Hughey Hustle

Hughes PTA is thrilled to announce our 3rd Annual Hughey Hustle fundraiser! This high-energy event gets our students active, builds school spirit, and brings our entire community together. Best of all, 100% of all donations go straight to the Hughes PTA to support our campus directly—there are no middleman companies!

Participant Registration:

If you have not registered your student(s), please go here : https://jhes.futurefund.com/go/73619-the-hughey-hustle

You do not need to register your student more than once. You should receive an email with a link to your student(s) dashboard. Donations are not required to complete registration!

Fundraiser Details:

  • Donation Dates: Sept. 18th – Oct. 7th
  • Finish Line Glow Bash: Oct. 8th during your child’s Specials, PreK will be at 8:00am
  • Finish Line Glow Bash will be set up in the Gym.

Why This Fundraiser Matters:With your help, our PTA can make a tangible impact on every student’s experience. This year’s fundraiser has a few powerful goals:

  • House Shirt: As we transition from cabins to houses, this will help every student on our team have a house shirt. One Team. One Goal.
  • Field Trip : Assist the school with offsetting the costs for every grade’s exciting field trips. 
  • Outdoor Basketball Court Improvement : The PTA is working to transform our campus blacktop into an all-inclusive activity hub with freshly resurfaced basketball courts and colorful, interactive ground games. This upgrade will give all our students a safer, more dynamic place to play, move, and connect during recess.
  • Gym Mascot Updates : We are excited to bring our gym’s centerpiece up to date by replacing the original 20-year-old mascot emblem with our refreshed, modern mascot design. This update will energize our gym space and proudly showcase our current school spirit for all students, families, and community events.

Your support of the Hughey Hustle Fundraiser is essential to making these visions a reality.  Money raised will also go towards expenses for our community events to keep them free to all to attend.

How It Works: 

  • Make Donations: Envelopes will go home for registration starting Friday, September 18th. YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR CHILD TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR DONATIONS IN THEIR CLASS/GRADE. Starting Friday, September 18th through Wednesday, October 7th, students will have the opportunity to collect donations from family, friends, and neighbors. Every child will be given an envelope to take home each day to collect any cash or check donations.  Donations can also be made online with an easy link to share (provided after registration is complete) with friends and family through October 7th. The LAST day for cash donations will be Monday, October 5th.  
  • Race to the Finish Line: Students will be working towards classroom and grade incentives. As goals are reached, classroom and grade parties and incentives will be occurring throughout the fundraiser! As One Team – every student will have a part in working towards the Principal Challenge, and every student will be participating in classroom and grade rewards that are earned. In addition to classroom and grade incentives, see the graphic below for some individual incentives!
  • Hughey Hustle Event:  On Thursday, October 8th, during your child’s Specials’ time, PTA will host the Hughey Hustle: Finish Line Glow Bash for every student!  This event is a fun and exciting way to celebrate the money raised during our fundraiser.  This glow themed event will include various fun stations! The event will be inside the gym – please feel free to have your student in tennis shoes like they have for PE – and dress in fun neon colors. Family is invited to attend and celebrate with us!

Principal Roub is excited to see if our Hawks can raise over $35,000. If we can, he’ll be turned into a Human Sundae during a school wide assembly!

Hughey Hustle FAQ – Registration :

My student’s Hughey Hustle Envelope came home today, what do I need to do?

First, please make sure that your student’s name, teacher, and grade appear on the outside of the envelope.

Second, take out the brightly colored sheet and complete the quick registration process!! The 1st class to reach 100% registration will receive [insert something].

Finally, work with your student to ask friends, family, and neighbors to make a contribution to our school! Every small amount helps. There is never a donation too small.  

Can I register multiple students? 

Absolutely! You’ll follow the QR code or the link. It should take you to a sign up page where you’ll enter information for 1 student (first name, last name) and then select the appropriate teacher and grade from the drop down menus. 

To add a 2nd (or any additional participants), click on the Add another participant button, and follow the process above. If you add a participant in error – you can use the trash icon to remove the additional participant. Once you’ve double checked the information, please click next.

Now that I’ve registered, what do I need to do next?

First – great job! Just by getting your student(s) registered, they will be helping their class work towards a 100% registration reward for their class!

Second – click on the link to Donate. It will take you to a new page, and there you can select how much to donate per child. While we recommend an equal between siblings, it is not required. The selection you make is notated by a darker color box. 

Click Next – You will now be on the donation check out page. It will ask for name, email, payment method information, and address. It will also let you know of the platform fee that is collected on all digital donations. If you do not want to pay that fee, you are welcome to send in cash or check in your student’s physical envelope that has gone home for this fundraiser. We can take care of your donation from there. Please note – we’re so excited to celebrate every single individual contribution – if you or anyone you know makes a digital contribution – we will be making a thank you reel for our social media!

I don’t see a total amount on the check out page. 

Currently, our platform does not show a total amount. You will need to just add the amount(s) from the donation page plus the platform fee to know the total amount that will be charged to your payment method. 

What if I don’t want to donate one of the suggested amounts? 

Please select Other, enter in the amount you wish to donate, click Okay, and then proceed with the billing information to complete your donation.  

What if I mess up my donation and only donate $1 instead of $10? 

While we can do a refund for the $1, and then have you complete a second donation of $10. We would recommend doing a second online donation of $9 to equal the $10 that was originally intended. You may also choose to send in cash or check. 

How do I share this with friends and family? 

It’s so easy! From your dashboard, you can invite friends and family to donate through an email, social media, and even text message.

What if my child collects physical donations (cash, coins, checks)? 

Fantastic! Please make sure you have gone online and registered your student(s). Next, have your student place any and all physical donations (cash, coins, checks) into their Hughey Hustle Envelope that was sent home and bring it back to school. We’ll have a PTA Celebration Table at the Front Doors for students to drop off their envelope! And then they’ll get a new one for any additional or future cash donations. If you do not plan to do cash/check donations – you do not have to send the envelope back daily like the past 2 years. All that we ask is that your child’s name, grade, and teacher are correct on the envelope prior to it being handed over. Plus your child will get to ring a cow bell to celebration their individual contribution to our fundraiser. You should be able to see a record of the cash recorded under your child’s account dashboard by the end of the day it was brought in (unless the student forgot it in their backpack!).

What exactly am I supposed to do with this envelope that got sent home with my student? 

Step One : Ask your student about their classroom goals!  

Step Two : Complete your student(s) registration. 

Step Three : If you have cash or check donations – send this envelope back with your student to the front lobby during morning drop off (or teachers can send them first thing in the morning if it is placed in their red folder). If you do send physical donations, you don’t have to do anything with the envelope (but keep it until the fundraiser is over). Our PTA will be set up daily from 9/21 – 10/5 to collect cash from students (or parents if you want to come say high and celebrate with us)!

Step Four : Encourage your student to set a fundraising personal goal – ask friends, family, neighbors to support our school and our community. 

Do I have to write two (or more) checks to make sure each of my students gets an equal amount of the donation I want to give? 

No! You can elect to write two checks, and place one in each student’s envelope, or you can write one check. If you choose to only write one check, please add a note to split the donation with (participant name, teacher, grade). This is to assist our PTA board in making sure each student receives the correct amount of Hughey Bucks as well as making sure the student/teacher/class has a record of the donation for their incentives.  If we make a mistake – we can correct this on the back end – just reach out!

Email Donation Invitation

Please note, we have already created a sample message that can be sent out. You are welcome to customize that message or add to that message. 

The email donation invitation will appear to only link to a specific student’s dashboard. If you registered multiple participants, as soon as they click on the link, the recipient will have the option to make donations to any/all of the participants that you registered at one time. 

Why are we doing this fundraiser? What should I have my student tell their friends and family? 

We believe that as a community, we can make a positive impact on our school, our teachers, and our students. Every dollar raised during this fundraiser goes back to students and classrooms and community events. We raised over $31,000 last year, and we believe as a Hawk community we can do it again. Plus – if we reach our goal of $35,000, Principal Roub will be turned into a human Sundae for all of our students to see and enjoy.

What is the purpose of the leader board?

We have a variety of incentives for teachers, classes, grades, and as a school. The leaderboard helps give you a visual of what your class(es) and grade(s) are raising for our Hawk community. 

Ask your student about their specific classroom goal and incentive!! 

How do I see a total of how much we’ve raised/how close we are to reaching our Hughes Hawk Community goal? 

We’ll be updating the dashboard page every few days to provide a school total!  Plus – come check out our new outdoor thermometer where we’ll be updating how close we are as a school wide team throughout the fundraiser!

I have additional questions that were not covered here, who do I contact? 

Please send an email to JLyndalHughesPTA@gmail.com and someone will get back to you as quickly as possible!

Can I come watch the event? 

Absolutely! We would love our Hawk community to come out and join us. If you’re able to come early or stay after your child has their event, we would love it for you to volunteer and help cheer on every grade as they make their way through fun mini competition stations. If you’re interested in learning more – reach out to a PTA board member.

Do I need to bring donations to the event? 

No, the Finish Line Glow Bash is to celebrate how hard all of our students have been working on our Hughey Hustle fundraiser. We want to celebrate all the hard work that our students put in to raising funds and advocating for our school.