There are many reasons to use Livingtree Give! Here are some of the top reasons:

The Livingtree Give platform is supported by and has been approved by your school district. Note: Please contact your district leadership directly if there are questions regarding this.
Livingtree Give allows you to create online fundraising campaigns and stores, electronically promote them, accept online payments, manage donor information, communicate with donors, and more. This helps eliminate or reduce the dependency on in-person fundraising, stores, etc for teachers, boosters, and PTAs.
The Livingtree Give platform was designed to help keep districts, schools, teachers, boosters, and PTAs within better fundraising compliance by providing financial oversight via a fundraiser approval process, direct deposit into district-managed financial accounts, real-time, district-wide (aggregated) transaction reporting, automated donor receipting, and more.

How does Livingtree Give work?

The following is a high-level overview of how Livingtree Give works for districts and users within districts:

Teachers, Boosters, and PTAs log into their Livingtree Give accounts to create a new campaign.
Teachers, Boosters, and PTAs easily create a campaign via a simple, step-by-step process of entering a fundraising goal, timeframe, description, photos/videos, and other project details.
Teachers, Boosters, and PTAs submit the campaign to "School and District Admins" for review and approval. At the same time, within this process, a "Bookkeeper" will apply an accounting code to the campaign, which helps the district's financial department account for donation payments, and further, reconciles and distribute funds.

At the appropriate stage, School Admins, District Admins, and Bookkeepers will receive email notifications to review campaigns submitted by fundraiser creators (bookkeepers receive notifications to apply accounting codes).
School and District Admins log into their Livingtree Give accounts and are instructed to review and approve OR reject the submitted campaign. Feedback is provided for approval or rejection. If a campaign is rejected, the system routes the campaign back to the Teacher, Booster, or PTA. He or she then receives an email notification of the rejection and based on the Admin's feedback, the campaign is revised. Once revised, the campaign is resubmitted back to the School or District Admin to review again until it is approved.

Fundraiser Promotion and Funds Collection (Teachers, Boosters, PTAs):

Teachers, Boosters, and PTAs promote the approved campaign via various promotions within their district or via built-in tools within their Livingtree Give accounts, including mass email, social media, printable flyers, etc.
When the campaign timeframe is completed, Teachers, Boosters, and PTAs work with their district's finance department on receiving the funds collected from the campaign.