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Matt Miller - School Spirit Vending

Matt Miller and Scott Hooper: School Spirit Vending

The School Zone Podcast team welcomes Matt Miller, President and Founder of School Spirit Vending to the School Zone! Matt Miller’s career began in the Military and then advertising space. Twelve years ago he started a simple vending business to help raise money for M.D. Anderson’s Children’s Cancer Center. In 2007-2008, several young kids came […]

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Ray Checketts – The Spirit Sleeve Company

Mr. Ray Checketts out of Logan, Utah of the Spirit Sleeve Company is our guest on this episode of the School Zone Podcast. The Spirit Sleeve is a division of Lin Manufacturing which is a huge sock manufacturing company. The Spirit Sleeve was created in 2009, and since then they have been sold in thousands […]

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Sarahi Gomez-McDonough: Score More Funds

The School Zone Podcast is honored to welcome Sarahi McDonough, Creative Director of Advertising and Media Relations of “Score More Funds” to the podcast. Score More Funds is a company solely based on fundraising and is focused highly on fundraising for schools, PTA’s, sports teams, and small businesses. We supply merchandise that we place your school […]

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Barbara Hodge: Deanan Gourmet Popcorn

Barbara Hodge is the president of Deanan Gourmet Popcorn. She is clearly energetic and excited about what she does and her enthusiasm is contagious. The School Zone Podcast is excited to have her on the show. We focus on the fundraising aspect of selling popcorn. We offer popcorn to the schools at an extremely reasonable […]

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John Howe: Administrator’s View of Fundraising

John Howe: Administrator’s View of Fundraising The reality is that funds do need to be raised because budgets are often times inadequate to deal with all of the needs that a school or school district has. There are a lot of different ways that vendors can reach out to a school: My personal preference of […]

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Kona Ice With Cheri Sinclair

Cheri Sinclair is a franchisee of Kona Ice in the Houston area. If you’re looking for a great way to fundraise for your schools Kona Ice is the way to go. 44 states and has over 700 trucks nationwide. It’s easy, fun and the kids love it and the teachers don’t mind it either, they […]

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Fan-Wear With Michael O’Leary

Fan-Wear is a fan wear/spirit wear company bringing new and innovative products to the fan wear industry, in particular to schools and colleges. Their focus is on providing customizable products such as sneakers and arm sleeves for colleges and school aged students and fans of all ages. Fan wear is the premium provider for fundraising […]

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Encouraging Reading While Raising Funds With Howard Gottlieb

Read-a-thon impacts kids in a positive way by encouraging them to read as well as helping schools get away from the traditional fundraisers. Read-a-thon keeps the focus in general like a “go fund me” but it is specific to reading. The ideal school is anyone with readers from two years old up to the eighth […]

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