Fundraising Fundamentals
This is the only approved platform for online THON fundraising.
What is DonorDrive?
These reports, completed through THINK, are due on the first of each month following the opening of the Fall Fundraising Window.
What are Monthly Organization Reports (MORs)?
Organizations must register alternative fundraisers on THINK at least this long before the event.
What is one week?
A custom merchandise submission for an alternative fundraiser can contain no more than this many designs.
What are 15 designs?
An organization can designate this many people to its Pass List for each dancer allocated.
What is 8 people?
Alternative fundraisers using a percentage of sales must donate at least this percentage of sales to THON, excluding restaurant fundraisers.
What is 15%?
Missing all five MORs results in this percentage deduction from an organization's THON 2027 fundraising total.
What is 5%?
Alternative fundraisers cannot last longer than this amount of time.
What is two weeks?
These three registered marks must be used properly on applicable THON advertising materials.
What are THON™, For The Kids®, and FTK®?
Dancer Couples selected in the lottery can designate this many people to their Pass List.
What is 16 people?
This type of fundraising, defined as creating quotas, penalties, or social pressure to make someone fundraise, is strictly prohibited.
What is forced fundraising?
If a THON Chair dances during THON Weekend, the organization must register this person on THINK before THON Weekend.
Who is the Acting THON Chair?
This type of fundraiser is prohibited in Centre County.
What is canvassing?
Organizations cannot use this THON-related word, phrase, or trademark in their official THON-affiliated name.
What are “THON,” “FTK,” “For The Kids,” or “For The Cure”?
This is the deadline for organizations to submit their THON Weekend Pass Lists.
What is 11:59 PM on February 8, 2027?
After an alternative fundraiser ends, organizations have this many business days to turn in all funds raised to the THON Office.
What is 2 business days?
If a THON Chair misses a Workshop or Liaison Meeting and it isn't properly attended, the organization can lose this many hours of floor passes during THON Weekend.
What is 4 hours?
Food sales cannot occur on any of these locations.
What are Penn State campuses?
This is the latest date a Merchandise Approval Request can be submitted for THON 2027; requests submitted after this date will be denied.
What is January 31, 2027?
Organizations can have up to this many representatives enter the BJC during Entrance Plan.
What is 100?
What money-transfer apps are approved for THON-related donations?
What are none.
Before organizations can access their Pass Lists, all organization THON Chairs must complete and pass this.
What is the Pass Quiz?
Organizations may not hold these two types of events as fundraisers because of copyrighted-content concerns.
What are movie nights and watch parties?
If merchandise is sold for more than the cost of producing it, what does that merchandise become classified as?
An Alternative Fundraiser.
These are the number of representatives an IDC can have enter the BJC during Entrance Plan.
What is 10?