Maryland School Raises Money With Rokkitwear

Bethesda, Md. (March 5, 2015) – The de Chantal Dukes have found a new way to help family and fans purchase school spirit custom apparel while raising money for the school. After a few months partnering with Rokkitwear, an athletic apparel company, St. Jane de Chantal Catholic School has raised more than $1,600.

Typically, school fundraisers have included raffles, events and a lot of upfront work and expense. In particular, managing the inventory required to sell apparel and other branded items was always difficult and costly. But now, Rokkitwear guarantees a minimum of 15% of all spirit wear revenue to the school.

St. Jane de Chantal decided to switch gears and work with Rokkitwear after learning about them online. Rokkitwear is a unique e-commerce platform that takes the burden and expense of inventory and sales off the schools with a program that is offered at no cost to the school.

Now, Rokkitwear handles everything. Customers can choose from thousands of designs using the official De Chantal logos. And Rokkitwear accepts single piece, on-demand orders. Local fans just need to visit www.dechantal.org and follow the link to the Spirit Wear store https://www.rokkitwear.com/school/23621-st-jane-de-chantal to order everything from sweatshirts and t-shirts to outerwear and performance wear. Orders are filled and shipped within five days.

So far, the response has been great and the school looks forward to continued success.

Susan Myers, President of the Home and School Association, said, “People love the designs, the number of items to choose from and the great color options.”

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Duke is the official mascot of the De Chantal school.

About Rokkitwear

Rokkitwear is an official provider of high school apparel licensed by the Licensing Resource Group and National Federation of State High School Associations. As the first officially licensed online spirit wear provider recognized by the NFHS and LRG, Rokkitwear guarantees a royalty payment to each school on every sale of such school’s spirit wear. Through rokkitwear.com, the company’s state-of-the-art e-commerce storefront, Rokkitwear is helping schools, booster clubs, organizations and sports teams raise additional needed funds while managing and administering school spirit wear programs.

About St. Jane de Chantal Catholic School

St. Jane de Chantal is a co-educational, K-8 Catholic school in suburban Maryland.  Their mission is to spread the message of Jesus by providing high quality, well-rounded education within a Christ-centered community.  St. Jane de Chantal provides a comprehensive, developmental, and integrated curriculum imbued with Gospel teachings, which stimulate academic excellence while developing traditional Catholic values.

Student Council Bonding Ideas | High School Spirit Items

If you are a school administrator or a student council representative and want to help your group bond and showcase school spirit, then keep reading. The student council members are the leaders of school pride in a way. They are the voice of the students and can easily set a tone for the school year. Wearing high school spirit items like t-shirts and hats and promoting school pride in other ways is a big part of being a student council member. Here we discuss a few ways to keep the pride going in the group and for the rest of the school.

Retreats: Take the student council members off-site for some bonding activities. Play games and host workshops where members have to solve a puzzle, go on a scavenger hunt or solve a mock student council problem. Anything that promotes team building and has the students working together to reach a common goal.

Volunteering: Have the student council students volunteer as a group. They could visit an animal shelter, read to the elderly, or do clean up around the school or community. Giving back together is a great bonding experience.

Fundraising: What better way to spread school spirit than raising money for your school selling high school apparel? T-shirts, hoodies, sweatpants and more are just some of the items that can be customized with your school’s name, mascot or insignia. Programs like Rokkitwear offer free online stores where you customize your high school spirit items and then sell them, with part of the proceeds going right back to the school.

The student council can help bring the school together in many ways. Here a bunch of events the student council can host to come together but also unite the students:

  • Freshman orientation
  • Welcome back dance
  • Ice cream social
  • Blood drives
  • Decorating the halls
  • Homecoming and prom
  • Pep rallies
  • Canned food drive
  • Spirit week
  • Graduation
  • More!

Having a student council that demonstrates unity and school spirit will go a long way in getting the rest of the student body excited and involved. Once the votes are in and the student council members are elected, that is just the beginning. It is important to keep delivering results, bringing on the school spirit and representing classmates.

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