| High school means studies, enjoyment and a lot of | | | | to for information and ideas. Sites that support high |
| sports. Schools, like many corporations, are facing a | | | | school fundraising claim to have 30% more catalog |
| financial crisis; the first things to go are the | | | | items, 45% more items sold, and 133% more donated |
| non-essentials. Unfortunately, in many schools sports | | | | items than the average live action event. |
| are one of the first to go. | | | | Online auctions that support the educational market |
| To avoid this, high school students and staff are | | | | have 30% more catalog items, 45% more items sold, |
| actively involved in fundraising events to support their | | | | and 133% more donated items than the average live |
| teams. In order to raise money, teams sell things like | | | | auction event. School-related auctions are doing very |
| candy bars, tee shirts, cookie dough, magazine | | | | well for themselves on the Internet. |
| subscriptions, and scratch cards, organize car washes, | | | | Students who are old enough can also go door to |
| bake sales, spaghetti dinners, and golf tournaments. | | | | door for fundraising. |
| They set up booths at grocery stores and malls, and | | | | With any school fundraising event, safety is a big |
| ask for cash sponsorships from local merchants. | | | | concern when using kids going door-to-door as sales |
| High school students are always on the Internet; so | | | | people. To keep everyone safe remember that all |
| online auction fundraisers are popular among the high | | | | fundraising activities involving kids (even high school |
| school crowd. There are hundreds of websites to go | | | | kids) should be supervised by a teacher or parent. |