Customer story · Sacajawea PTG
Their past results weren’t their limit.
For Sacajawea PTG, $8,000 was a successful fundraising year. A $22,000 request for new drums would show how much more the group could help its community accomplish.
A familiar routine
A good year looked like the year before.
Sacajawea PTG had served its middle school for decades, running familiar programs and the same dependable fall fundraiser. Around $8,000 counted as a good year. That was the level of support the group had come to expect it could provide.
Its first fall fundraiser with Big Nest earned $11,452, up from $8,119 the year before. That 41% increase was an early sign that past results did not have to set the ceiling.
Teachers began to see the PTG as a partner for larger needs. The band teacher had one that would put that growing confidence to the test.
A bigger ask
The drums would cost $22,000.
The school’s drumline equipment was 50 years old and needed replacing. At $22,000, the request was nearly three times what the PTG had once considered a good fundraising year. The band teacher estimated it would take the district three years to fund it.
The PTG took it on. Through a Big Nest fundraiser, the group explained why the drums mattered and gave families a way to contribute toward the project.
$7,000
raised for the drumline project
6 months
instead of a three-year wait
The community raised $7,000 through the PTG’s fundraiser. That response caught the principal’s attention, and she offered to match it with another $7,000. The district now needed to find $8,000 instead of $22,000, making it possible to move the project forward.
In time for the students who needed them
New drums. In the spring.
Within months, students were playing their new drums in the Junior Lilac Parade. The PTG’s contribution had brought a project far beyond its usual fundraising within reach that same school year.
More is possible
The PTG knew it could do more.
Sacajawea had a new example of what its community could accomplish together. Big Nest helped the PTG put a larger need in front of families and collect their support. The group could look beyond last year’s total when deciding what to take on next.
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