In the past I have always supported school activity fundraisers by buying raffle tickets or whatever item they were selling. Now they have started just sending you a text message saying their name and I am raising money for this activity. Click on this link to donate to our account. Maybe I'm old fashioned but this just don't seem right to me
Maybe this is just how things are done now.

Spending $18 for cookie dough always seems a bit expensive.

if they can't beg in person, they don't get the prize....

and when you know the margin the school or scouts make I would just pull a 5 out of my wallet and say here it's a donation that makes you what multiple boxes of xyz make you and I don't have to wreck my health eating that.

I have no problem buying raffle tickets or some overpriced food item. What i don't like is getting a message saying just put some money in our account. If the kids are selling something it seem like they are putting some effort into the fundraising. I do not fault the kids for this. A group of adults had to get together and say this is a good idea.

My grandson(11) used my wife old phone to setup an account. somehow the school sent text to all of her contacts on the phone.
We called the school and they said another site does this! They gave us the phone # and we told them to shut everything down immediately.

Football team here does salt for water softners, Great fundraiser as they deliver the salt. Some of the older folks buy a full years worth of salt and have the boys carry it to the softener.

I think I would call the school to see if its a scam. It sounds like it could be to me. First I have ever heard of anything like that.

We always support our local FFA by buying a years worth of laundry detergent and dishwasher tablets. I told them to contact me every year if they continue to sell.

now that is a great idea and a community service

Grandsons basketball team is having a fundraiser tomorrow. We donated this basket for the silent auction it has the school logo on the items in the basket.

If a kid comes to my door selling something to make some money for themselves, I'll usually buy.

If they come begging for money for their school, I nicely give them a little lecture about the thousands of dollars I pay in property taxes every year that go to their school.
I hate that these schools are intent on making good little Marxists.

The text to you for a school fundraiser is likely not a scam, I have 2 in athletics and they send those stupid (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) things out all the time, because the school or the coach tells them to. Literally looking for a donation "to reach their goal" you don't get anything in return. Schools are a joke anymore, between absolutely no enforcement of their rules, to not teaching (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman), to asking for money at every turn it is quite pathetic.

A number of the school are using an outside service to beg for donations for class trips, find raisers, etc.
I'm of the opinion it's a pain in you know where ... Donate once and they got their hand out asking for more... Not the kids but the service.

Used to be kids made personal contact, developed life and sales skills ... now they just hand over contact info on their phones and the service does the texting for them. Pretty impersonal in my opinion!

What a fraud of a fund raiser! Our school has banned it. 20% right of the top goes to the company which does nothing but set up a site that them takes 30 seconds. Then there is an automatic tip set at 1% and you can increase but if you do not set it to 0% they get a tip on top of the deal.
Now I am old school and have been coaching for 45 years. We still sell tickets at events, and sell concessions at softball games for our funds to run our 2-8 summer programs, and help with training equipment for high school. The kids are learning nothing, absolutely nothing from doing this. Yes I despise it! But I am a boomer what do I know!

My sons public school for their sport program is looking for donations of pennies. Goal is 1 million. Do the math. All local.

What do you expect when their parents, and those in charge, are likely of the Facebook mindset where everyone has a Go Fund Me for everything, sometimes for themselves. I had a cousin who wanted people to pay to reverse his vasectomy because “God told him he is to have another child”. His wife does them for herself too for various reasons.