<p>Hi, I'm a junior and I qualified to go to nationals in Florida for HOSA, a healthscience organization, but it costs $1,200 and my brother is also going so it's going to be like $2,000 out of pocket with the school grants. </p>
<p>The advisor already emailed places for sponsors but I doubt that it'll make a dent in the cost. </p>
<p>So please share any ideas to raise some money.</p>
<p>Put up flyers throughout the neighborhood offering to do odd jobs for money. Offer to run rummage sales for a % of the profits, clean gutters, yardwork , errands, babysitting, etc. Put up things to see on ebay. Run a car wash, have your family host a spaghetti dinner, etc. If you have people in the neighborhood that are willing to donate, go ask for sponsors (but be prepared to be turned down at a lot of places since this benefits an individual rather than a group). </p>
<p>Can you get a summer job and pay for some of the costs yourself? </p>
<p>There was another thread about this earlier but it was long on condemnation and short on suggestions.</p>
<p>Congratulations!
When exactly is HOSA? How much time do you have to raise the money?</p>
<p>Is this through a technical center? I sit on an advisory board and 2 of our students qualified for HOSA nationals last year. This was a huge honor for the school, but there was no money available from the school or the students and time was short. Another colleague and I footed the bill even though it benefited individuals. </p>
<p>Do you have an advisory board and can you contact its members? Talk to your instructor. Write a personal letter describing your accomplishments, how you have advanced to the natl level, and what specific area you are competing in. Ask for donations toward your travel costs. We were able to donate to the school’s 501c3 and get a deduction. Good luck and CONGRATULATIONS!!</p>
<p>We raise $2-3,000 each year running good old fashioned car washes and bake sales. You needs lots of people for each, though. An adult to collect the money and kids to hose down the cars, wash them with soap, dry them with lots of clean, dry towels. And of course with bake sales, many parents to bake! Smaller items that you can pick up and eat sometimes goes faster than larger cakes, pies, etc., but not always! Better to have more smaller items. We never ask for an amount, just a donation. So if you were to sell cookies normally for $2, someone may give you a $5 bill because it’s a fundraiser.</p>
<p>A friend of mine’s daughter runs a garage sale every year. She does a 60/40 split with the original owners and picks up people’s stuff for them, marks it’s price etc. Actually, it’s a great deal of work. She give 1/3 of the profits to a named charity every year, another 1/3 she saves and 1/3 she uses for her own goals, which has included travel abroad since the parents have a rule for stuff like that, the kid invests in his own future by paying half. It’s amazing what they are and aren’t willing to work for and the parents conclude that if they are willing to part with their own money, they must be wanting to do it bad enough.</p>
<p>Fundraising is not merely sticking one’s hand out for sponsorship, and I deplore being hit up for a ring of a doorbell or email marketing. There needs to be a larger purpose than oneself in my book.</p>
<p>often sports teams let organizations work the concession stands for a share of the evenings earnings…are there any pro or minor league teams in your area?</p>
<p>Our sons’ club soccer team often went to local soccer fields and sold snacks and drinks from wagons they pulled around to all of the fields</p>
<p>Pop can drive. Go after a holiday or during the graduation open house season. You can raise lots of $$ going door to door.</p>
<p>^^Too funny. I’ve been out of the midwest for so many years now that I read dentmom4’s post as, “Dad can drive [the car]” and I was totally confused.</p>
<p>Sop14, I grew up in the midwest (have been away for many years), I read it like you did, and I was very confused too.</p>
<p>Can you tutor? D makes good money tutoring.</p>
<p>I too read that as Dad will drive the car and I am from the east and still call it pop!</p>
<p>Thank You everyone! these are great ideas and I need to raise the money by June.</p>
<p>The idea of doing a yard sale can work out very well if you start asking for donated items from everyone you know. Plenty of friends, neighbors, relatives may donate items… even big furniture pieces… for you to sell. Anything unsold by your deadline can be donated to a local non-profit re-sale charity and you can use the receipt from that donation with your taxes next year. I know of three different girls in my area who did yard sales like that (asking for donations beyond their family) to fund their Girl Scout Gold Award projects last year. One girl made over $1000 and the least amount raised was about $400. </p>
<p>In our area, people throw stuff out for their regular weekly garbage pickup in the back alleys behind houses. Plenty of people will go and knock on that person’s door and ask if they can take a still usable item. Most owners let them do it. Of course, other people just wait until it’s dark and they go collect it. (could be dangerous) If people are throwing something useable away because they replaced it with something newer or if someone left a bunch of stuff behind at a rental house when they moved, the people who put it on the curb usually don’t mind if you ask if you can keep it out of the landfill.</p>