• Determine how the money will be used
  • Trips
  • Uniforms
  • Equipment
  • Field repair
  • Trophies
  • Coach recognition awards
• Be sure to include environmental statistics in all communications
  • One cell phone can contaminate 35,000 gallons of water (enough to provide water for 153 people for one year)
  • Cell phones and their batteries contain eight toxic substances, including arsenic, lead and mercury
  • We’ve already retired more than 500 million cell phones alone
  • Each month, an additional ten million cell phones are retired
  • Almost all inkjet cartridges can be recycled
• Determine amount of money to be raised by your club
  • Average cell phone will generate $3.00
  • PDA’s average $10 each
  • Inkjet cartridges average $0.50 each
• If applicable
  • Have a collection box at each game
  • Announce on the loud speaker that you can bring cell phones down at half time at every game
• Have each member’s family Facebook/email all friends and family to contribute their used cell phones to the team’s fundraiser
• Contact local businesses
  • Ask them to set up collection boxes in their stores for your school fundraiser
  • If your club members go to schools where they may serve as mentors, ask the students to collect phones on their behalf for the club
  • Use cell phone collection as means of entry to an event or to receive a discount of some type (i.e. bring a cell phone to Fall Festival to get in free)
  • Put outdoor signage asking people to bring in their used cell phones.
• Put an article in your local newspaper, community enewsletters/correspondence about your fundraiser.
• Appoint a collection/shipping lead who:
  • Secures mailing labels and sufficient shipping box
  • Is sure to tape boxes securely for safe shipping
  • Reviews the Smart Shipping segment on the website
  • Ships when your club has collected at least 20 cell phones/PDA’s and inkjet cartridges

Whether you’re on in math club, soccer club, football club, cheerleading club, volleyball club, science club, environmental club, engineering club, academic club, key club, drama club, Phoneraiser can help with your fundraising goals.

NOTE: The average household has 3-5 used cell phones in drawers. Be sure to ask your neighbors on both sides to triple your household’s contribution to the recycling/fundraising effort!