FundraiseOnline for Schools
School Case Study – Gulf
Harbour School, Auckland
Gulf Harbour School approached FundraiseOnline with the aim of raising
funds through the service in conjunction with one of their annual school
events, the School Walkathon, undertaken by all of its pupils. 600 pages
were set up, the event completed, and the school had raised in excess of
$9,500 through FundraiseOnline.
With the ability to solicit donations from relatives living across New
Zealand and around the world, the school found that close to 20% of
donations through FundraiseOnline were from outside of New Zealand – a
totally new and previously untapped source of funds.
What is FundraiseOnline?
FundraiseOnline is a leading web based service provider to the not for profit
sector. We have been providing web donation support capability to the sector for
over 6 years, and have facilitated the raising of over $15 million in that time.
We provide this service to Australian not-for-profit entities, as well as
providing our services in New Zealand and around the world. If you are looking
to raise funds for your club, FundraiseOnline has the tools, the track record
and the people to help you.
We have worked with hundreds of charities to further refine our service
offering to make sure it is specific to the sector, and we strive to provide the
very best quality of service, all the time.
How does it work?
We have a range of service offerings that can support your fundraising
efforts. Our
information
sheet carries details, but briefly these include:
1. Event focused fundraising: Your pupils or school
supporters undertake events or challenges, register on our site, build a web
page (12 clicks and 2 minutes!) and then seek donations from their network –
everything is web based, there is no cash handling so its safe, very low
risk and very low administration impact.
2. Ticketing for events: If you are having an event that
you want to sell tickets for, we can manage that through the site – low
cost, low admin, highly effective. We are always developing new
functionality for the site, and your feedback helps us do just that.
3. Specific fundraising targets: Need new equipment?
You can set your page up within minutes and ask your community for financial
support, and spread the word quickly and easily through FundraiseOnline.
4. Subscriptions and Annual Fees: You can easily email your
parents and pupils through FundraiseOnline and get fees and subscriptions paid
quickly and easily, with a minimum of maintenance and manual work. Parents are
more likely to pay using FundraiseOnline, as they are able to utilise their
credit cards, get the extra settlement time to pay and also collect their reward
points from the payment.
5. Curriculum or sports team travel: FundraiseOnline has a
partnership with Defining Moments, Australia’s leading travel service provider
to schools. You can raise your travel funds through FundraiseOnline, and have
all your travel needs taken care of through Defining Moments.
What does it cost?
Our focus is on delivering low cost, low risk, highly sustainable and
effective fundraising capability to you. We charge a 5% service fee on
donations made through FundraiseOnline and this covers our processing costs.
Like any service provider we also get charged, and pass on, credit card
fees. FundraiseOnline is charged $0.28 per transaction – we DO NOT pass this
charge on, making our total service fees the lowest available in the
fundraising market.
Here's an example of what this looks like with a typical donation of $30:
| Total Donation | $30.00 |
| Administration Fee of 5% | $1.50 |
| GST @ 10% | $0.15 |
| CC Processing fee 1.3% | $0.39 |
| CC Fee Per Transaction | $0.00 (we do not pass
on the $0.28) |
| Total Fees | $2.04 |
| Donation to Charity |
$27.96 |
We support transparency of fees charged in within the Not-for-Profit sector.
When you donate anywhere, always make sure you ask the question – how much of
what I’m donating will get to the charity.
FundraiseOnline also provides other solutions that we can discuss with you –
email
Robyn@fundraiseonline.com.au and let her know what you are looking for.
What are the benefits?
We provide internet capability that is low cost, low risk and proven –
in fact, its so good, we've won awards for it.- Funds received by us are settled monthly – you don’t have to wait
until targets are reached, or the event is over – in fact, we often find
that many fundraisers continue to receive donations until well after
their events are finished.
- We support hundreds of charities in New Zealand and internationally
and have done so for four years.
- Our costs to you are very low, and they will stay that way.
- The administration load is negligible – wherever possible we
automate functionality.
- We use the most secure web technology and encryption tools available
today, supported by robust, state of the art database technology that is
industry standard.
We would welcome the opportunity to work with you and your school to help
you raise funds through FundraiseOnline. You can email our Customer Service
Manager on
Robyn@fundraiseonline.com.au for more details or to sign on.