Upper Valley HEAL Healthy Fundraising Toolkit

Upper Valley HEAL encourages and challenges all Upper Valley School and Community Groups to help us build a healthier community by ending the use of fundraisers based on candy, baked goods, salty snacks, and other low nutrition foods. Our Healthy Fundraising Toolkit can help your group raise the money you need while supporting child and family health in the Upper Valley!

Healthy Fundraising 101

• Raising Money While Promoting Health in Schools (webinar version, 55 minutes)
• Raising Money While Promoting Health in Schools (pdf slides from webinar) A great webinar co-hosted by the National PTA and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Includes the rationale for healthier fundraising , provides planning tools, and examples of healthier fundraisers that have been implemented nationally. This webinar will help you re-think how you raise money for your school and community groups and clubs. UV HEAL recommends listening to the full webinar!
• Sweet Deals: School Fundraising Can be Healthy and Profitable: From the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Offers rationale behind healthier fundraising, as well as recommendations for fundraisers to pursue and to avoid, as well as lots of ideas for healthier fundraisers.
• Georgia PTA Resolution Regarding Fundraising

Online Fundraising Resources

• Yes, You Can! A Fresh Look at Healthy Fundraisers for Schools: Lots of great ideas for healthier fundraising.
• Alliance for a Healthier Generation: Healthy Fundraisers Page: A great collection of articles, ideas, and creative support for groups trying to develop healthier fundraising ideas.
• PTA fundraising web page Support for planning, choosing, and managing your fundraisers.
• Farm-Raisers Fundraisers that connect kids and local farms!
• Fundraisers Once and For All A new approach focusing on collaborative fundraising.