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We understand the challenges created today with limited funds for our children's programs and the need to find creative and easy fundraisers to support these initiatives. Thats' why Picateers has worked hard to partner with communities to create safe and relevant fundraising solutions using photos.
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"Fun School Fundraising with Picateers", Photo Sharing Nuggets, 5/20/08
"Picateers helps you select a photographer, handles quality assurance, creates your portraits, ships the photos to your school, and returns 50% cash back on each order..."
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"Lifetouch: Little Photoshop of Horrors", Black Star Rising, 05/22/08
"Such Keystone Cops shenanigans are surely not the image Lifetouch wants to project - especially now. Because Lifetouch's business model faces upheaval in the form of a Web 2.0 upstart called Picateers..."
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"Picateers disrupts school portrait market with Web 2.0 tactics," Venture Beat, 05/21/08
"There are more than 300 schools, from preschools to high schools, participating in the program. One school in Fresno uses Picateers eight times during the school year, for everything from dances to graduation ceremonies..."
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"Have Fundraising Fatigue? Taking Photos to Help Raise Cash," Chicago Parent, 12/21/07
"As Susan Doherty and her neighbor Larry Jacobs found themselves talking about all the fundraisers they'd endured with their school-aged children, they started dreaming about something better. They wanted a fundraiser that would be useful to parents, would not send kids door-to-door and would still make money for schools. From that fundraiser fatigue, Picateers was born..."
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"People on the Move," San Jose Mercury News, 11/6/07. "Erik Stenson"
"To minimize future grimaces of school pictures past, Picateers Inc., an online school portrait company, offers the following tips for school picture day..."
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"Tips for picture day at school," Star Press ( Muncie ,
IN ), 9/25/07
IN ), 9/25/07
"To minimize future grimaces of school pictures past, Picateers Inc., an online school portrait company, offers the following tips for school picture day..."
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"Picture Day! School photos leave a lasting impression," Anderson Independent-Mail ( Anderson , SC ), 9/17/07
"... two things inevitably happen: 1) The photos turn out funky. 2) The parents buy an expensive photo package, anyway. Between now and October, millions of American
children will pose for their school pictures...To help parents get their youngsters ready for the dreaded Picture Day, here are a few tips from Picateers, an innovative
online school portrait company that gives back 50 percent of all school picture sales to the respective schools..."
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"Photo Fundraisers," Step-by-Step Fundraising, 4/2/07
"I discovered Picateers earlier this year when I met Larry Jacobs, CEO of Picateers at a fundraising conference. The
idea for Picateers all began with his children's preschool. They needed funds and he and his wife had always enjoyed
art and photography..."
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"5 Ways to Simplify School Fundraising And Raise More Funds in the Process!" Step-by-Step Fundraising Newsletter, March 2007
"Here are five ways that school groups can actually do fewer fundraisers and still get the funds needed to
fuel its programs... Encourage your school board or PTO to adopt programs that provide additional funding
through existing activities. For example, most schools have at least one school portrait day. When you use
Picateers your school will get 50% of the sale of portrait packages."
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"Picateers Funded For Fund Raising School Photo Site," Alarm Clock, 1/4/07
"...Picateers' web site combines photo sharing and photo products with school fund raising, whereby a 25%
of revenues go to the school..."
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March 26, 2008
December 5, 2007
October 10, 2007
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