole box and you want to help.

With FundScrip, you pay for what you get. Don’t waste money on things you don’t need or don’t want! We have around 230 retailers from which you can choose. Pay for your food or your gas and raise donations without having to put extra money! Also, joining FundScrip is free.

A Healthy Alternative

Selling chocolate door-to-door is not only time-consuming, but it is also unhealthy. So are baked goods. According to the Canadian Obesity Network, one in 4 adult Canadians and one in 10 children (for a total of 6 million Canadians) have clinical obesity. Do we really want to teach our children that the best way to raise money is through selling chocolate and baked goods? It’s basically giving them an excuse to eat sweets.

It’s Simple and Easy

With a lot less planning to do, FundScrip’s program is simple and easy. You shop as usual and you raise donations, which are all in one place and easy to track. Group administrators also get support and advice from a fundraising coach, which makes it even easier to manage a group and customer service is available to make sure everyone is satisfied.