Top Five Reasons to Choose an EcoLabel Green Fundraiser!

1. You can be proud to ask your supporters to buy eco-friendly, quality products for your fundraiser!

2. Parents that buy a green product to support your fundraiser are more likely to have one more conversation with their child about the environment than they would have otherwise had that day!

3. Educators can integrate lessons about the environment and being eco-friendly into the classroom instruction that will tie in nicely with your fundraiser.

4. Did your Mom ever say, "Do as I do, not as a say?" You are leading by example and children will remember talking about the environment for years to come.

5. Eco-friendly fundraising supports sustaining the Earth's resources for our children and our grandchildren.

GO GREEN FOR HOLIDAY 2008!

Whether or not you have already had a fall fundraiser, it is still to your advantage to add EcoLabel Fundraising's program! Your supports will buy Holiday Gifts, so why not earn 25% of each dollar they spend for your school?

Eco-friendly Lunch Bags- Fundraising De-Li-cious!

Lunch can be fun and healthy! Pack your kids lunch to make sure they are getting a healthy mid-day meal! EcoLabel Fundraising will be offering these whimsical lunch bags ($22.95) in many patterns. We love the lady bug pattern for girls and the jungle for boys. (or vice versa!)

The fabrics are produced in accordance with strict environmental laws and are Oeko-Tex certified; the coating is made from acrylic and not PVC. The manufacturer uses no chlorine and only water soluble dyes in the production process.

Long Live the Traditional Non-Profit or School Auction!

We at EcoLabel Fundraising love hearing about the great traditional fund-raising events like Autumn Galas or Annual Auctions. The traditional and anticipation for the supporters and, in a school's case, students, is irreplaceable. We know that it can be daunting for the organizers, but keep up the good work Auction and Carnival event organizers around the country!

Some of our staff talked about those events recently. I recalled back to the day when I would go to and work at the church fund-raising's Fall Festival. My brother and I would look forward to playing the games and eating all those homemade pies! If they had done away with it, we would have been devestated!

Keep it up! I wish I could attend every one of our cooperating or potentially cooperating school or non-profit's Gala, Auction or Festival. What fun that would be!

Having a fund-raising plan is like having a diversified portfolio. We would love to help you raise all that extra money above and beyond your big annual event! Spend your energy on making those memories last for your children and supporters, we'll take the work out of the other fundraising drive for you!

Happy Apple Bobbing, Ring Tossing, Silent Auction Bidding, Craft Making, Bingo Playing, Wheel Spinning, Tractor Racing, Pie Eating, Face Painting......

Welcome!

I have a secret to admit. I may as well start this blog off truthfully, so here goes...I'm not tough enough to be a teacher. Don't get me wrong, most people that know me would say that I am very resilient, can tackle any challenge and have weathered many difficult storms. However, I am not tough enough to be a teacher.

Can someone out there please explain how it is possible to teach for 35 years? Both my parents were in educators. I heard all the stories growing up, yet I still wanted to give it a shot. After receiving my undergraduate Business degree and working for a few years in the business world, I ventured off to get my Master's Degree in Education with rose-colored glasses on the entire time. I found it to be much more difficult than working in the business world. Through it all, I still have the tremendous love of learning.

Fast forward to the present. I started EcoLabel Fundraising with great empathy for teachers and administrators. I was there for a short time - handling the pressures of the classroom, the paperwork, the parents, the administrators and your own family life. My Father was a school administrator, so I understand how all the same pressures fall on the administrator weighing heavily in different areas.

I got to know all the paperwork involved with lesson planning, keeping up with notes to parents and district professional developments plans. I decided, "why not create a system that takes all the work out of it for the staff?" How many lost checks or money envelopes can I teacher chase down?

We created a completely paperless system which is extremely low maintenance for teachers and administrators. We also created a line that is healthy. Healthy for children, healthy for the environment and healthy for learning. I wanted to emphasize that whole "ethical" package by:

• Promoting healthy products for the environment. How can we teach about preserving our Earth only one day a year ? How about promoting the message over the entire year or even two weeks by keeping it on everyones' minds through an EcoLabel Fundraising drive?
• Taking the lesson planning work out of it for the teachers for one week for a lesson a day. We are changing the face of the traditional fundraisers we have seen in schools for the last 25 years which make more work for teachers. Making more work for anyone creates more stress for them which inhibits their ability to do their job the best they can.
• Buying fair-trade products that are manufactured under ethical conditions as opposed to asking our children to sell products manufactured by children in oppressed situations.
  
• Focusing less on asking our children to peddle unhealthy foods as the main focus of the fundraiser.
• Making less work for the school staff so they can focus on educating our children. We ship directly to the home of the person(s) buying products to support your fundraiser. We take payments directly thru our secure website. No check or cash collecting at the school.

We hope our program excites you as much as it excites us. We have investing much thought and time into developing a program that is best for all stakeholders in the fundraising process. Read our next post to learn more about how we are prepared to best serve you in every way!

Welcome to "Respecting our Earth, Raising your Funds, and Educating our Future."

Humbly yours,

Jeanne Reslan, M.A.T.
Founder/President
EcoLabel Fundraising
t.877-eco-1141
www.ecolabelfundraising.com