I agreed to serve on the PTA of the Japanese elementary school my children attend, but on one condition: that I didn't have to do any fundraising.
A strange demand? Perhaps, but after three years of bake sales, book sales and candy sales at our school in America, I was fed up with fundraising.
PTA dues at our U.S. school were just $5 per parent, but only a third of the families paid. So PTA volunteers spent most of their time organizing other ways to raise money.