What’s Under Your Bed? A Fundraising Fiasco

Student clubs and sports often struggle to raise funds. With limited revenue streams, coaches or advisors and parents routinely find themselves managing candy sales, car washes, raffles, and ticketed fundraisers to support programming. In this case of a swim team fundraiser, school leaders see the r...

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Published inThe Journal of cases in educational leadership Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 157 - 166
Main Authors Carver, Cynthia L., Klein, C. Suzanne, Gistinger, Maria A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2015
Subjects
Aquatic Sports
Case Method (Teaching Technique)
Deception
Fund Raising
High School Students
High Schools
Money Management
United States (Midwest)
Urban Schools
extracurricular fundraising
fraud
financial mismanagement
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Summary:Student clubs and sports often struggle to raise funds. With limited revenue streams, coaches or advisors and parents routinely find themselves managing candy sales, car washes, raffles, and ticketed fundraisers to support programming. In this case of a swim team fundraiser, school leaders see the range of problems that can occur when a routine practice—extracurricular fundraising—goes awry. With Cressey’s fraud triangle as a backdrop, readers learn to deter and prevent financial mismanagement and fraud through the development of internal operating procedures and oversight.
ISSN:1555-4589
1555-4589
DOI:10.1177/1555458915584678