For PTOs, PTAs, and boosters

This could be your last fundraiser.

Some of your parents buy technology at work. They share a project their company has already budgeted, and Kithix introduces suppliers. If the company buys, your organization receives a donation every quarter after invoices are paid.

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How Kithix works. Who does what, and where the donation comes from, in under 90 seconds.

Where the money comes from

Schools pay nothing. Companies pay nothing extra.

The company pays the supplier its normal price, the supplier side pays Kithix for the introduction, and Kithix sends your organization its share.

How the money works, in full

The company
Buys the project it already planned, direct from the supplier.
$10,000 a month, paid to the supplier at its normal price
The supplier
Delivers the service and bills the company, the same as any other customer.
Introduction fee, paid by the supplier side
Kithix
Sends the organization its share once invoices are paid. Never more than it received for that referral.
5% of qualifying spend: $500 a month
The organization
$1,500every quarter

How it works

Four steps. Your organization does the first one.

Invite
The PTO or booster invites parents and neighbors who make technology decisions at work.
Share
The IT buyer shares a project their company has already planned and budgeted.
Connect
Kithix introduces suppliers that fit. The buyer decides whether to talk to any of them.
If the company buys
Receive
The organization receives a donation every quarter after invoices are paid.

Your part

Apply. If your organization is accepted, an officer signs the written agreement and privately tells Kithix where to send the donation. Then send the kit’s ready-made messages to the parents and neighbors who buy technology at work. You do not sell anything, staff a table, or invoice anyone.

Each step in detail

Before and after

Another cookie dough sale, or one referral.

A sale takes weeks of volunteer time and ends when the last box is picked up. A referral starts with one message to the right parents.

What you run now

A catalog or product sale

Volunteer time: Weeks per sale; Order forms, counting money, sorting day, pickup.
Asked to buy: Your families; And their neighbors, the same as last time.
What repeats: The work; Each sale pays once.
Next fall: Back to zero; You plan the next one.

With Kithix

One referred company that buys

Volunteer time: A few invitations; Apply once, then send the kit’s messages.
Asked to buy: Nobody; A company buys what it had already budgeted.
What repeats: The donation; Every quarter after invoices are paid.
Next fall: Nothing to rerun; It continues while the referral stays active.

What it can add up to

Start with one referral. Each one adds to the ones before it.

Donations to the organization in a yearReferrals added at this stepEarlier referrals, still active, one tone per step

One referral
A phone and video conferencing system: a company spending $10,000 a month.
$6,000a year
Two referrals
Internet access for one office adds $900 a year.
$6,900a year
Three referrals
An artificial intelligence (AI) rollout adds $9,000 a year.
$15,900a year
Four referrals
Disaster recovery adds $15,000 a year.
$30,900a year
Five referrals
A move to the cloud adds $30,000 a year.
$60,900a year

Assumes every referral shown buys, is billed for the full year, and none cancel. Real results will be smaller and slower.

Each referral here is a company spending $1,500 to $50,000 a month, and the organization’s share is 5% of each. A donation stops when its referral is no longer active.

Who is behind this

Kithix is new. Here is what you can check.

No school has results to show yet. You can check who started Kithix, which suppliers are in the directory, and the arithmetic above.

Amber Nash, founder of Kithix, smiling in a black Kithix T-shirt — Amber Nash, founder

Started by Amber Nash, a PTO parent and volunteer.

Kithix LLC, United States.

The groups she was in were always fundraising, and she wanted that time back for the students.

Suppliers in the directory

See the directory

What your board will ask

Three questions come up first.

When would the first donation arrive?
Months, not weeks. A company has to buy, be invoiced, and pay first. Leave it out of the budget until the first one lands.
What if none of our parents work in IT?
Then this will not replace your bake sale. It does not take a CIO: a parent who buys internet, phones, cloud, security, or AI for an employer counts. Small projects count too: internet access at $1,500 a month models at $225 a quarter, about $900 a year.
Is this a multi-level scheme?
No. Nobody pays to join and there are no levels. The parents you invite are never asked to sell anything or to invite anyone else. If one of their companies buys, the organization receives a donation.

What the money is for

What a quarterly donation could cover.

You joined the board for the kids, not to count cookie dough tubs in the gym.

One quarter, one referral

The first donation, item by item

Example

A charter bus for the field trip: $900; The students who would otherwise stay home ride too.
Two instrument repairs: $350; Or one replacement for what is past repairing.
Books for one classroom: $250; Without another sale to pay for them.
One quarter’s donation: $1,500; From one referred company that bought.

Illustrative line items, not Kithix results. The total is one quarter from the one-referral example above.

A marching band in uniform walking across a field at sunset carrying their instruments, a parent alongside with a cooler

For your next board meeting

Not ready to apply? Take it to your board first.

These three documents cover why this beats another sale, what your organization would actually do, how to start, and what one referral could send you each quarter.

See the whole Fast Start Kit