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Fundraising Ideas for Schools/PTA

Whether you’re in elementary school, middle school, high school, college, or private school, Phoneraiser has great fundraising ideas to help with your fundraising goals!

• Determine how the funds will be used
  • Computers
  • Playground equipment
  • Recycling equipment
  • School trip or event
  • New uniforms
• 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
  • In the US alone, we already retired more than 500 million cell phones
  • Each month, an additional ten million cell phones are retired
  • Almost all inkjet cartridges can be recycled
• Determine how much money needs to be raised
  • The average working flip phone will generate between $2.00 and $3.00
  • The average working PDA’s average between $10.00 and $12.00
  • Palm-sized ink jet cartridges average $.25 – $.50
• Place collection box in a supervised area
• Put up outdoor signage asking people to donate their used cell phones
• Gather a small group of people to help you and give them specific tasks
  • Letter to the parents announcing the program
    • Ask parents to Facebook all relatives and friends who may know the child
    • Set deadline date to bring phones for initial drive – plan for a four-week window
    • Send monthly reminders via email to the parents
  • Contact Local Businesses
    • Ask them to set up collection boxes in their stores for your school fundraiser
    • Or donate their used phones to your school
  • If you have high school students who come to your elementary school (i.e. classroom readers/sports), have them ask the children to bring the phones
  • Use cell phone collection as means of entry to an event (i.e. bring a cell phone to Fall Festival to get in free)
  • Have 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
    • Ship when you have collected at least 20 cell phones/PDA’s and inkjet cartridges
• Create a Grade Level Competition – offer an Ice Cream or Pizza party for that class or grade level that collects the most phones.

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!

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