<p>no one cares about it at all. This is my favorite club. AND ITS DEAD. How the hell can I revive it when there's no support for it. Everyone who was in it quit, because of the high debt. </p>
<p>I wasn't in it when this debt was started.</p>
<p>So ideas on how to revive the club?</p>
<p>Advertise advertise advertise. That is the most important thing of all. Look at other similar clubs, and think of some ideas that would make people join. Get the club meeting times to be announced on the announcements, etc. Once you get people who are interested, you can hold fundraisers, among other things.</p>
<p>Why is it in dept, where was the money spent?</p>
<p>You need to sell ad space on the newspapers.</p>
<p>You need a number of things. </p>
<p>1). A great advisor teacher. A good teacher who truly cares about the club can make or break it. If your current supervising teacher is not up to the task, politely replace him/her with a good excuse. </p>
<p>2). Fundraise, fundraise, fundraise... Do anything. Carwashes, selling candy on campus, food before or after school, as said above sell ad space. Or if worst comes to worst, collect membership fees. </p>
<p>3). Recruit talented members who care deeply about this club. Good people are like nuggets in a pile of gravel. Select the right ones, put them in leadership positions, and they will take on a lot of the work. </p>
<p>4). Revise strategy for the club. What does journalism do in your school now? Maybe you should take a different approach. See what other school's journalism club/classes are doing. A new plan like online journalism may promote more interest. </p>
<p>5). Get parents involved. I don't really recommend this, but have parents call parents and talk about the club. Who knows, maybe someone's rich dad will get out of his Mercedes and pay off the debt. Also, parents are useful for coordinating fundraisers and getting the school's attention in vital issues.</p>
<p>P.S. I have a similar yet different problem with this club I'm in. The club generates no interest among members but our account has 800 dollars sitting there. Red Robin hamburgers later!</p>
<p>I run a different kind of organization and even with an adviser who literally does NOTHING, I've found that with a dedicated board (or in my case I just have ONE dedicated VP and that's it) we've been able to fundraise more than enough to cover our costs. Experience with another organization where I ran fundraising, I found that if you can relate what you're doing to what a local or maybe not local, but large company is doing, you can convince them to give you financial support or let you do stuff like use their equipment for free. Or pull the "for the sake of education and community service" line on them effectively and contact enough companies; there's bound to be at least one place that'll fund you. Selling ads is good too, that wasn't an option for me, but I hear you can make a good deal off that.</p>
<p>how'd it get $600 in debt?!?! lmao. who do u owe the money to?!</p>