One of the biggest complaints parents, teachers, and students have is with fundraising for student & group activities. To date, it remains to be a difficult challenge for organizations, clubs, churches, schools, and their athletic teams to raise money to support their activities. They use products like candy, soda pop, cookie dough and various paraphernalia. The students don't like selling it, and the parents don't like buying it.

It's generally a painful and unhappy situation and doesn't generate enough money for anyone involved. The kids and teams don't get enough money for their efforts and sales aren't high enough to maintain the enthusiasm and drive needed to succeed. Parents end up paying for what is needed out of their pockets.

You can revitalize your fundraising with a quality products and a familiar fundraising process that make it easy to do well quickly and reliably.

You can change the situation by using quality well known highly regarded products - Chicken Soup for the Soul books as the key new ingredient to act as lightning in a bottle and reinvigorate fundraising for kids.

There are over 50 Chicken Soup for the Soul books to choose from. They have an excellent reputation for quality and are well known in households all across the country.

Convenience - People love to read the short heartwarming stories. They can pick up a Chicken Soup for the Soul book, put on their PJ's and relax reading in bed or anywhere.

Control- People like Chicken Soup books because of the exquisitely designed short story format -- they can start reading and stop reading whenever they want to. They can take little bite size bits of inspiration and humor and come back for more whenever they want.

Value - They are recognized as being great and highly regarded - NY Times best sellers again and again. People know that they are a great value. Especially for families and kids, they pack far more value and are more convenient and more loved and appreciated than any other identified reading material in the world.

Here is a typical single school single team scenario (based on an actual situation):

One school with one high school dance team with 20 members

The team coach indicates that on average, each student sells 10 items. Some sell more and some of course, sell very little. But this is a good figure to use as a basis for calculation.

So 20 students sell ten books each = 200 books from one fundraising campaign over a two week period.

Chicken Soup for the Soul books cost $15 each

200 times $15 = $3,000.00

50 percent or $7.50 per book goes right to the dance team = $1500.00