The Apex version of fundraising as we see it today (but we know there needs to be a 5.0 etc.), coverting all commerce into funding for schools by combining the interests of parents and community members with those of businesses and lifting all.
We aspire to implement these levels of results in every community possible, restoring funding to raise programs to their peak perfomance levels, eliminating high parental fees while maintaining optimal parental involvement, keeping students in school, and elevating communities through high individual achievement, high scholastic attainment, and supporting core values and interdpendency between communities who have synergistic interests with commerce.
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- Transformational source of Supplemental funding – done to augment core or Legacy shortages and eliminate parental fees and additional required contributions.
- Effortless fundraising while you buy your everyday purchases, from your local merchants.
- A quantum leap forward in how funding occurs, how much funding is available, and how passive funding can eclipse high effort, low return methods of today.
- Current estimated/targeted size of funding pool is $36B net (see current fundraising stats under Fundraising 3.0). Funding Pool will grow as Supporter base increases and additional Merchant types join the network.
- Geographically based on local retailers. Requires minimum of 1,000 supporters locally - can be from one or many schools, teams, or organizations.
- While 4.0 can be immediately implemented, the immediacy of the benefits will vary by market. Due to heavy sales and implementation effort in local communities, once implementation begins it will take 12-18 months per phase in each market. There are presently 4 phases planned. This is effort carried out by Scholar Dollars on behalf of our client partners.
- Proven platform and venue with over 10 billion similar transactions for businesses taking place each year
- Funding grows with inflation
- Converts normal retail purchasing into funding (80% of all purchasing is local)
- Monthly income
- Relationship based – build long term supporter relationships
- Supports multiple family interests and children
- Provides ongoing marketing and promotional support
- Systematically grows supporter base
- Focus on growing Contribution per Supporter (CPS)
- Continuity – year over year consistency
- Outsourceable Supporter Relationship Management (SRM) system and services
- Passive, residual funding from past efforts
- Clear growth path to increased funding for years to come