Book Fundraiser

Book Fundraiser for PTP By Tran Pham | Cypress Key Club

It’s no wonder that fundraising during quarantine would be a challenge, and it is. For the past quarter, our division’s Key Clubs were struggling to raise as much money as we would if we were back at school. All of the treasurers were pretty unfamiliar with their jobs because we never got a real chance to learn how to fundraise properly. Instead, we faced an uncertainty of how to fundraise while under quarantine. I remember going to OTC, where I was in the fundraising workshop, and a majority of the treasurers fret about their inability to fundraise as decently as they could’ve if we weren’t all stuck at home. For me, that was the case as well. However, I absolutely refused to let it stop Cypress from gaining money for PTP. As a result, I contacted various treasurers from other schools and we all came up with one very unique idea: Book Fundraising. From July 6th until August 12th, many of our Key Clubs would be collecting books as donations from our members and we’d exchange those books for money, which we’d later on donate to PTP. I met up with the treasurers almost every week for an entire month to plan out the event. We worked so hard to make sure this would work and we contacted various libraries and book buying websites. It was hectic, but we definitely got the job done. I hope that by the time the fundraiser ends, we’ll at least raise a couple hundred of dollars to further achieve our PTP goal of $13,000. I know things probably won’t get easier so soon, but the Book Fundraiser gives me hope because it just goes to show how our division really can overcome anything it wishes to. So far, we’ve received so many book donations and I really do believe that it will be a successful fundraiser. It may be a difficult time right now, but the treasurers and I will be sure to work our hardest to make an everlasting impact this term. As always, we’ll go above and beyond!