Running a PTA takes work—but the right tools make it easier. This guide for volunteers rounds up the best free templates, digital tools, and official PTA resources to help you succeed.

FutureFund is designed by and for school groups to solve the unique fundraising challenges you face.
There are lots of platforms designed for fundraising, but FutureFund is the only one built by parents and educators to solve the unique challenges school groups face. Here’s how FutureFund compares to Givebacks when you look at the costs, benefits, and features:
Our purpose-built features help school groups fundraise more efficiently while engaging parents and giving time back to volunteers.
Run donation drives, grow your membership, host Pledge-A-Thons and more with campaign templates that make setting up fundraisers faster than ever.
Use automated responses to resolve disputed payments quickly and avoid losing money.
Generate campaign summaries and financial reports in just a few clicks to keep your school group compliant with federal and state regulations.
Send messages to filtered audiences and create personas for targeted, personalized communication that inspires parents and volunteers to act.
Sell school spirit wear, event tickets, and more in a custom online store for your school group.
School groups use FutureFund for free! Our costs are covered by small platform fees charged as a percentage of each donation.
Schools that sign up get full access to all of FutureFund’s features—it’s always free and it always will be.
FutureFund is used by over 1,000+ organizations, including:
Tassajara Elementary
“FutureFund provides excellent onboarding and support for our organization. The FutureFund Team is based in America and easy to get on a call with to help us troubleshoot problems. Most issues are resolved within 24 hours!”
Bollinger Elementary & Iron Horse Middle School
“The biggest thing we love about FutureFund is how easy it is to keep our group organized! I love the parents directory and volunteer tools because its so easy to get everyone organized and informed!”
Unlike other peer-to-peer fundraising platforms, FutureFund was created specifically for PTAs and school groups. Our features are designed to solve the problems parents and educators face every day.
Instead of charging school groups, we charge a small fee to donors as a portion of each payment they make through the platform. This spreads out the cost of our platform to make things easy for community members while allowing school groups to fundraise for free.
With other fundraising platforms, you need to respond to each dispute manually or risk having it settled in favor of the party who filed against you. FutureFund allows you to respond automatically when transactions are disputed, potentially saving you thousands of dollars per year in revenue that would otherwise be lost.
All kinds! We have no limits on the kinds of messages you can send through our built-in messaging system. Everything is customizable—including your audience filters and the sender profiles you use to communicate with them.
We built FutureFund specifically to support K-12 PTAs and school groups. Our team are PTA members ourselves, and we understand the relationships between parents, teachers, and students—so we created tools that solve the unique challenges these groups face when it comes to effectively organizing and fundraising.
Instead of using pre-made templates, FutureFund gives you a variety of easily customizable campaign types to provide specific support for school group fundraisers of all kinds. These include:
Schools that sign up get full access to all of FutureFund’s features—it’s always free and it always will be.