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Fundraising Tips: How to Ask for Donations + Free Worksheet

Planning a fundraiser is often the easy part — it’s how to ask for donations that often leaves people mystified, especially if you’re a team of volunteers who haven’t before.  The bottom line: “It’s not rocket science; it’s relationship stuff,” says David Goodwin, a...

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Sharp Ideas for Academic Enrichment

Cheddar Up is always abuzz with academic enrichment programs — and we love to see it! Our users come up with such fun ideas for after school programs, extended day programs, and summer enrichment classes that we wish we could participate. Here are some of our favorite...

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Using Venmo for Nonprofits

If you landed here, you’re probably wondering if you can use Venmo for nonprofits (which includes using Venmo for PTAs, HOAs, churches, and charities)? The answer is layered: Yes, you could with Venmo's charity profiles. But should you use Venmo for nonprofit...

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10 Reasons to Implement a PTA Payment Solution

10 Reasons to Implement a PTA Payment Solution

Implementing online PTA payment solutions can help increase your efficiency and community involvement,  save time for volunteers, make payments more secure, and eliminate complicated reporting. Bonus: You can collect payments and create forms online, both under the same account, for free. Need more convincing? Here, we detail 10 ways a PTA payment system makes life easier for your board and school community. 

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10 Unique Fall Event Ideas

Cheddar Up, your party HQ, here with back to school event ideas, fall fundraiser ideas, fall event ideas and more to help you make the most of this busy, fun season. While we specialize in group management tools, we can also help you organize events in your own...

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