Fundraising Car Magnets

Car Magnets for Montessori Schools

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Montessori School Custom Car Magnets

Montessori School Fundraising

Hey, you learn something new every day. We have been making custom fundraising car magnets for Montessori Schools for about 10 years, and I just realized that I really had no idea what a Montessori School was. So, I Googled it. There are an endless number of sites that try to explain how a Montessori School works, and what makes it different from traditional public schools.

After reading through about a dozen sites, I have distilled this down to the following sentence: “Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori and characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological, physical, and social development.”

Obviously it’s much more in-depth than that, but it sure sounds like it would have been a lot more fun than the public schools I went to in the 60’s.

Okay, so why would a Montessori School need a car magnet? In America, the majority of Montessori Schools are privately owned and do not receive financial support from the government. A growing number of them are joining the Public School System, but almost all of their money comes from tuition. This leaves a funding gap that needs to be filled by fundraising.

Most private schools put on elaborate Black Tie events to do the bulk of their fundraising, usually under the classification of Capital Funding Campaign. This is where like-minded patrons with deep pockets write the big checks that pay for the new gymnasium or new science lab.

But for the smaller projects which are funded by the PTA or PTO, a car magnet fundraiser could be a very important piece of the fundraising puzzle. An average size school could make several thousands of dollars by selling custom car magnets designed by ARC Marketing.

We’ll do all of the hard work; we’ll design your magnet, we’ll print and ship your magnet, we’ll create the collateral material you’ll need to sell your magnet (flyers, website images, emails, etc.) and we will rush your re-order when you sell out! Couldn’t’ be easier. Call us at 760-743-6340 and we’ll get started today!

Fundraising Car Magnets

Color Guard Fundraising

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Color Guard Car Magnets

Color Guard Fundraising Car Magnets

Is Color Guard a sport, or a discipline? Both, according to those who participate. Either way, Color Guard is an Extracurricular Activity and is not funded by the school. This leaves most of the heavy lifting to the parents. This is why fundraising is just as important for Color Guard parents as it for parents of any high school sport or activity.

Like most sports, there is a lot of gear to buy for Color Guard. Of course you have uniforms to buy, but you also might need to provide your own Flag, Rifle and Sabre. Have you priced this stuff lately?

But wait… there’s more! We just Googled “Color Guard Expenses”, and here is what one school says you should expect to pay:

  • Marching Band Fee $100 per student
  • Uniform Cleaning Fee $50 per student
  • Instrument Rental Fee $45 per student
  • Travel Expenses $500 – $550 per student

And there could be more. There could be additional fees for Auxiliary Instructional Staff, Materials for the Field Shows, and on and on.

The point is that Color Guard is just as expensive as the main-stream sports such as basketball and football, except that the parents need to pay a greater portion of those expenses than most other sports.

Let’s bottom line this, fundraising is critical to the continued success of your school’s Color Guard. Every dollar raised through fundraising is one more dollar not coming out of the parent’s pockets. You can hold a car wash every weekend, and a bake sale every weekday, but those fundraisers are really not well received. We’re biased, but we think the easiest way to raise money is with a custom car magnet. Depending on how many magnets you sell, you can make $500 to $5,000 if you sell the magnets for $10 each (and that’s the price that most Color Guards sell their magnets for).

Let us design a Color Guard magnet for your school; no obligation. Then you can decide if this is something that will help your Color Guard (it will!). Give us a call at 760-743-6340 or visit our website at www.arcmktg.com today.

Fundraising Car Magnets

Catholic School Fundraising

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Catholic School Fundraising

Fundraising Car Magnets for Catholic Schools

Why do Catholic Schools love our custom car magnets? Is it for the money that can be made as a fundraiser, or is it so that they can show off? The obvious answer is “Both”.

Catholic schools are private schools, and do not receive any public funding. Most of the funding comes from tuition, but tuition alone does not pay all of the bills. The really creative Catholic School Parent/Teacher groups will find ways to help close this budget gap with various fundraisers.

Some of our Catholic School customers buy 500 or 1,000 customized magnets before the beginning of each school year, and then just give one to each parent for free. Their goal is to increase the awareness of their school in their community. You can imagine the impact of have a thousand cars driving all over town with your Catholic School logo on each car. This is the type of exposure that cannot be achieved with any other method of advertising.

Some of our other Catholic School customers are actually the PTA’s, PTO’s and other Parent/Teacher groups. They have us design an awesome car magnet, then they sell them to parents and faculty for $10 each. The same number of cars now have their magnet on them, broadcasting their school logo and mission statement day in, and day out. The big difference is this… the PTA now has $8,625 to donate to the school to help with scholarships, computers, and anything else the school needs.

Taking advantage of a car magnet fundraiser is easy… we’ll do all of the work! We’ll design your magnet, print your magnet, provide you with flyers, create the email images you need to inform your parents, create the website images you need to post on your school website… we do it all!

To get started, just give us a call at 760-743-6340 or visit our website at www.arcmktg.com.

Fundraising Car Magnets

Die Cut Letter Car Magnets for Schools

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Die Cut Letter car magnets for schools

Die Cut Letter car magnets

School Car Magnets…

Your new custom car magnet does not have to be round or oval shaped (although those are the most durable shapes). Your new car magnet can be almost any shape, and we do not charge extra for uniquely shaped magnets.

Die Cut Letter Magnets, like those shown above, are very popular with schools. Combining your school colors with your letter or initials, and adding the school name creates a very impactful car magnet.

One downside to the die cut letter magnets is that there is not much room for words. Adding more than just the school name can mean hiding the die cut letters behind all of the text. Since the most effective car magnets have just one or two words (don’t forget that most people will be trying to read your car magnet from several car lengths away and sometimes at freeway speeds), our die cut letter magnets get your message out there. The key is to be bold with your school initials and school colors, but keep the text to a minimum for greatest impact.

Let our expert designers help you with your design (at no charge!). Give us a call at 760-743-6340 and let’s get your new magnet designed.

Fundraising Car Magnets

Car Magnets for School Fundraising

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School Car Magnets

Car Magnets for School Fundraising

There’s still time to get custom fundraising car magnets for your school. We can usually get your custom car magnets to you in about 2 weeks, so let’s get started designing your new magnets!

There are hundreds of different ways you can make money for your PTA, PTO or School. Car magnets just might be the easiest and most profitable. If you did an internet search for “School Fundraising Ideas”, you get a bunch of very questionable suggestions: cake walk, haunted house, etc. Do you really think you’ll make much money doing things like that? And what about the time commitment? Can you imagine the man-hours needed to put a Haunted House fundraiser together? You’ll probably lose money on most of the suggested fundraisers you find on-line. Is the huge amount of time and effort to create and staff these events worth the meager amount of money you’ll make? Answer = NO!

Car magnets on the other hand, practically sell themselves.  Plus, after the event (while you’re counting your money), the car magnet is broadcasting your school name all over town.

Getting started couldn’t be easier, because our art department is going to do all of the heavy lifting. Just fill out our Virtual Magnet request form, give us a few ideas of what you want on your magnet design (school name, mascot, colors, etc.) and one of our amazing artists will create a preliminary design for you in a day or less. From there we fine-tune the design until you have just the look you want. Then we print them, ship them and you sell them to parents and faculty. Easy!

For more information, just give us a call at 760-743-6340, or fill out the Virtual Magnet form by clicking here!

Fundraising Car Magnets

The Wood Acres School

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The Woods Acres School car magnet

The Woods Acres School car magnet

School Car Magnets are the biggest category of sales here at ARC Marketing. We design and print custom magnets for hundreds of schools every year. Some are somewhat basic; an oval or round magnet that includes all of the basic elements. Those basic elements are:

  • School Name
  • School Colors
  • School Mascot or Logo
  • Town Name

Some schools challenge us to get even more creative by using unique outside shapes and uncommon themes.

The Wood Acres School wanted us to design a car magnet that resembled a postage stamp, so the design-team at ARC Marketing created the above magnet. Intricately die-cut along the edges to resemble the perforated edge of a postage stamp, and post marked with their home town of Marietta, Georgia, this is one of our all-time favorite magnet designs!

Here is a little more information about the school, in their own words…

Latitude 33° 59´ 41.27 ̋ North   Longitude 84° 25´ 47.25̋ West

That’s The Wood Acres School geographically speaking!  With a huge compass rose emblazoned on the plaza of our school to being known as the Navigators with a bright green alligator as our mascot, The Wood Acres School is a well established, well known, and well respected private independent school in metropolitan Atlanta.  Students begin learning @ the Woods as early as two years old and graduate after completing 8th grade to continue their education in private, public, magnet, charter, or specialty high schools.  Wood Acres has been educating the future since 1969 and is proud of both its rich traditions as well as its focus on developing resilient, compassionate, engaging, and articulate young men and women ready to tackle life and living in the 21st century and beyond.  Besides holding regional accreditation with distinction, The Wood Acres School is also an International Spanish Academy through the Embassy of Spain with outstanding second language learning opportunities beginning with the Three’s and culminating with an 8th grade capstone trip to Spain.  Not only do the arts thrive @ the Woods, but also STEM has a home here with three dedicated science labs and a nationally recognized experiential science program as the adopted curriculum.  All this is nestled on 10 bucolic forested acres with walking paths, playfields, and places to laugh, learn, and linger with friends, old and new.  “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”  Perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson was imagining a not-so-little school tucked away from the distractions of everyday life where children have the freedom to grow, learn, and enjoy being a child.  Experience The Wood Acres School today.  Visit our website at www.woodacresschool.org to learn more.

Let our design-team create a unique, conversation starting car magnet for your school! It’s easy to get started. Just fill out our Virtual Magnet Request Form by clicking here!

Fundraising Car Magnets

Assets School: Learning that transforms lives

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In our “Client Spotlight”, we enjoy letting the world know a little bit more about our clients, in their own words…

School Car Magnets

School Car Magnets

Assets School 60th Anniversary Car MagnetSchool Fundraising Car Magnets is the best way to raise money for the programs that your standard budget does not cover.

Assets School is a critical and vital part of the educational system in Hawaii that provides premier educational services to students who learn differently, such as students who are gifted and/or dyslexic, or simply bright learners struggling in school. Assets provides a learning environment for youngsters who faltered in typical, mainstream settings and need an alternative approach. There is no other school like it in the State.

Over the next several years, Assets School will experience unprecedented growth and expansion. Recently, Assets purchased the three-and-a-half acre campus that they had leased for the last 21 years with plans to build a new campus for their K-8 program on it. The two-year construction project is scheduled to begin in June 2015. A capital campaign will be launched to raise funds, support, and awareness for building the new campus.

Also in June 2015, Assets High School will move to a new location and will be named: Assets High School: Academy of the Pacific Campus. This will provide Assets a greater capacity to serve students who learn differently.

2015 marks Assets’ 60th anniversary. Assets School has been transforming students’ lives since its inception in 1955. Our theme, “60 years of learning that transform lives,” celebrates Assets’ vision to create a community in which all children thrive and realize their own potential, so that society benefits from their unique talents and abilities.

With so many incredible milestones in 2015, we plan to share our pride with the greater Hawaii community in a variety of different ways.

The 60th anniversary car magnet will be given to parents who join our parent association group, Assets Parent Ohana (APO), this year. The magnet will also be given as a gift to some of our major donors to celebrate our school. Our hope is to raise Assets’ visibility in our community as many of us proudly display our magnets on our cars. Living on Oahu, we tend to spend a fair amount of time sitting in our cars during our commute. During our valuable commute time people will come to know that Assets has been transforming lives for 60 years. We couldn’t be more proud and will show off our beautiful custom car magnets with pride!