The Best Elementary School Fundraising Projects in Highlands Ranch, CO

I set out on a mission to discover what types of projects our elementary schools here in Highlands Ranch are planning this year for raising funds. My purpose was to be able to give recognition on my blog to those schools that I feel have the most innovative projects.

In researching, I discovered that communication from the schools to parents and the public about these projects varied greatly from school to school. I utilized the websites of the schools to get my information. I chose this method as a more efficient way of gathering this inform- ation since I do not have contacts at 95% of the schools.

Here is what I discovered. Most of the websites have very little or no information about the school's fundraisers. Most of the information on fundraising was to be found in the newsletters most of which were linked on the websites. However, even in the newsletters, there was not much information in most cases.

My endeavor showed me that 90% of the schools need improvement in their communications, both on their websites and in their newsletters. This being said, there were some school sites and newsletters that stood out as being exceptional in their thorough presentation of information on upcoming projects.

The schools which stood out are Bear Canyon, Copper Mesa, Heritage and Wildcat Mountain. My first choice for the most innovative projects for fundraising is Wildcat Mountain. They are also first choice for the best newsletter and, from what I can ascertain, they are having the largest number of projects. My second choice for the most innovative projects and for the best newsletter is Heritage.

And here are the projects:

Wildcat Mountain Elementary

Collecting Campbells Soup Labels which they can exchange for items to use at their school

Selling Entertainment Books, Sally Foster wrapping paper and gifts and Wild for Bulbs-flower bulb sales

Collecting Box Tops for Education to exchange for items for their school

Encouraging the use of Target's Red Card which contributes to the school a % of all sales bought with the card

Recycling paper, plastic, cardboard, aluminum, inkjet and toner cartridges and cell phones

Family nights at Baskin Robbins and Red Robin when a % of the sales will go to the school.

Heritage Elementary

Recycling paper, plastic, cardboard, aluminum, inkjet and toner cartridges and cell phones

Selling cookie dough and Varsity Gold discount cards

Collecting Box Tops for Education

Family night with dinner sales and auctions

I encourage everyone to participate in the fundraising efforts of your neighborhood schools. The funds raised purchase things like trees, playground equipment, schools signs, items needed for school assemblies, computers, art room special equipment and more.