Case Study: Portland Public Schools Foundation streamlines school auction fundraising with SchoolAuction.net

Portland Public Schools Foundation - Customer Case Study

The Portland Public Schools Foundation (PPSF) provides strategic support to 44 local school foundations to streamline their fundraising efforts. Their challenge was to coordinate these numerous volunteer-run auctions efficiently, reduce costs for individual schools, and gain access to consolidated, quality data to measure development goals. They partnered with the vendor SchoolAuction.net, utilizing its auction software services under a group license agreement.

The solution from SchoolAuction.net centralized key functions, including credit card processing through a master merchant account and providing real-time financial reporting. This saved schools significant expenses, such as eliminating a $200 per-event credit card machine rental fee. The software streamlined event transactions, created a database for future planning, and freed up significant administrative capacity for PPSF. The measurable result was that parents raised over $3 million, with all net funds directly benefiting students.

Portland Public Schools Foundation