Welcome to Click4Kids!
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As a parent, grandparent, or member of a local school community, we want to welcome you to Click4Kids.com.
We created this special page to help you better understand how Click4Kids.com can make it easy for you to purchase high-quality items and speed up to 50% of each sale to any U.S. school (locally or across the country) in the form of a fundraising check.
You now have the power to fundraise all year 'round, thanks to the combined power of the Internet and Click4Kids.com!
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What is Click4Kids.com?
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Our Web site was created to help people just like you safely purchase high-quality products via the World Wide Web. When you make a purchase, you may pick a specific school to receive 50% of your total purchase, which is mailed directly to schools in the form of a fundraising check each month. The funds are earmarked for individual fundraising efforts.
You may also track the funds raised for each school via our Stats + My Account page. Taken together, these capabilities offer schools and their supporters the first and only 100% financially transparent online fundraising solution.
You may not be aware of this, but fundraising is a $4 billion a year business. Currently, school fundraising is laborious, time consuming, inconvenient, sometimes dangerous, and not cost effective. Most schools are forced to use catalog-based sales tools, or host special auctions or sales that are labor-intensive, to ensure a quick turnaround on funds. Until now.
The Click4Kids.com Internet fundraising model is designed to operate more efficiently and safely than the traditional real-world models, and it delivers greater value to the schools and students than all other Internet fundraising operator contributions.
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Why is Click4Kids.com a better way to raise funds for schools?
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Although the direct sales industry formally adopted an ethical code in 1996 that forbids door to door sales, the basic school fundraising model involves handing a child a catalog and a sales sheet. Children are asked to solicit friends and family to buy products so that the school can benefit from its share of the profit.
Often the child is motivated by incentives such as CD players, walkie talkies, bicycles, and athletic equipment. Such motivations sometimes result in children ignoring the rule that only friends and family should be approached.
Increasingly, parents are being asked to shoulder their child's fundraising responsibilities. Parents are expected to sell to their colleagues, relatives, neighbors, and friends. Sometimes their sales efforts annoy fellow workers. Often their fellow workers show up the following week with their own fund drive materials, and expect a reciprocal sale. Some firms have even forbidden these activities in the workplace.
Finally, much of the merchandise offered in these programs is of very low value. The candy, cookies, and greeting cards are greatly overpriced, and often of little interest to the potential customer. While the direct sales industry portrays an image of warm-hearted neighbors happily buying attractive products from the boy or girl next door, the experience of many customers is one of annoyance or feeling pressured to buy.
Not surprisingly, schools boards and local governments are beginning to ban door to door sales by children. Some state legislatures have considered bills to ban such activities statewide.
Even with the push to ban door to door sales, thousands of schools across the country continue to engage in direct sales fundraising. Schools need money to make sure that every child can go on a school trip. They need money to buy computers. They sometimes need it for books, for sports equipment, for band instruments, for a new floor in the gymnasium. The list goes on and on. All are worthy causes.
In an ideal world, every school in America would have all the resources it needs to be an effective force in every child's social and educational growth. Every child would be able to participate in extra-curricular activities without himself or his parents being asked to undertake a fundraising activity. Every school would have enough up-to-date computers to satisfy the curiosity and learning needs of every student. Every school would be able to send every child to see a live professional dramatic performance. And every school would have proper and safe sports equipment.
The fact remains, schools need extra income. Fundraising fills this need. What schools need is a new model for raising funds day in and day out that is safe, effective, and fun.
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How do I create a Click4Kids.com account (or make changes to my existing account)?
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Just click here to sign up - or you can sign up during your first purchase.
You will need to give us a valid email address, a password of your choice, and a unique fundraiser name that we can use to track the cash you've raised for your choice of schools. You'll also be asked to select one favorite school to add to your account.
When you sign up, you may choose to show your fundraising statistics to other users of our site by selecting a public option. By selecting public, we'll show your fundraising name and your fundraising statistics on our
Stats + My Account page.
Should you change your mind and not wish to have your statistics displayed here, click the Stats + My Account tab at the top of any page, be sure you're logged in (enter your email address and password in the upper right-hand corner), then click the My Account button. You may then select Private, and your stats will be removed from public view during our next update cycle, which occurs daily.
Once you've signed up, you can purchase products and start earning cash for the schools of your choice.
Click the Fundraisers tab to explore our product catalog; press the I WANT SOME! buttons to add items to your shopping cart and then checkout.
To change your fundraiser name, your stats being shown/not shown, and more, click the Stats + My Account tab at the top of any page, be sure you're logged in (enter your email address and password in the upper right-hand corner), then click the My Account button. Make your changes, then be sure to save your new choices.
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What payment options do I have?
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You may pay using VISA and MasterCard. Other forms of payment will be made available over time.
Click4Kids.com does not store credit card or other financial information at its website. When you place an order, your transaction is completed via our secure server. Credit card information is simply used once to finalize payment for the products, and is transmitted via an encrypted connection (read: very secure link) to our processing company -- the largest and most secure in the world.
In a word, your payment is... secure. Period.
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What are my shipping options, and what's flat-rate shipping?
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We charge a single low, flat-rate shipping fee. This makes things easy -- add one, two, three, even four or more products to your order, and we'll only charge you our single flat-rate fee. The more you buy, the more money you save on shipping!
We deliver within all 50 U.S. states via U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail. At this time we cannot ship to APO or FPO addresses.
We process and ship orders Monday through Friday at our fulfillment center located in Northern California. Your order will arrive within 5 to 14 days. Most orders arrive in 4-5 days, excluding weekends and most holidays.
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Most of your products have Click4Kids labels; who makes these items? Are they good?
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We've worked hard over the years to find high-quality products that make it possible for schools to earn a high commission for each sale, while at the same time providing highly nutritional, safe, and effective products for families of all kinds.
Our vitamins and supplements were formulated by doctors and scientists working for the Allergy Research Group. Established in 1979, ARG is an innovative leader in research and the formulation of nutritional supplements. The firm is recognized worldwide for the quality, purity and efficacy of its targeted nutritional supplement line consisting of more than 200 products. More than 4,000 physicians and health care practitioners worldwide currently purchase Allergy Research Group's products and recommend these supplements to their patients.
Allergy Research Group's research and development is led by Stephen Levine, Ph.D., who is recognized internationally for his mission of creating state-of-the-art supplements, especially designed for allergic individuals. Dr. Levine is also known worldwide as an author of the book, "Antioxidant Adaptation: Its Role in Free Radical Pathology," which is considered a leading resource on this subject. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Levine has collaborated with the medical community and states, "It has been my greatest pleasure working with progressive physicians to develop nutraceutical products which reduce suffering and improve the health of their patients."
We're continuing to keep an eye out for companies offering superior products that we can sell on a private-label basis. Send an email to info@click4kids.com to find out more or get in touch with our buyers.
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How can my kids participate in a Click4Kids fundraiser campaign?
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Although we created Click4Kids to minimize the time and energy your kids spend fundraising for worthy causes at your school, we encourage students to participate in two ways.
First, click the Spread the Word tab above. We suggest that you and your kids print a set of our black and white handout posters. We offer two versions -- one for elementary locations, and a second for middle/high schools -- which clearly explain the program, how to get started, and provide spaces to fill in the name of your school, fundraising purposes to make it easy to assign raised funds to individual efforts, and more.
These posters can be filled out and handed to grandparents, aunts, uncles, community members, and others, or posted on bulletin boards, local businesses, and much more. The sky is the limit.
Next, you’ll notice that the Spread the Word page also offers the ability to send email invitations. Just fill in the form, and email a selection of parents, grandparents, relatives, businesses, etc. with information about your fundraisers and how click4kids.com can help.
Your school name will be provided to make it easy for the recipients to turn around, make a purchase, and speed the funds to your school.
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I really need to talk to someone at Click4Kids.com. May I call you?
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Our apologies. We're a small company, busy looking for new products, shipping your order(s), and writing lesson plans and other materials to help schools get the most out of our fundraising model. As demand for Click4Kids.com grows, we're planning to offer phone staff support. For now, however, we're focused on keeping costs down and percentages high.
You may send an email to help@click4kids.com and we'll get back to you within two business days. In most cases, we turn around emails the same day we receive them.
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I have feedback or a suggestion. Can I fill out your survey?
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We love to hear from our users! Fill out our survey today. We read every single one!
You may also send an email to help@click4kids.com and we'll get back to you within two business days. In most cases, we turn around emails the same day we receive them.
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I'd like to link from my family Web site to yours. Do you have any Click4Kids banners or graphics?
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We sure do! To reuse these images, right-click on them and select "Save Image/Picture As..." from the menu. Save the image to your desktop. You may then upload it to your page(s) and link it to www.click4kids.com.
  
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