TAGG FOR TEACHERS

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

Please use these helpful tools to make asking school families, plus your own friends and family to start TAGGing!

Intro to TAGG

What is TAGG?
It’s a way to raise funds without fundraising! TAGG is a local platform that gives parents, staff and other supporters an easy way to earn funds for your school year-round, through purchases they're already making — without spending an extra dime!

What is TAGG not?
TAGG is not meant to replace the large annual fundraisers, nor does it require the amount of planning and work! Instead, it is meant to add supplemental funds that are raised year-round! Because you’re not asking people to donate or buy something, they will be happy to know about this additional way to make a difference for your school.

How does it work?
Simply visit any of TAGG’s local participating businesses. Within 30 days, take/upload a photo of the receipt to your free TAGG.today account. That business will donate a % to the chosen school at NO extra cost to you! We know most families are already frequenting some of these businesses, so why not turn those purchases into donations for your school?!

Schools receive a monthly recap of funds raised, and can request a payout as often as monthly. See payout info.

All you have to do is spread the word.

This roadmap was made to take the guesswork out of how to get people to TAGG for your school! It’s full of ideas, promotional tools, and copy & paste content to let people know your school participates, and how easy it is for them to get started. Once you get the ball rolling, we also make it easy to thank your supporters, share your progress, and consistently remind people until TAGGing becomes a habit!

We can’t wait for you to see your TAGG funds grow!

Choose a TAGG Rep

Having someone lead your TAGG efforts is crucial for success, but don’t worry! We’ve made it so easy, your TAGG rep(s) will look like a pro. This could be school staff members, PTO/PTA members, or ideally, a combination of both! The primary objective of a TAGG rep is to follow the implementation of this communication roadmap to successfully educate and remind your supporters.

A good TAGG rep is someone who:

Is a TAGGer themself!
Understands how TAGG works and can explain it to others.
Would be willing to speak about TAGG or answer questions at parent attended events.
Believes in the potential of TAGG and is motivated to help the school reach its TAGG goals.
Someone who has access to the school newsletters & social media, or an open line of communication with the person who does.
Someone comfortable with using a computer.

The TAGG Rep(s) receive monthly email recaps sharing funds raised, current balance the option to request a payout. It is important to inform TAGG if your TAGG rep(s) change, because TAGG requires a valid email to be on file to remain active.

See full payout details.

Let us know who your rep(s) are!

First PTA/PTO Meeting: Build Your Base
+ Encourage Board to Choose TAGG Businesses

The individuals attending these meetings represent the most likely people to become TAGGers for your school. Typically, the first parent-teacher meeting of the year draws the highest attendance, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to encourage them to become your base of TAGGers. It only takes a handful to get the ball rolling, to create some momentum to share and build from! Furthermore, encouraging the board to choose TAGG businesses for purchases can really add up as well!

Meeting Talking Points & Handout

Introduction to TAGG: I would like to share with you a free and easy way you can start supporting the school year-round, called TAGG. If you're not familiar with it, TAGG is a local platform that turns your receipts from many local participating businesses into donations for our school. I would love this group’s support in building our base of TAGGers. If just 10 of us were to raise the average of $6 per month; that would amount to over $700 for our school in a year! If we could get 30% of our families TAGGing, that could mean $_____ for our school!
How it works: How it works is simple! You visit any of the participating businesses. After your purchase, all you have to do is log into your free TAGG.today account and add a photo of your paper or digital receipt within 30 days, and choose our school. Then, that business will make a donation back to the school on your behalf! It's that easy!
Create Accounts: Pass out a list of participating businesses, plus a handout with simple steps for creating your FREE TAGG.today account. (Walk through the steps of creating accounts together.)
Set a TAGG Goal: Having a school year funds raised goal enables you to showcase progress in promotional posts throughout the school year, and for supporters to see their contribution which helps keep momentum going, and also prompts a sense of urgency if falling behind.
Determine Use(s) of TAGG funds: Sharing potential uses for TAGG funds provides added incentive for parents and staff to contribute when items are tangible and meaningful, for example picnic tables, gym equipment, or teacher appreciation lunches.
Encourage Board to Use TAGG businesses when possible. This may include catered food, printing, bounce houses, etc. These types of purchases can often result in very large donations.
Set Dates for Launch Campaign: See "Launch" section for launch campaign details.

Launch Campaign

The primary goal of the TAGG Launch is to prompt people to create their free TAGG.today account (or access their existing one) to upload a launch/practice receipt. Instead of setting a funds raised target, the objective is to keep it extremely simple so more individuals are willing to take that essential first step toward becoming a “TAGGer.” The school will choose an incentive for getting a target number of people to create a free TAGG.today account (or access their existing one) to upload a TAGG launch (practice) receipt.

Launch Preperation

Set dates for your launch (3-4 weeks long) - We recommend 3-4 weeks after the school year begins so it doesn’t get lost in the chaos of back to school. You might want the first day of your launch campaign to be a day when flyers go home with students.
Determine a goal of # of people submitting the practice receipt (recommend 100) and school-wide incentive for reaching it. Make it as big and exciting as possible to get students excited. School-wide incentive ideas include: Pajama and movie day, extra recess + special treat, fun spirit week, pie the principal or teacher, etc.
Determine an incentive for the classroom with the best participation. Typically something food-related is best (example donuts, cookies, popcorn, pizza).
We encourage you to complete TAGG’s School Campaign Form to receive updates and additional support before, during and after your campaign.

Complete Launch Campaign Form

Launch Promotion

- Send printed flyer home (left) with students. Click here to access and customize your flyer.
- Send email to all staff and families. Click here for sample email content.
- Ask teachers to include the email in parent communication as well.
- Post on social media page(s) and in newsletter. Click here to access and customize your promotional image, and click here for sample content to go with it.
- Share an announcement on the speaker. Click here for a sample script.
- Continue to communicate progress throughout the campaign.

Click the flyer and image below to customize the areas with the orange 'TAGG' logo
for your launch campaign.

After the Launch Campaign
After your launch period (hopefully you reached your goal of 100 sign-ups!) you will want to coordinate the school-wide incentive (if applicable) and also the winning classroom incentive. It is also time to follow-up with everyone who created their TAGG.today account to let them know in more detail how to TAGG receipts, demonstrate how together these funds can really add up, and let them know what these impactful funds will be used for. This will ensure they understand it’s a year-round thing, not just when there is a “campaign.”

Follow-up by TAGG
TAGG will send a text message and email to everyone who submitted the practice receipt. This will direct them to a landing page on our website to encourge them to TAGG year-round, and explain everything they need to know to make TAGGing easy!

Follow-up by You

Send a thank you email to your TAGG supporters (emails will be provided by TAGG)
Post a thank you message in your newsletter and social media. Below is sample content and an image to use:
Thank You for TAGGing along and submitting the practice reciept during our TAGG launch!
Now, it's time to put your TAGG account to good use to help us raise mpactful funds! Remember, just by taking or uploading a photo of your paper or digital receipts within 30 days, hundreds of participating businesses will donate a % back to our school! Every receipt counts! Explore the participating businesses and let’s see how quickly our TAGG funds can add up!

(Link the 'participating businesses' to the appropriate business list:
Omaha area
Lincoln area
Siouxland

Newsletter Communication

Talk to the person who is in charge of your school’s newsletters to families and ask for a space dedicated for a TAGG communication. Newsletter communication alone may not be effective in gaining new TAGG supporters, however if done alongside a successful launch, campaigns, and social media, it serves as a great reminder.

Types of Communication:

General reminders
Progress towards annual school goal
Acknowledge your TAGG supporters
Campaign promotion & updates
Promote TAGG contests/prizes

Click Here to access the library of images and copy/paste content.

Types of social media posts

General reminders
Spotlight TAGG businesses
Progress towards annual school goal
Spotlight your TAGG supporters (ask people to send photos of them at TAGG places you post)
Acknowledge (list) and thank your TAGG supporters
Provide campaign updates
Have contests for top TAGGers (reward them with gift cards, front row seats to school events, etc.)

Click Here to access the library of images and copy/paste content.

Event Communication

School events in which parents/guardians attend are a wonderful opportunity to continuously introduce or remind people about TAGGing for your school. Choose your most well-attended events which could include:

Back to school / Meet your teachers events
Music programs
Teachers conferences
Curriculum / STEM nights
Book fairs
Carnivals or other seasonal events
Fun runs
Field days

Actions you can take:

Good - Have flyers for attendees (several options available in both half and full page size to download and print)
Better - Have a representative providing handouts face-to-face
Best - On top of handing out flyers, make announcements! See talking points below)
Above & Beyond - Provide an incentive for signing up (creating a new TAGG.today account) or showing your current TAGG.today account

We've included talking points for making an announcement at events, as well as a variety of printable flyers to be used at all of your events.

TALKING POINTS

We'd like to remind everyone about a free and easy way you can be supporting our school year-round through TAGG. If you're not familiar with it, TAGG is a local platform that turns your receipts into donations for our school.
How it works is simple! You visit any of TAGG's hundreds of participating businesses. A few around us that you probably already visit are, <Insert some TAGG Businesses near you>. After your purchase, all you have to do is log into your free TAGG account and add a photo of your receipt and choose our school. Then, that business will make a donation back to the school on your behalf! It's that easy!
Here’s a flyer which shows how easy it is to create your free TAGG account and view the entire participating business list.
You will be seeing reminders throughout the school year, and we would REALLY appreciate your support! It really can add up fast. The average raised per person is $6 per month, so if even 20 of you were to start, that could be $5,760 raised in one year!

Flyers

Help Us Raise Funds (Generic)
Download - Full Page
Download - Half Page (2 per page)

Parents Best Behavior
(Parent Teacher Conferences)
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Download - Half Page (2 per page)

Music to our Ears (Music Program)
Download - Full Page
Download - Half Page (2 per page)

Parents Get in on the Action (Field Day or Fun Run)
Download - Full Page
Download - Half Page (2 per page)

Not TAGGing yet? BRUH (Generic)
Download - Full Page
Download - Half Page (2 per page)

TAGGing for our School is BUSSIN' (Generic)
Download - Full Page
Download - Half Page (2 per page)

While You're On Your Phone (Generic)
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Download - Half Page (2 per page)

Seasonal Campaigns

Campaigns present a fantastic opportunity to gain fresh TAGG supporters and elevate your TAGG success during smallertimeframes. Setting a school-wide objective and involving students in a friendly classroom competition transforms TAGG into an enjoyable initiative worthy of celebration!

We recommend 2-3 seasonal TAGG campaigns during a school-year in addition to your launch campaign (where the goal is only to get TAGG.today accounts created and upload the practice receipt).

Seasonal Campaigns
TAGG offers 7 seasonal campaigns plus TAGG Madness (Omaha metro area), so we always have one ready when you need it. For each campaign, you determine a school wide $ raised goal and incentive for reaching it, along with a classroom incentive for turning in the most TAGGs.

Click here to customize the campaign flyers.
Click here to customize campaign images

Falling for Free Donations (September/October)

So Easy Its Scary (October)

Gobble Up TAGG Donations (November)

Gobble Up TAGG Donations (December)

Snow Easy (December-February)

Show Some Love (February)

Spring into Action (March-May)

Spring into Action (March-May)

TAGG for Teachers

TAGG for Teachers is a separate program created to help teachers offset their out-of-pocket expenses for their classrooms, while still raising funds for the school. All teachers have the option to get registered for free, and these TAGG donations are split between the teacher and their school (80% to the teacher, 20% to their school). When uploading a receipt to TAGG, instead of choosing to support the school, you choose TAGG for Teachers, then the school, then the teacher.

TAGG for Teachers has the potential to raise funds for the school from TAGGers who may not be TAGGing directly for the school, including teachers and their friends and family. Furthermore, school families may be more motivated to use TAGG when they know the funds are directly benefiting their children’s teacher/classroom. Despite the school receiving only 20%, if these contributions come from new supporters, its a win-win for the teacher and the school.

All you have to do is inform the teachers about the option to get registered (and you get 20% of what they earn).

Once they register, they will receive their own communication tools to get people TAGGing for them.

We’ve provided both a printable flyer as well as email content to share with teachers.

Email Content

Dear Teachers,
As you might know, our school participates in a local program called TAGG, to generate funds year-round from many local participating businesses willing to donate a percentage of their customer’s receipts back to the school.

We wanted to make sure you were aware of the TAGG for Teachers program, because any teacher can get registered for free to raise funds for your classroom!

The best part is TAGG donations from these participating businesses are split between the teacher (80%) and the school (20%). So when you register and use TAGG, and get your friends, family and school families to TAGG for you, it’s a win-win for you and our school!

You can find more info about TAGG for Teachers, and get registered here for free!

togetheragreatergood.com/https://togetheragreatergood.com/tagg-for-teachers/

Incoming Kindergarten Parent Meeting

The ideal time to introduce incoming families to TAGG is during the parent meeting for incoming kindergarteners! Kindergarten parents are highly motivated to get involved with the school, making them the most likely to actively participate. If you could get even 20 families TAGGing for your school, that could mean an extra $1,920 raised per year! We strongly recommend you or a representative from the staff take a few moments during the meeting to introduce TAGG. We’ve included suggested talking points as well as a printable handout to help get these parents TAGGing for your school.

Talking Points

We'd like to take a few minutes to share with you a free and easy way you can start supporting the school called TAGG. If you're not familiar with it, TAGG is a local platform that turns your receipts into donations for our school.
How it works is simple! You visit any of TAGG's hundreds of participating businesses. A few around us that you probably already visit are, <Insert some TAGG Businesses near you>. After your purchase, all you have to do is log into your free TAGG account and add a photo of your receipt and choose our school. Then, that business will make a donation back to the school on your behalf! It's that easy!
Here’s a flyer which shows how easy it is to create your free TAGG account and view the entire participating business list.
You will be seeing reminders throughout the school year, and we would REALLY appreciate your support! It really can add up fast. If just 20 of you were to raise the average $8 per month, that would mean $1,920 to our school in a year!

HANDOUT

We recommend copying this onto colored paper.
Kindergarteners love sticky hands! Order sticky hands and provide one with each "Hands Down" handout.
Order sticky hands on Amazon.
Download flyer.

Thank your TAGGers!

It is very important to thank and acknowledge your TAGGers, which will make them want to keep TAGGing for you!

Social media and Newsletters - You could thank your TAGGers generically, or consider including their names to encourage others to follow their lead! By showing how even a small group of people can make an impact, you can demonstrate how if more people got involved, how quickly the impact could grow.
Emails - When you request a TAGG payout, you will receive a report of all of the people to TAGGed for your school, including their emails. You can also request this list of people by emailing hello@togetheragreatergood.com.
Hand written cards - You may even want to consider annual thank you notes if you’re able to identify who their students are and send the cards home with them.

Click Here to access sample email content.

Click Here to access the library of images and copy/paste content.