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My World Issues class is holding a fundraiser for Burma/Myanmar (a cyclone hit, ~50,000 dead, but conditions are so horrible that number could reach 100,000). It's for emergency relief so we'll hopefully be pulling this off on Monday and we'll be donating the money to Red Cross but we need more ideas! We're thinking of doing a huge bake sale and a silent auction... and we'll auction off stuff like... a tub of Ben and Jerry's icecream, free-dress-day passes (we wear uniforms), student car wash (for the teachers), leave-campus-for-lunch passes, and we're going to try and get some vouchers/products from companies - we have a good chance of getting a mobile phone. And maybe some fast food vouchers from where I work. Any other ideas on stuff (especially services) we could sell at the silent auction (it's only for highschool students and teachers btw)? or just other fund raising ideas? A pair of our teachers are going to match whatever we raise, and then hopefully a bank they've contacted is going to match the total. so if we raise $2000, our teachers will give another $2000 and the bank will give $4000 --> whopping $8000 right there!  ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!
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is the Red Cross even allowed in Burma?
1 We are from Mac! 2 A little bit louder! 3 I still can't hear you! 4 more more more...
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I never understood the idea of bake sales. The time and money it takes to make the baked goods far outweighs the few dollars you can sell the stuff for.
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aibrean wrote:is the Red Cross even allowed in Burma? Yeah, there's Red Cross IN Burma. And they have allowed some aid to enter... and Red Cross technical experts will be coming in today and during the weekend.
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*Tobias is hit by a car*
Narrator: Unfortunately, it was dusk, and he couldn't be seen.
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Stringer wrote:I never understood the idea of bake sales. The time and money it takes to make the baked goods far outweighs the few dollars you can sell the stuff for. =O Must not be selling at the right price/small size of food. Also, if you bake from scratch vs. (relatively expensive) store-brought brownie/cake/whatever-mixes, that makes quite a difference. Any ideas anyone? 
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*Tobias is hit by a car*
Narrator: Unfortunately, it was dusk, and he couldn't be seen.
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Hey, um bakesales actually raise quite a bit of money if you dont' expect to be reimbursed for your baked goods. If you live in a moderately sized city, you could probably go to the major shopping districts or main roads, and go door to door for prizes. Just make sure that you have a professional-looking letter attached, and ask your teacher whether tax receipts will be allowed. I know that for my school's charity semi-formal, I went to local boutique-y districts and often restaurants, spas, etc are willing to give you a $20 gift certificate, left over stock, free hair apptments, etc if you look professional and give them a real letter, with the school's name on the sheet and a contact number. I don't know if this is aimed at students, or at the parents as well, but for the students, you can also auction off fun things like the opportunity to pie a hated teacher (one whom you've gotten permission from!) in the face. For our prom as well, to offset the costs, the graduating class auctions themselves off as "slaves" or "labourers". We all pair up, and during a school assembly, we write up a little blurb about ourselves, and people in the audience purchase the pair. As labouerers, we give up all our spares, lunch, half an hour before and after shcool, and any classes that your teachers are willing to let you miss, to do stuff for your "owners". Every year, the labouerers get dressed up ridiculously by the students (ie. guys in hoola skirts and bikini tops, superheroes, butler outfits, animals, etc), pick up the owners from home if they have a car, takes notes, carry books for hte students, and the occasional "owner' will make their labourer carry them from class to class fireman style, or in a wagon. One year, our principal gave these 2 guys 2 pieces of red carpet, and for the rest of the day, he made them lay down red carpet in front of him for every step he took. We sell for around 30-125 bucks a pair, but students team up with friends so they only pay like 5-35 bucks each. My friend bought her boyfriend last yr, and made him go into starbucks and get her coffee in a cow costume, and whenever anyone said his name, he'd have to do a little party dance it's a tradition in our school now,a nd it's pretty fun too
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Miss wrote:Hey, um bakesales actually raise quite a bit of money if you dont' expect to be reimbursed for your baked goods. If you live in a moderately sized city, you could probably go to the major shopping districts or main roads, and go door to door for prizes. Just make sure that you have a professional-looking letter attached, and ask your teacher whether tax receipts will be allowed. I know that for my school's charity semi-formal, I went to local boutique-y districts and often restaurants, spas, etc are willing to give you a $20 gift certificate, left over stock, free hair apptments, etc if you look professional and give them a real letter, with the school's name on the sheet and a contact number. I don't know if this is aimed at students, or at the parents as well, but for the students, you can also auction off fun things like the opportunity to pie a hated teacher (one whom you've gotten permission from!) in the face. For our prom as well, to offset the costs, the graduating class auctions themselves off as "slaves" or "labourers". We all pair up, and during a school assembly, we write up a little blurb about ourselves, and people in the audience purchase the pair. As labouerers, we give up all our spares, lunch, half an hour before and after shcool, and any classes that your teachers are willing to let you miss, to do stuff for your "owners". Every year, the labouerers get dressed up ridiculously by the students (ie. guys in hoola skirts and bikini tops, superheroes, butler outfits, animals, etc), pick up the owners from home if they have a car, takes notes, carry books for hte students, and the occasional "owner' will make their labourer carry them from class to class fireman style, or in a wagon. One year, our principal gave these 2 guys 2 pieces of red carpet, and for the rest of the day, he made them lay down red carpet in front of him for every step he took. We sell for around 30-125 bucks a pair, but students team up with friends so they only pay like 5-35 bucks each. My friend bought her boyfriend last yr, and made him go into starbucks and get her coffee in a cow costume, and whenever anyone said his name, he'd have to do a little party dance it's a tradition in our school now,a nd it's pretty fun too Oh wow that's great.. thanks for the advice in getting prizes/vouchers from businesses! The official letter was supposed to be made yesterday, I'm going to try and get vouchers from some fast food places. And I LOVE the pie-a-hated-teacher idea, I'm sure people will be up for that... and hopefully teachers ! Any other fun things we can auction off ideas??? We were thinking of auctioning off free-dress-day-for-multiple-days (okay that came out dull, but our uniforms suck.) if our principal is up for it, coupons letting us leave campus when we have lunch, coupon to wear flip flops at school, etc. Totally welcome to more ideas though! And haha the labourers/slave thing sounds fun, not sure how many people would be up for it though  we were thinking of having someone carry your books around all day, so a much tamer version of the slave thing. THANK YOU!
Narrator: Tobias went to a try-out for the Blue Man Group hoping to be seen.
*Tobias is hit by a car*
Narrator: Unfortunately, it was dusk, and he couldn't be seen.
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Miss wrote:For our prom as well, to offset the costs, the graduating class auctions themselves off as "slaves" or "labourers". We all pair up, and during a school assembly, we write up a little blurb about ourselves, and people in the audience purchase the pair. As labouerers, we give up all our spares, lunch, half an hour before and after shcool, and any classes that your teachers are willing to let you miss, to do stuff for your "owners". Every year, the labouerers get dressed up ridiculously by the students (ie. guys in hoola skirts and bikini tops, superheroes, butler outfits, animals, etc), pick up the owners from home if they have a car, takes notes, carry books for hte students, and the occasional "owner' will make their labourer carry them from class to class fireman style, or in a wagon. One year, our principal gave these 2 guys 2 pieces of red carpet, and for the rest of the day, he made them lay down red carpet in front of him for every step he took. We sell for around 30-125 bucks a pair, but students team up with friends so they only pay like 5-35 bucks each. My friend bought her boyfriend last yr, and made him go into starbucks and get her coffee in a cow costume, and whenever anyone said his name, he'd have to do a little party dance it's a tradition in our school now,a nd it's pretty fun too WOW LOL! I wish we could do that! That would be fun for both the slaves and owners involved. xD I'd buy myself a slave. xD
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Is it too late to post here? It's only a dozen topics down.
You've probably already done what you were going to do- I'm almost 20 days late, heh. But incase not, or if anyone else is looking for fundraising ideas...
Do donation boxes. Leave them in convenient places. Leave them at the checkout of the caf- people will be more likely to just drop some money in the box if they have change, than if they have to dig through their wallets. Do you have pop machines, payphones? Same story- just make sure they can't be stolen. People will drop their change in! Even PENNIES in this case help- a single penny equals almost a nickle!
Do raffles- two maybe, one for women, one for men. Fill them with things people generally like- the womans with purfume, lotions, and other things. The mens with, I dunno, shaving cream and razors, lol. Whatever men would like and use. Sell tickets cheap, so that people will buy a lot. Most items you can probably get donated by local stores- you'd be amazed what they'll give if you just ask! You could probably do a candy raffle too- do you have a dollar store, or a farmers market... something nearby that sells candy cheap? I was to a farmers market yesterday and WOW! The prices were GREAT! You could make a lot on raffles.
Oh I wish I was here at the beginning of the month.
I had a teacher in my old school, he'd let you borrow a calculator, go to your locker, sharpen your pencil, go for a 3 minute walk, whatever- but you had to pay a quarter. It got people to come to class prepared- but at the end of the year, he had over $300 in quarters in his little piggy bank that we donated to cancer research. You could do something similar in your classroom.
Get everyone fundraising individually! In my old school, a teacher promised to dye his hair three different colours for a day- the students picked the colours- if students raised over $5000. If they raised over $10000, he'd do it for three days- and it had to stay, even outside of school. If they raised over $15000, he would wax his CHEST! Another teacher, who had never been to school without a mustache, promised to shave it if the school raised over $30000. $37000 and the principle would wax HIS legs and chest! We ended up raising just over $40000. Everyone was saying things like 'I want to see Mr. Blahblah without his mustache!' And they'd donate money.
We had businesses donate things- free movie passes, free meal vouchers, free cd's, etc. One day we went on the stage in the caf, and for a quarter you could go on stage. You had to answer a stupid question (What's my name? What's 1+1? Whats your name? etc.) If you got it right, you got to pick something. If you got it wrong, for a nickle you could have another question. People were deliberately answering wrong!
Does your town have a local bakery? Talk to them- the day of your bake sale, they might be willing to donate day old cupcakes, etc. There's nothing wrong with them- they just don't want to sell them, and you can raise money on them.
You say you might be able to get a cell phone- Don't say that! Say 'We're getting a cell phone!' Talk to EVERY store that sells them in your area, and if THEY won't budge, call the main number, not the district store number. You WILL get a cell phone! You CAN get an iPod, you CAN get LAPTOPS! ASK ASK ASK! The businesses aren't saying 'I hear there's a fundraiser, lets go donate thousands of dollars worth of stuff.' You have to go to them! They're making MILLIONS a year! A hundred dollar cell phone is NOTHING to them!
I wish I could do something like this, it's a GREAT idea! Unfortunately, I live in the middle of no where, have no contacts, and don't have a car. Poo.
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Thanks those are awesome ideas:] (WOW FOURTY THOUSAND DOLLARS?!) and we asked fast food and ice-cream places for vouchers but got rejected. one of my friends asked EIGHT TIMES (and i think that might've just been on one day, not the total number) and got rejected over and over again.
Too late for me to use them, but future reference? lol, and anyone else who needs them.
btw I was wrong with the whole doubling tripling thing, but we still made plenty of money (at least for my school, since there's only 250 high schoolers and very little spirit). The kids and teachers raised ~2400, two of my teachers then donated 1000, and the bank donated 3000, so altogether we donated $6400-6500 :] mainly to Myanmar but a bit to Sichuan for earthquake relief as well.
Narrator: Tobias went to a try-out for the Blue Man Group hoping to be seen.
*Tobias is hit by a car*
Narrator: Unfortunately, it was dusk, and he couldn't be seen.
~Arrested Development
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