The Annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life for the Coos Bay North Bend chapter is just around the corner and teams have already begun to raise money. The Cardinal staff team held their Café Lunch fundraiser on May 30th where they served steak sandwiches with a suggested donation of $5.
There are 41 teams signed up this year with hopes to raise $94,000. The relay for life is set to happen on June 21 and 22.
Fundraising for a skate park is now underway for Hightstown, New Jersey. The $150,000 to $250,000 project will provide students a safe, designated area to skate. Awareness of the fundraising event will be passed out on fliers which will encourage students to enter a $10 design a T-Shirt and skateboard deck contest. The community hopes to raise all the money through fundraising events, grants, and donations.
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maryland raised over $60,000 for local children and families over their three day event. The important agency helps youth reach their potential by providing supported mentor relationships.
Some of the events that were held during the three days was wine tasting, a golf outing, and auctions.
(TheBayNet.com - Pete Hurrey, 5/11/08)
After three days of charitable events, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maryland raised over $60,000 for local children and families. The agency helps youth reach their potential by providing supported mentor relationships.
Kaylan Somerville, BBBS-SM Director of Development said, “Our programs make a big impact, the difference in some cases between success and failure, resiliency and defeatism.” She went on to state that Big Brothers Big Sisters is needed now more than ever. “We have the responsibility to our children to keep our programs moving forward linking more young people to capable adults.”
BBBS-SM like many other area non-profits are feeling the affects of the economy. Given that much of their funds primarily come from Federal grants, they are trying to sustain programs by developing more diverse streams of revenue; no longer able to rely solely on grants.
“We are building civic relationships to help foster the retention of quality volunteers and to expand our services, Somerville said.
BBBS-SM held its inaugural Big Red, White and Blue wine tasting event last weekend at the new Regency Furniture stadium. The event hosted hundreds concerned about the welfare of local children. They auctioned off trips to Sonoma and Italy, an ATV, the CW’s tour bus with 12 tickets to Kings Dominion, along with a variety of gift certificates for home improvements, local restaurants, spa treatments, professional sporting events and more.
“Everyone had a great time and vowed to be back next year. It was great to watch the game, enjoy great food and mingle with local celebrities,” Somerville beamed.
The following day the Arby’s Foundation and the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs sponsored a golf tournament at Swan Point for BBS-SM. The agency was able to treat some of their [VIPS] and outstanding supporters to free foursomes.
The agency understands that everyone needs to give back, an ethic that builds character and community. Anyone interested in being involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters as a volunteer mentor, board member, event committee member or simply want to learn more, please contact the main office at 301.290.0501.
“You don’t have to change your life to impact a child’s,” Somerville said.
If you are looking for unusual fundraisers and a unique fundraising opportunity, then the people at Deer Creek High School have provided us with a wonderful solution. The week of March 10, 2008 the students and teachers of Deer Creak held their annual Wonderful Week of Fundraising to raise money for Ally’s House, which helps families of children with cancer.
Their goal was to raise $26,000 and instead with the unique fundraisers and fundraising events they raised $47,245. To raise this amount for such a great cause, the school held a teacher “ugly dress” beauty pageant. This even allowed some of the teachers to show some of their other talents such as their Science teacher reading “Three Pigs” from the wolf’s perspective while showing his chemistry prowess with flammable gasses. The Spanish teacher performed a dance routine with other students and played some cowbells.
To also support the cause, the English teacher sold T-shirts and held auctions in her classroom.
Great job to Deer Creek High School for their ugly dress beauty pageant, lip-syncing, and stand up comedy acts to raise money for Ally’s House!
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Many kudos to Keith Frick and Bob Thunselle; cyclists in Wyoming who have been raising money for the Ronald McDonald House in Denver. They are nearing their $100,000 goal which is needed for a “Wyoming” room in the newly renovated Ronald McDonald House. The Wyoming room will be a place for Wyoming children, who are patients in Denver-area hospitals, and their families can stay.
Keith Frick and Bob Thunselle have been on many bike rides together, some including ridding across the state of South Dakota and through the Mojave Desert and Death Valley in something known as the “Furnace Creek 508.”
Barbara Hill, a teacher from Bartlett Elementary, developed a unique way to raise profits through a different kind of bake sale. Barbara and her class make and sell pretzels to help raise the money they need for UNICEF.
Making and selling pretzels helps teach the kids about donating their time and a few principles on how to run a business. Thanks to the Daily Herald for sharing this story and best of luck to Barbara Hill and her pretzel making class!
(Daily Herald - Arlene Miles, 11/12/2007)
Ideas for school projects sometimes occur when you least expect them.
That’s what happened when Barbara Hill read a Scholastic News article with her class. Thus was born an annual fundraiser where fourth-graders at Bartlett Elementary School make fancy pretzels to raise money for UNICEF.
The fundraiser is in its fifth year with about $1,000 raised and donated annually.
The fourth-grade classes alternate weeks to make and sell the pretzels, taking pre-orders on a Monday, making the pretzels on a Thursday, and selling the goodies on a Friday.
About 600-1,000 pretzels are sold for 50 cents apiece each week during the fundraiser.
The students dip pretzel rods into melted chocolate, sometimes spooning the thick concoction onto the pretzel. Parents donate the supplies used to make the treats. The entire process takes about 90 minutes.
“We watch them (the students) like hawks to make sure that their hands stay where they are supposed to while they’re making the pretzels so we don’t get any bacteria in there,” Hill said.
The fourth-grade curriculum also incorporates what it is like to own and maintain a business, Hill added. Producing and selling the pretzels, is, in a way, a miniature business. Thus, the activity serves two purposes: to educate students about charitable work as well as what it takes to run a business.
“This is one of the few fundraising activities where the kids are doing all of the work,” Hill said. They have a greater understanding of what it takes to donate their time.”
Of course, there is one additional benefit from participating in this fundraiser. Students get to eat the leftovers — and who wouldn’t enjoy?
Dance to your fundraising goal has been a unique moto by a dance club based in Bridgwater. Members of the Riviera LeRoc club raised approximately $170 for St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice by doing pavement dance demonstrations.
The dance was a good way to get the community involved for they were also invited to come and take part at some modern jive.
Fundraising’s not just for fun, it teaches morals too. Kids learn about work ethic through the whole fundraising process. See something you need or want and work hard to achieve it.
(AUTUMN PHELPS) 8/27/2007
While youth fundraisers help make expensive activities affordable, they also can teach kids about work ethic. The Boy Scouts are a prime example.
“There are a couple of skills that they learn,” said Kevin Litt, Boy Scouts field director for Brevard and Osceola counties. “The most important is that if they do some work, they get a reward for it. We want our boys not to expect their parents to pay for everything.”
The biggest fundraiser of the year for local Boy Scout troops, which begins Sept. 10, is popcorn sales. At many Lowe’s, Wal-Mart and Publix locations, troops will sell pre-packaged gourmet popcorn, what some call the Boy Scout equivalent to Girl Scout cookies.
“The Cub Scouts tend to do the best because they’re the cutest,” Litt joked.
But all levels of Boy Scout Troops reap the benefits of popcorn sales, as about 35 percent of the money goes directly to the troops to use for camping trips and other programs, Litt said.
Harley-Davidson fundraising efforts raised $87,000 for MDA at Sturgis Rally in South Dakota.
(WebWire) 8/22/2007 10:46:28 AM
Harley-Davidson’s fundraising efforts for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) raised more than $87,000 during the 2007 Sturgis Rally in Sturgis, SD. Harley-Davidson employees, MDA organizers and event volunteers participated in various activities to raise dollars during the event August 4-11.
Harley-Davidson and MDA volunteers sold event pins and raffle tickets for a 2008 Harley-Davidson FXSTC Softail Custom motorcycle customized by Willie G Davidson with special Sturgis graphics. As an added feature the motorcycle was fully accessorized with Genuine Motor Accessories™ installed live at the Harley-Davidson Road Tour Festival site at Rapid City’s Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. Rachel Hauser of Omaha, Nebraska won the one of a kind motorcycle.
Harley-Davidson has been a national sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association since 1980 and the family of dealers, riders, suppliers and employees has raised more than $60 million for MDA. The funds raised support life-saving research, comprehensive medical care for children and adults with neuromuscular disease and MDA summer camps.
From Tewksbury, Massachusetts, one woman makes jewelry to sponsor herself in marathon walks to raise money in the fight against breast cancer. She also works full time, is writing a dissertation for her doctorate, and still trains for her walks (and I’m sure somewhere in all this has time for family and friends).
The art of fundraising
By Linda Kush/ Staff Writer
Thursday, August 3, 2006 - Updated: 08:29 AM ESTOne afternoon last summer, Heather Maietta trudged along on aching, tired feet. Cranky and exhausted, she wondered what she could have been thinking when she decided to do this. It was the first day of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day walk, and the 22-mile leg was almost done.
“I was so tired I didn’t even eat dinner, and I said to myself, ’I’m never doing this again,’” she said. “Then three days later after the closing ceremonies, I walked right over to the tent and signed up for next year.”
Although that first day was tough, the 60-mile walk over three days got easier. Every two miles, children and cancer survivors shouted support from the roadside. At night, she and hundreds of other walkers slept in a tent compound. The 34-year-old Tewksbury resident reveled in the sense of community and was proud that she had raised the required $2,100 to do the walk. The funds would help find a cure for breast cancer.
“It’s one of the most positive experiences I’ve ever had,” she said.
In fact, it was so positive that she’s doing it again this weekend, Aug. 4, 5 and 6.
But this time, raising the money seemed more daunting. It didn’t feel right to go back to the same friends and relatives for contributions.
Then she had the idea to let her jewelry raise the money for her.
Maietta designs jewelry and sells it at craft fairs, on her Web site and in places like Touch of Elegance salon in Tewksbury. Clusters of beads in subtle colors decorate her bracelets, necklaces, earrings and watches.
“I started out making jewelry for my sisters and for myself, and people would buy it off my body,” she said, extending a tanned arm to display a bracelet of aqua, green and clear glass beads. Someone would compliment her on a bracelet, and when she said she made it, they would ask her to make one for them. “But I could never make the exact same thing, so I would just take it off my wrist and sell it to them right there,” she said.
Her hobby grew into a business, heather M design.
She created a special line of jewelry to raise money for this year’s Breast Cancer 3-Day. Proceeds go toward the $2,200 she needs for the walk, and each piece with its pink ribbon motif raises more than just money.
“If someone is wearing jewelry with a pink ribbon, it raises awareness,” she said. “Raising the money is the hardest part, but doing it in conjunction with my business makes it a no-brainer.”
It’s a wonder she could find any time to do all that’s on her plate. In addition to making jewelry and selling it at craft shows on weekends, she works full time for the Arlington Department of Recreation while writing a dissertation for her doctorate in Education Administration and Community Leadership.
“The busier I am, the better I am, the more organized I am with my time,” she said.
Maietta was moved to do something for breast cancer research after her grandmother had a mastectomy that left her with limited use of her arm due to nerve damage.
“I have two sisters and a niece. I did it for them, my grandmother, my mother and myself.”
Maietta walks with a team, Wild Women Originals, 200 members who do fundraising walks and other activities to promote breast cancer research. Since 2002, they have raised over $1.9 million. Last year Maietta organized a craft fair with her team to help others raise money for the walk.
Lynn Ostberg, a WWO team captain, said, “With all the craft shows she does, Heather always has information about our team. More people find us through her.”
Maietta began preparing for this weekend’s walk last fall. She trains about 35 miles a week, not only for general fitness, but to toughen her feet so she can walk 60 miles over three days without blisters.
“Getting ready for this walk is like when I was planning my wedding,” she said, married to a Watertown firefighter.
“All the preparation, raising the money was difficult and the training is difficult. But it’s exciting now that it’s really happening. I look forward to doing it at last.”
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