What's the best way to celebrate a school anniversary and raise money?
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baking cookies etc..\nor sell cheap as fizzy drinks\nhome made lemonade
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put on a benefit concert. a lot of times places like the local elks club, or lions club (or whatever there is in your town) will donate the hall for the night. go to the music store in your town (guitars and stuff, not cd's) and ask about bands. most local bands will be happy to do it, just to get the exposure. when you have 4 or 5 bands you can sell tickets. charge $5 a ticket or something. then, have a donation table and a raffle/food/drink/games at the gig. things like that can raise a few thousand a night.
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Start a fund through: http://www.active.com/activegiving/. Then promote it online ....I'm sure if you promote it hard enough you'll be able to get donations.
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Community Events \nContact the local Convention and Visitors Bureau, as well as the local Chambers of Commerce for information regarding sightseeing tours and other activities.\n\nFamily Reunion Cruise\nRock climbing, golf, tennis, spas, swimming, movies, shows  and lots and lots of food!\n\nStory Telling \nTell stories thru peotry, music, recital and oral story telling and stand up comedy. Often the height of the reunion event that brings back the memories. \n\nFamily Reunion Photo Swap\nMembers bring new and old photos  indluding pictures with historic value and the great-greats at the old homestead  and even previous reunions. Photos should be labeled with name of owner.  \n\nFamily Reunion Olympics\nThe family reunion olympic games is a great opportunity to hold special events allowing teams members from each family to participate while drawing close to one another.  Sports events allow  different age groups to participate. Each team selects its name state/county and design their own banner.  It's a lot of fun.\n\nJigsaw Puzzle Race\nOther young adult activities that challenge the intellect and reflex are the family portrait jig-saw puzzle challenge. Using previous years family reunion photos create two card table sized jigsaw puzzles from the photos. Select several family members for each team to assemble the puzzles on their table. The puzzle could have a well known fact, slogan or metaphor unique to the family printed on it before cutting. The first team to assemble  the puzzle enough to guess the phrase wins. \n\nReunion “Survivor” Game  \nThis game draws from the Survivor TV show. It will capture the attention of everyone. The key is to survive (complete) a series of daring feats including a jump rope line, keeping up the hoola hoop for 2 minutes, Dodge ball with velcro vest and  velcro ball (20 hits),  Remember to keep it.\n\nThe "Amazing Race" \nThe race borrows from the popular Television show and is sure to be a big hit. Select several families to complete a 3 mile race with several stops along the way providing destination clues. Cover the race with your live web cam wired to a big screen TV for spectator coverage. Make the race a one hour event. The family that wins gets a gift certificate to a theme park or restuarant. \n\n"American Idol" \nThe Idol style game is basically a talent show featuring three categories of song, dance, and stand up comedy. Have a panel of three judges whose aim is to shower each contestant with praise and exagerated compliments but votes on cards. Each card is placed in a box.  The host adds up the vote tally to reveal the winner in each talent category. \n\nFor more ideas there's a family reunion activities idea list in the evaluation software provided by some of the sites below.
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Find something to make the birthday meaningful. Plant a tree on your special day. Volunteer some place where your help is needed. End a grudge. Adopt a pet. Start an exercise program. Sign up for a course. Perform a random act of kindness. Give to others, yourself, the earth, to make your birthday special.
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We have a dinner/auction.  People go around to local stores asking for donations.  Every class donates a themed basket and they put it up for auction at the dinner.  It has made big money for the school.\nHope this helps!
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Usually they are planned around the city where you went to school.\n\nAre you actually wanting to plan a reunion for all students, or for just a handful of friends?\n\nYou need to reserve a place for dinner and dancing with a rough idea of how many will attend. In a class reunion you can expect maybe half (even when they are bringing their spouses). Of course 10 years is different then a 30 year reunion.\n\nYou may also want to have a couple of hotels notified and perhaps can get a discount if they mention the reunion.\n\nSend out invitations and wait for the RSVP. Then you notify the hall of how many are attending. Have them pay the fee up front, because if they do not have to pay until they get here and then they do not come for whatever reason then you will be stuck with the bill.\n\nOn the other hand, if there are just 20 of you or so, you can reserve a private room in a restaurant and everyone can just pay their own bill.\n\nOften the weekends will include a dinner and dancing on Saturday. Sometimes on Friday evening everyone will meet a bar or local hangout. If there is a home game that night they sometimes go to that. People reminisce and have a drink or 2. Saturday morning will often include a tour of the school (if you can arrange it with the administration). Sometimes you can arrange a tour of a local attraction or historical landmark.
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Open a bag of Doritoes.\nI guarentee it will spread love and joy.
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maybe get everyone in the class to chip in and throw him/her a suprise party. i did that for one of my teachers before w/ a couple of friend and she was realli moved. she was touched that we organized everything and had everyone participate.
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Firts approach the hall where you want to have it. Find out the cost of hire. Playgroups are usually non-profit but you will need to charge a couple of dollars to cover expensenses.Until recently I was a treasurer for a playgroup. We had adults morning tea on a roster system-someone differant bought something each week. The same with a craft.We did raffles in our group.Eg Easter time we all bought an item or two to raffle off in hampers to raise some money for things like new toys coffee etc. You can ask local schools to put ads in newsletter for unwanted toys, and also new members. Start with a few friends, and if you have to advertise in the local paper. The important thing is you need donations to start with. In QLD Australia we have a state wide Playgroup Association who have good ideas, and starting points, but I have no idea if these things are world-wide. You could approach local business for your basics...coffee, tea etc until the funds started coming in. For the kids morning tea each parent would bring a piece of fruit, and we'd cut it up and share it
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Writing a sincere note/letter would make their day. It did to my boss. It shows them that you really appreciate what they did for you. If you want to include a little something, go to the school book store and I am sure you can find something small with the school's name to include. Something they can keep on their desk in their office like a mug would be a nice small thank you gift. Keep in touch with them telling them of your progress. They in turn will no doubt write back to you giving you any support you may need. A gift caard can get used up and forgotten about. Let them be able to remember you and say to themselves "I am glad I am a teacher." .
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Some things I've done with my school are like hosting a Battle of the Bands or hosting your own personal car show. Advertise your cause alot, it's a lot easier for people to pay for something that's for a good cause. Another good idea might be to do crafty things, like make bracelets and beaded keychains? Tye-Dye is always attractive, pretty easy to do, Wal-mart has cheap dye that's FUN. Lol, that's all I got, good luck with your fundraiser.
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You can look up fundraising on the net and find lots of companies that are willing to help you sell their stuff. Also, many direct sales companies, like Avon, have a fundraising catalog you can sell from, giving you a portion of the sales. Of course, there's always the time honored ones like bake sales, brat & hot dog sales, car washes, garage sales, auctions, golf events, walks & rides (for miles traveled), raffles and other such activities. You can put cans out at several businesses, with your particular event listed on the side. Hold a spaghetti, chili, chicken, steak, soup, salad, or other such dinner. I belong to Habitat For Humanity and I'm on the fundraising committee. We're looking for new ideas, because we've done all the above ideas. They're good, but we're always looking for something unique, that will get people's attention. We do something called Shanty Town, where everyone goes around getting pledges to sleep in a cardboard box overnight. They create whatever kind of box they want, decorating it and coming up with themes or whatever. We've turned it into a real festival, with rides and games, music & food. This was our third year and we raised over $12,000...and in a rural community too!. Being creative is important, because there are hundreds of other organizations trying to do the same thing. Hope it all works out for you. <*)))><
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Watch the movie Election.  I'm sure the mechanism will vary with the school.  One idea I always wanted to do long long long ago when I was a student.......have a make out booth with your pamphlets.
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1st year is paper. Some ideas to go along with that are:\n\n1. Write him a love letter about the joys your first year together have brought you and your hopes and dreams for the future.\n\n2. Something you make with origami like the crane for "good luck"\n\n3. Cash munnney (like Fez says on "that 70s show")\n\n4. Have a "Best Husband" certificate made up at Kinkos or someplace; or do a poster or paper banner to that effect.\n\n5. Get him a subscription for a year's worth of his favorite magazine "Welder's Monthly" or SI or something.\n\nLet your imagination run wild: Greet him at the door wrapped in gift wrap and YOU be his gift!\n\nHave fun!
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Usually it's something like candy or pizza sales. My school used two succesful fund raisers. A car wash, which for elementary has it's downfalls, and our biggest was a garage sale. People would donate items, staff would price them, advertisements & flyers went up about 2 weeks before the sale. It became an annual event. The items were put in the school gym so weather wouldn't effect it. Hotdogs, chili, desserts and soda were provided by the Mother's club for purchase, which brought even more money. It's become a totally successful fund raiser and we see many schools doing the same program.
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write/find some good poem, and use your creativity with some flower pictures in powerpoint and make a nice image out of it. Then get a real good Frame sold especially for anniversaries, and insert the printed image(poem) in the frame. that wud be a nice thing with a jewel and flower gift. Also get some nice yankee candles...