<p>So is there anybody here involved in the charity Invisible Children? We are currently working on starting a chapter at my high school but it hasn't been very successful thus far. Anybody here with experience who could give my friends and me some advice?</p>
<p>Make sure you ask as many teachers as you can in a particular department to show the movie in your school. That managed to generate a lot of (initial) interest in the program at my school.</p>
<p>We've shown the movie 3 times already. The problem is, my school is HUGE and we have like 100 clubs and everybody is already soooo busy. Plus, the people at my school frankly don't care because they're more worried about getting their next hollister shirt or about spending their money at the local Starbucks (gag) then about helping out or even giving us the opportunity to speak to them. We even sell the products at lunch, but there's only like 5 out of about 6000+ people that seem to care at all. We have teacher support but it doesn't seem to be helping.</p>
<p>Well, the most profitable fundraising that I've seen (though not used for Invisible Children) is getting the administration to let a local food place to sell their stuff at the school (which is great for the students too because we have a "closed campus"). The club gets a small portion and that could be used as donations, etc. </p>
<p>Is your school gonna do the Displace Me thing?</p>
<p>My APUSH teacher got it so that all students watched it during their social studies class. Needless to say, after watching it, the T-Shirts flew off the shelves, along with those cool bracelets.</p>
<p>Yes. My friend is running the Displace Me thing and we're taking donations. She raised $75 just by word of mouth today ($5/person). She is very charismatic though, unlike me. Ours is in Chicago. Are you doing it?</p>
<p>Caring for genocide is the new prada bag.</p>
<p>I don't even know for sure what Prada is. =[.</p>
<p>Ya, a few kids at my school are doing the Displace Me thing. I can't go though. </p>
<p>Our chapter is getting really petty it's kinda sad. People have lost sight of the true focus. The president only started the club for college admissions. It's pretty sick. Though, I guess, as long as something good is being done, despite not-so-pure underlying reasons...</p>
<p>Yeah, we don't have an official president yet but the unoficial leader is deffinatly NOT doing it for college admissions (mainly because she is barely passing and has no apiration for college.)</p>
<p>I just watched this movie today, and I know that a club is in the process of forming at my school, but I haven't heard of the "Displace Me" thing, what is it?</p>
<p>YES! My friends and I just got into it this year - we have a really great international relations teacher who showed us the movie and the bracelet DVDs in class, and things just kind of snowballed from there. Last month our Secular Student Alliance club did a screening, and we had about 100 people come and raised almost $500. It was an amazing experience. </p>
<p>I wanted to do the Displace Me thing, but I have a show that night. sigh.</p>
<p>Displace Me is something where they take you and you go and sleep outside for a day away from everything you know (major cities, ours is Chicago) so that you can get a taste of what it's like to be displaced. Tens of thousands of people do it each year. Go to the website, it'll tell you more.
www (dot) invisiblechildren (dot) com/displaceMe/</p>
<p>Hey you guys.</p>
<p>Say that I do decide to start a project like this in my school. Besides talking about raising money for this cause (which is obviously the most important thing), what else could be done at after school meetings?</p>
<p>Decide what kinds of ways you can help raise awareness. The only thing other then that that you can really do is set up fund raisers.</p>