February 2017 Edition| Region 15 | CNH District
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The 71st Annual Cali-Nev-Ha District Convention will be held in Anaheim, CA April 6-9, 2017
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Host a bake sale at school before or after school or in front of a local store
Even if you’ve already done one sale, do it again. It’s always successful! Have members bake goods to sell such as cookies, cupcakes, brownies, etc.
Basically, kids collect a certain amount of money to throw a teacher in “jail” for a class period. You could pit teacher against teacher, with all the classes for a specific teacher competing against all the classes for the other teachers. Then, the “winning” classes are turned over to a couple of responsible adults for a specific chosen period. An assembly or fun sports/games activities, or something of that nature, could be arranged for the classes, possibly in the school gym or theater. In reality, the teacher for the winning classes just stays in the classroom and grades papers or takes a nap, while the students get a free class period to hang out for a special activity! With multiple class periods in a day, you can make a lot of money off of this fundraiser.
Sponsor a dinner that features different cuisines, such as Mexican, Asian and Italian.
Ask your club members to provide the dishes.
Sell tickets to the dinner.
Hold a donation drawing at the dinner with prizes provided by members. Sell placemat ads for the dinner to local individuals and businesses, with ads selling for anywhere from $20-$50. Create the placemats template with the names of the sponsoring businesses printed in different sizes, dependent upon how much they donated. Then get the placemats printed on 11” by 17” paper and use them that evening.
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This is a great fundraiser to host on a weekly or monthly basis. Announce the deadline to submit pictures and give students an email address that they can use to send in their images. You can even make each separate contest themed. During Valentine season, have a lovethemed photo contest. When students are studying for finals, have a study-tip themed contest. Once students have sent in their pictures, display them in a central location and have people vote with their dollars or change on their favorite image. The winner gets a small prize. If done regularly, you could make a lot of money from this fundraiser.
Have students pay $1 to guess how many jellybeans are in the jar, and at the end of a week of guessing, make an announcement over the school’s intercom of the winner, which will be the person who guessed the number closest to the amount of jellybeans in the jar. The winner gets to keep the jar of jellybeans, and you have just raised money in a snap! You could also do this at a Kiwanis meeting & maybe ask for $2 a guess, (or whatever they want to donate)!
Buy a fish bowl; (or, even better, have one donated), and place it in a central location with lots of foot traffic. Place instructions that students and teachers can drop off their spare change and bills to fill the fish bowl as quickly as possible. You can even turn it into a competition between classes or grades to see who can fill a small fish bowl the fastest. If you have 4 bowls, and you label them each with a class name, like Seniors… you could have a table set up at lunchtime and run a class competition.
Students can pay a certain fee to enter the contest, and they can also obtain pledges from family members and friends who want to sponsor their hip-swinging hula-hooping! Gather all the hoopers in the gym or outside if it’s a beautiful day and start the clock. Whoever can hula for the longest amount of time is the winner. Because not many people can hula hoop for hours on end, you can have several rounds or even have a bracket system with students going head to head (or hip to hip!). You could even make this a club event—within your membership, if you wanted. Ask those entering to pay a minimum of $10 or $15…. money they collected from sponsors
Things to remember about scratch cards:
The idea is easy to understand, both to your fundraising volunteers and to the public It can be "worked" on any occasion; (i.e. work, home or social events) Needs no special equipment other than the scratch cards Can (should?) involve the whole fundraising team and any others who want to get involved Is not dependent on the weather Is a low cost way for people to support you Will bring in good returns - a scratch card fundraiser can be surprisingly profitable
Rubber ducks are “sold” to participants who then write their name and ph Then, the ducks are placed on a river, pond or, as a last resort, in a large and the person who bought that duck wins a prize.
If you plan to use a river or pond, you should check with your town or city to do a test run with a few dozen ducks in order to determine the finish lin reach on their own!
Next, you will need to determine what the prize will be. Obviously, the larg businesses will be happy to sponsor such a fundraising event by donating (perhaps a first, second and third place winner) is another way to increas
Once a date, prizes and a location has been chosen, start to get the wor from entire communities. Some fundraisers may only get interest from peo wider interest. The key is to get the word out. Use the local newspaper a probably be able to interest the editor in doing an advance story to help
Offer advance sales of ducks and allow people to purchase them right u
If you really want to make it memorable, Invite television stations to cover You may even consider setting up food and beverage carts as a way to
What You Will Need:
A large quantity of rubber ducks. Call wholesalers and look online for the start. The perfect location. Start scouting as soon as possible, so you will have p
Prizes. The bigger, the better. Local businesses need tax write-offs, so don’
hone number on each duck they purchase. Be sure to use waterproof ink! pool. The duck that reaches a predetermined finish line first is the winner,
y officials to see if you need to obtain a permit. It may also be a good idea ne. You don’t want to declare a finish line that is impossible for the ducks to
ger the prize, the more participation you can expect. Often, local g goods or services as a prize. Opting to have more than one winner se interest and therefore sales.
rd out about the event. This is the type of fundraiser that will draw interest ople tied to the organization, but this fundraiser has the potential for much and radio stations. If your newspaper has a community section, you will increase participation.
p until the event begins.
r the start of the event, and make the atmosphere as festive as possible. raise additional funds.
best prices on rubber ducks in bulk. Oriental Trading is a good place to
lenty of time to obtain any necessary permits.
’t be afraid to ask for their help.
Region 15 Advisor: Tricia Shindledecker: cnhkc.r15.advisor@gma
Region 15 Advisor Assistant: Sue Cummins: cummins@sonic.net
Division 20/32 Lieutenant Governor (LTG) Fatima Aguilar: d2032.
District Convention (DCON) Coordinator: Atziry Rodriguez: zirirod
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