EdBacker is Crowdfunding for Education
In the past, school fundraisers have mostly involved having students sell low-profit items that most people purchased out of a sense of obligation while the school received less than half the money raised. For a school district to raise money often involves proposing tax increases and waiting half a year for a budget to pass, which seldom does in some places. EdBacker is a startup that takes advantage of the popularity of crowdfunding and applies it specifically toward PTA group and school fundraising. In fact, its creator refers to it as “PTA made easy.” More than just raising money, it is a tool that consolidates volunteer signups and any other business a PTA performs into one platform. Not only that, it makes the fundraising aspect easier, more social, and more transparent.
With EdBacker, schools can raise money for important education-related projects, programs, events, supplies, technology or trips without having to wait for the district budget to pass. It is common for companies to work with schools to help meet budget shortfalls with donations, special pricing, programs, but it is not always possible for a single company to completely fulfill a school’s needs or meet all of its requests. Teachers spend all day in the classroom and most days outside of it grading, leaving little or no time to fundraise themselves. EdBacker combines the principles and technology of crowdfunding with a traditional event sponsorship model and makes parents an important part of the equation. It also offers a place for the businesses and foundations that want to help schools but cannot find the opportunities they seek. You can access the service from any computer or mobile device connected to the Internet, so troubles with a personal computer requiring system recovery services will not affect your fundraising campaign.
EdBacker’s technology and dedicated support team provide educators with all the resources and support they need to build a campaign and raise funds easily. Since Internet security is a vital concern when exchanging money online, EdBacker does not collect any of your personal identifiable information other than what is necessary and never shares it. It is free to sign up and post campaigns aside from a small percentage fee of funds raised and processing fees for online credit card payments. One thing somewhat unique to its style of crowdfunding is that it adds the fees to each campaign so that people see your total goal after fees, not including them, and you keep the full amount having already taken care of the extra beforehand automatically. With EdBacker, you can write a compelling story for your project accompanied by either a photo or video, then decide on rewards to go along with the different levels of donations. Overall, EdBacker is an innovative and necessary way for schools to raise money for the things that they desperately need without having people buy things that they do not.
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