Asking for money can be painful. Asking for money, cash and checks, and paper forms is even worse. It doesn’t have to be so hard! Families want to buy online, and you can make it easy on them. You can also make it easy on yourself. Put your biggest fundraising efforts on autopilot while raising more money and growing PTA membership at your school. Here are four easy fundraisers you… read more →
Before you do anything — make sure you’ve set up your MemberHub site! See the getting started guide for site admins. This guide will take you through the most important steps, from logging in to setting up your school store for back-to-school season. For more help setting up your school store, sign up for one of our daily webinars! Just in time for back-to-school season, here’s some real advice from real… read more →
MemberHub is a tool that makes running your PTA easier. Membership drives, fundraisers, good standing requirements, and family engagement are all simplified. Here are the Top 5 ways MemberHub makes PTA’ing easier. 1. Manage all parts of your PTA, with one tool. Sell PTA memberships online — allowing busy parents to sign up any time. All their membership information is automatically reported to the state. Remit the proper dues to your state… read more →
Your time is valuable as a PTA leader! Here’s how selling PTA memberships in your MemberHub store saves time and money. 1. Eliminate data entry and manual state reporting. When families buy PTA memberships in your MemberHub store, the member data is automatically and accurately reported to your state, saving you time and reducing errors. This is a no-hassle way to report required member data to your state PTA every… read more →
Last year in the state of North Carolina 580 students dropped out of high school due to a lack of engagement between school and household. We’ve always known that it is important to a child’s education for their parents to be involved, but now with the recent passing of the Family Engagement in Education Act, parents are required by federal law to care about their child’s education.
“I can teach you skills, but I can’t teach you desire.” It’s the tried and true call to action, which every coach pulls out of their bag of tricks. It’s often a last attempt to inspire their team, to show them that hustle and inspiration make a victory. Motivation is a tricky animal to conquer; it can be spawned internally or externally, but the best type of motivation springs from… read more →
You need your members, volunteers and constituents to serve, right? The easier you make it for them to find information about an event and signup the more likely it will be to get them engaged and giving back. It might be a large event where you need several volunteers or it may just be a snack party where you need parents to signup to bring something. People want to serve…but… read more →
To check-in or not to check-in that is the question. What am I talking about? Well, location-based mobile social networking applications of course! You know those occasionally informative status updates you see in your Facebook and Twitter feeds that tell exactly where Charles is eating lunch right now. I don’t know about you but my initial reaction is usually to think about that location and what it’s all about. Are… read more →
In the past 5 years the ability to share pictures and photos online has become second nature. It has been suggested that over 2.5 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook every month. That’s ridiculous. Back in September the popular photo sharing site Flickr announced that its 5 billionth photo had been uploaded. We all love to share photos and we have lots of them. Speaking as a father with young… read more →
No one would likely doubt the importance that text messages play in our culture’s communication practices these days. From teens to grandparents, an increasing number of individuals are relying on text messaging to communicate with and avoid phone calls :). Even things like text message marketing are starting to become a reality. Potentially, text messages will start to be as interuptive as email is these days (um, which is… read more →
