Gift Card Fundraisers

Amazing gift card fundraisers can net your school, club, or church big bucks with little or no investment! High schools, churches, non-profit organizations, and sports teams can earn money for uniforms, out-of-town trips, choir robes, or furnishings by enrolling in one of the most successful moneymaking programs around. With little or no money down, fundraising companies offer awesome opportunities to cash in on unused gift cards. How many times has someone received a merchandise certificate as a birthday, anniversary, or graduation present, only to discover months later that the certificate has been unused? Don't answer! But now groups can take advantage of all those unused certificates by collecting and trading them in for cash! There's absolutely no risk and most gift card fundraisers require participants to pay nothing to enroll in this no headache, no hassle moneymaking program. "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it" (Proverbs 10:22).

Raising money for charitable organizations, to promote children's education, or to contribute to churches and faith-based groups is easy with gift card fundraisers. Here's how it works: schools, churches, or team members solicit the services of students, family and friends to gather as many unused plastic gift certificates as possible. Turn in the unredeemed certificates to the fundraising company, along with the appropriate forms, and wait on the checks to hit the mail! Gift card fundraiser programs pay a certain percentage of the total value of the unredeemed merchandise back to the participants. Teams that collect $1,000 in unused gift certificates can net as much as 60% of the original value, or $600. The more people get involved the greater the earnings. Fundraisers can send out letters to family members, or pass out flyers to students for a school-wide effort to collect as many unused tags as possible. Offer a cash prize for the team that brings in the most certificates, or a percentage of the earnings to those who top the list with the highest valued tag.

Other gift card fundraisers offer groups a percentage of commercial issuers' proceeds. Grocery store chains, retail shops, office suppliers, and specialty shops offer customers merchandise cards for an initial fee, usually five dollars. Prepaid store placards work similar to a checking account, and can be reloaded with cash and used again and again to pay for purchases at the checkout without interest fees. Purchases are limited to the amount of money on the account. Groups enrolled in moneymaking programs qualify to receive a portion of cash charged each time customers pay for purchases. Fees for enrolling in programs may vary from company to company. Fundraising groups can surf the web to find the best deals and offerings from national merchants. Non-profit and faith-based organizations, public and private schools, and youth teams may all qualify.

Many online companies provide opportunities to earn cash with fundraising discount cards. This program works great on college campuses, at secondary and middle grades schools, for churches, or sports teams. Companies offer a chance to earn extra money by selling discount certificates at pizzerias or other community retailers. The placards are the same size and shape as a credit card and fit easily into a wallet or purse. Redeemed at local pizza shops, dry cleaners, supermarkets, restaurants, car washes, or specialty shops, the placard qualifies the cardholder for discounts on merchandise and services. For every cardholder account sold, fundraising teams get a cash amount or percentage of sales. Since pizza is a college campus staple, groups could really cash in by selling the discounts at dormitories, or anywhere students hang out. Teams can get creative by sending out direct mailers to local residents offering merchants' discounts for savings on family dining.

Other programs for selling fundraising discount cards require schools, churches, and other groups to purchase gift placards from participating retailers at a discount. The fundraising group then sells them to the general public at face value. Many programs allow schools to profit from online orders made via host websites. Parents of high school students can sign up for a free online account on fundraising provider websites to purchase gift placards at face value to benefit the high school using a specific code or ID number. Companies receive online orders and make full payment to the high school. The high school's fundraising group distributes the prepaid gift cards and sends back a check to the fundraising provider for the amount of the order LESS the amount of their program discount. The school nets the difference for significant cash earnings toward its fund raising program.

The benefit of using fundraising discount cards is that everyone wins. Merchants sell more merchandise from customers who may not have spent money otherwise. Shoppers benefit by using prepaid merchandise cards at the checkout counter which can be refilled and used repeatedly without incurring exorbitant financing charges. Fundraising groups from schools, churches, savings clubs, non-profit and faith-based organizations earn extra cash effortlessly by participating in moneymaking programs that require little or no initial investment. All it takes is researching the Web to find online fundraising providers that offer the most lucrative deals. The key to a successful fundraising campaign is finding the right product at the right price for little or no investment. Fundraising discount cards work because they require little or no upfront cash from participants. Cards are popular vehicles for consumers to make cashless convenient purchases and can be refilled. In addition to ease of use, online programs provide participants with a steady stream of funds for very little effort.

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