<p>Does anyone have any ideas as to what my school can do to raise money for the tsunami victims. I have thought and tossed the ideas of a bake sale, dinner, and such. Any distinct ideas. Thanks</p>
<p>Just ask people for money. That's what two clubs I'm in are doing.</p>
<p>any others. Like I want to do something that my entire club can do and which is original.</p>
<p>contact red cross. put annoucements over the PA alerting students of this fund raiser. have kids collect money during lunch.</p>
<p>we just pass around brown envelopes for loose change/donations. our student government has raised 1000 dollars already from doing that</p>
<p>We have a money drive where kids put money in buckets with a teacher's name on it, and the teacher with the most money has to kiss a pig.</p>
<p>kiss a pig... nice idea</p>
<p>our teachers get to pat a mine</p>
<p>Interested students and teachers held a large meeting today to determine how best to raise money to aid, solicit donations for, and increase awareness of the tsunami and its impact. So far, we have decided to:
* Place change buckets at cafeteria cash registers
* Send a request form in the Parent-Teacher Organization newsletter
* Ask for donations in homeroom, leave a brown envelope.
* Eventually adopt a sister city, so the support doesn't end when the media frenzy calms.</p>
<p>We're trying to raise as much as possible as soon as is feasible. We don't want our campaign to become stale, so we're planning three waves, as I said: 1) active collection for one week 2) passive collection for the remainder of the year 3) sponsor sister city indefinitely.</p>
<p>Well,the club I've launched was actually the first to start a tsunami fundraiser. In just 3 days we've raised over $450 dollars and this is through having people in all three lunches practically going around asking for money. We pretty much staged it where the people were getting refreshments, which would make them feel pretty obligated to pay, lol since we're There Asking!
Now, NHS is just beginning their own fundraiser for the tusnami relief and they're doing it during lunch(stale idea) and reserving a slot of time (cool idea) at the mall to also ask for donations there.
So, there's no need for an extravagantly "original" idea, as long as it is efficient and produces Fast and Quick money. And helping people is never going to become stale, unless the issue itself becomes stale (which isn't going to be happening prett soon). So this is the case when destination is definitely more important than the journey, really.</p>
<p>sell candy and make sure u can make a profit of 50cents for each bar</p>
<p>What our school did was to come together as a community and plan on joint efforts in order to raise money. It was very moving to see over 20 different clubs send reps to this meeting because so many clubs want to help. There were clubs raning from like the sailing club to the happiness club. As a group we came up with a bunch of different ideas. Our goal is raise 15,000. Some of these ideas are:</p>
<p>-A dance- a- thon. This is a whole night affair (like from 9-9) in which people come and sponsors pay a lump some or by hour to dance. Refreshments are sold as well as t-shirts that say something like, "I danced all night at the '05 dance-a-thon" There will be a DJ and in the past this has worked and is a lot of fun. Also in order to get the PTA involved we will also be having something like a pasta dinner, with the proceeds going to southeast Asia. </p>
<p>-Penny wars. There are 5 jugs (one for each grade and the teachers) and each grade (or teachers) put pennies in the jugs (one penny = one point). The catch is that if there is a jug that is looking like it has a lot of pennies, one can throw silver coins in the jug and thats minus points for that group (so if a snr throws a quarter in the frosh jug, thats minus 25 points). In the end which ever group has the most points wins.</p>
<p>-Bake salves galore (of course!)</p>
<p>-Tag sales. Most likely the day of the dance-a-thon. This is cheap, easy, and turns out a large profit</p>
<p>-Our school does like coffee houses, in which like local bands play and its always a lot of fun. Proceeds go to southeast Asia</p>
<p>-A battle of the bands is also a great idea. Instead of just the usual coffee houses you can have a real battle. Its fun and people really respond to competition. </p>
<p>-Selling wrist bands, like the yellow "Live strong" bracelets. We intend to sell these bracelets especially because everyone craves the live strong ones. Like the live strong ones we'll sell these bad boys for a dollar. </p>
<p>Good luck everyone!!</p>
<p>I've started a fundraiser-in-the-making. We are planning on making chocolate hearts, bagging them and making them all pretty, and then selling it to make a profit. The only thing we need to do now is get some more staff members to help, and actually put this thing into action.</p>
<p>collect clothes.how come no ones thinking about that?</p>
<p>Stop the bop! Play mmbop, that annoying hanson song everyday in the lunchroom loudly until you get a specified amount in donations. Or you could take the Spice up your Lunch approach, and play spice up your life by the spice girls loudly....</p>
<p>gh0st, I just read in article in the paper the other day about how the US has collected a few tons of clothes but there is no way to send it to the countries. Only 1/8 of the collected clothes and food donations have been sent overseas because of destroyed train tracks, airports, roads, etc. So i think it would be more useful to collect money</p>
<p>My school just collected money everyday in each class. The teacher passes the donation box around. It's simple and effective.</p>
<p>Our student government decided to have "make your change count" week, and then the council would match whatever funds we raised from that.</p>
<p>At our school, a bunch of clubs came together at one meeting to decide on a school-wide way to raise money. We ended up deciding that the easiest and most effective way is to go around at lunch period everyday for a week and ask for money/change. We are giving out Jolly Ranchers as some incentive (which I don't think is necessary), and each morning during announcements we are going to say how much money we raised the previous day and challenge the school to beat it.</p>
<p>I'm trying to get the teachers to participate in a kiss a cow thing at our school.</p>
<p>Thanks for the great ideas!!!</p>
<p>I am Co-President on my local Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA), and this year has been horrible. First, the flu shots deal happens, messing up our huge yearly free flu shot event. Then all the local health fairs got cancelled for reasons I can't remember, so we have had a horrible number of events this year.</p>
<p>I've already contacted our HOSA Historian and tomorrow at school we will start up a fundraiser for the tsunami. We are going to walk around with jars during lunch, try to put jars next to the cash registers at lunch, set up stations people pass by as soon as they get to school, and also play MMBOP throughout the hallways during class change (my favorite idea, thanks!). </p>
<p>Another idea I came up with was to contact all teachers in a certain subject (like all the math teachers) and see if they will offer classroom incentives for donations. For example, if a certain class donates $50, the teacher will give bonus points to everyone, give them homework passes, make a test easier, or something like that. </p>
<p>One question though....what organization would we give this money to in order to ensure it was used for the tsunami relief? Red Cross?</p>