Schools & Money | Author: Jennifer Hartmeyer

How to Escalate Issues with Your School's Bank Account

Published on 2025-5-21

Having trouble with your school's bank account? This guide walks you through clear escalation steps, from self-service to regulatory agencies, so you can fix the issue or move on.

Financial Account Monitoring

Published on 2023-9-22

Monitor your school's financial accounts by configuring account alerts. This will ensure that you are notified promptly of transfers, fees, low balances, and suspicious activity that may occur. If there is ever a problem, such as unauthorized transactions, it is important to identify the issue quickly and contact the bank right away in order to minimize the impact.

Ideas for Small Rewards

Published on 2023-8-31

Keeping students motivated is challenging. Your organization may find it useful to use modest rewards for achievements. This is a comprehensive list of ideas for small rewards to incentivize and reward. Some of these items are well suited to younger students and classroom prize bowls while others are a better fit for older students, clubs, and sports teams.

Dangers associated with paper checks

Published on 2023-7-19

Paper checks are a convenient way of paying for goods and services, however they are inherently insecure. Each check contains all the information necessary to steal money from the associated account, not just once, but any number of times as long as the account remains open. This means that anyone that has access to your school's checks could make a copy of the account details which they could use, sell, or retain indefinitely.