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Okay, I'm not sure how many of you have heard of FCCLA (Family, Career, Community Leaders of America) But some friends and I have recently joined the club after participating in a few meetings. Well we're having trouble coming up with a fundraising event. We've already gotten school beautification down for our "help the school" event, we have an idea for charity (a easter egg hunt at the clubhouse in my neighborhood because I can get it for cheap pricing) But all we need left is a fundraiser event. We suggested car wash but out of the two teachers involved one is planning a wedding and the other is expecting grandchildren between now and like April (more than one of her children are expecting) so they said no events that can take pleace Saturday's and stuff. We also can't sell foods during school hours (the foods and nutrition one group already has that) We were going to sell roses for Valentines Day but it's too late because the administration never responded when asked. So as of right now the only challenge we have going for us is figuring out a fundraiser idea. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. We're kind of looking for something that hasn't been done before, but it's okay if it has. We live in NC, the weather right now is a little chilly, but not too bad, it can take place as far away as April or even May if need be, we're out of school in the begining of June so whatever we do can't take place that late. So please, any and all ideas are appreciated!! (link)
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To raise money for our school we did a Flashback Dance. We played music from the 50's 60's 70's. You could choose 70's & 80's or 60's & 70's or whatever. Students could dress in styles of their favorite decade. We had people dressing up in anything from poodle skirts and rolled up jeans with leather jackets to the hippie look and even some disco style stuff. We featured music from each decade to let people show off their costumes (soundtrack from Grease, Saturday Night Fever, soft punk like The Clash, etc.). It was like a dance and a costume party. We charged for tickets at the door. We sold some refreshments (people get thirsty and hungry when they are dancing!), used the gym to hold the dance at to keep the expenses down. I used my sound equipment, mikes, PA system and cd collection and was dj . I wore outrageous costumes and got out on the floor to get things started....people loved the entertainment and joined right in. We made $500 in 3 hours. This was elementary school, so imagine what your school could do!
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that sounds like fun, I don't know if we'd be able to, but it still sounds like a lot of fun.
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