Whether you're a band, cheerleading team, football team, baseball team, basketball team, soccer team, Phoneraiser can help with your fundraising goals!!

• Determine the use of the funds
  • Trips
  • Uniforms
  • Equipment
  • Field repair
  • Trophies
  • Coach recognition awards
• Be sure to include the below 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 how much money your team wants to raise
  • Average cell phone will generate $3.00
  • PDA’s average $10 each
  • Inkjet cartridges average $0.50 each
• 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 team 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 fundraiser
  • If your students go to others schools where they may serve as mentors, ask the students to collect phones on their behalf for the team
  • Use cell phone collection to get free admission to an event (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
• Pick a collection/shipping lead who:
  • Secures mailing labels and sufficient shipping box
  • Is sure to tape boxes securely for safe shipping
  • Review the Smart Shipping segment on the website
  • Ship when you have collected at least 20 cell phones/PDA’s and inkjet cartridges.

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!