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FUND RAISING
The Board of School Directors recognizes that fundraising by parent groups, student groups, and booster organizations may be necessary to support many of the activities and athletics in MSAD 71. In order to balance fundraising efforts throughout the district, this policy will address coordination, types of fund raising activities, and the approval process.
To coordinate various fundraising efforts, the District Administrative Team shall meet annually to discuss and schedule the fundraising campaigns planned for each school. The parent groups, student groups, and booster organizations shall meet with their faculty advisors prior to the end of each school year to present their fundraising plans for the upcoming school year.
The Principal and Superintendent shall
approve all fundraising efforts.
The administration is charged with the responsibility for making rules,
regulations, and procedures for the conduct of fundraising activities.
The Superintendent shall report the annual schedule to the Board and post the fund raising calendar on the District Website.
The Board recognizes that circumstances will arise during the course of the school year which may result in student-led fundraising efforts which otherwise could not be presented to the Superintendent at the end of the previous year. Such fundraising proposals shall be presented to and reviewed by the Principal and Superintendent on a case by case basis and, if approved, posted on the District website.
Funds derived from authorized groups and organizations shall be expended to benefit the specific activity or group of students they support.
Fundraising shall be conducted in such a manner as to offer minimum competition to local commercial concerns.
There shall be no fund drives in the schools by non-school sponsored activities.
All sales of other than school sponsored
items on school premises are prohibited, with the exception that newspapers
prepared and published by students of the District, but not school sponsored,
may be sold and/or distributed in like manner as the school sponsored
newspapers.
School-sponsored activities should be of a type that is not designed to
primarily promote profits for an outside commercial agency using the schools
as a vehicle for its own commercial benefits. Rather they should be programs
designed to promote educational opportunities for students.