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Best Practices – Scholar Dollars

Best Practices

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Recruiting

Recruiting is simple - it is asking people to sign up, for free and potentially turn some of their future, normal purchases into funding for your organization. When recruiting happens, we take over the effort and other than you being a beneficiary and cheerleader, we engage our technologies to start a flow of constant funding to your organization.

    • Begin immediately. No reason to wait.
    • Contact your Supporters, invite them to participate
    • Use prepared correspondence
    • Send to formal lists
      • Schools lists
      • Parent lists
      • Past Supporters
    • Send to informal lists
      • Who you know in the community
      • Friends, family, church, business acquaintances
      • Ask them to spread the word too
    • Every Interaction or Encounter
      • Make available via QR code or links in all correspondence or printed material
      • Add links and QR codes to websites like the schools, the teams, the PTO's etc.
      • Print QR code on materials for display at games, events, meetings, conferences, any time potential supporters may be present
    • Integrate into existing fundraising
      • If you have a professional organization helping you, put us together for mutual benefit. It is a Win/Win/Win.
      • When a product is sold or an order is placed
      • When a pledge is obtained
      • Integrated into vendor's order system (we will help this happen at no cost to you)
      • We can provide materials or support to integrate into your own materials
    • Encourage complete profiles
      • Privacy will always be protected
      • Maximize value to businesses that would support your cause
      • This helps generate new revenue opportunities

Communicate Purpose

    • Share with your supporters WHY the funds are needed
    • Keep them apprised of progress
    • Help them know how Scholar Dollars is helping accelerate results
    • Encourage them to shop at participating Merchants
    • Our purpose is to reduce or eliminate parental fees without additional sales, contributions, fundraising events etc. and ensure that any student/family that wants to participate has fewer, or no, financial restrictions.

Ongoing Communications

    • We don't expect you to carry the load, but help yourself by adding Scholar Dollars messages to regular communications
    • Encourage continued, and even more consistent use of Scholar Dollars Merchants to maximize results with minimal effort
    • Encourage your supporters to make sure they are receiving messages from us by checking their spam filters and ensuring that they are aware of how Scholar Dollars is impacting them

Coordinated Purchases

On occasion a school or team may need to purchase equipment for each participant. This is something that each will need to do, so it is not an additional purchase. By finding and documenting in the Mall, then when purchases are made they can earn for the same school or team.

Leaders can create multiple opportunities and help spread the ways that the program can turn everyday purchasing into new funding.

Completed Profiles

    • Privacy will always be protected
    • Maximize value to businesses that would support your cause (they may pay more to know non personal  — meta-data — information about their customers who are also your supporters)
    • This helps generate new funding opportunities in the future