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High School Breast Cancer Awareness Club
I have a club at school that I am president of & this is my junior year in highschool, its the Breast Cancer Awareness Club, I would like to know of any ideas the school can do to raise money and awareness without the actual school having to raise the money because we cant do that, also any ideas for the shirts? Guys and girls go to the school and out school mascot is an eagle, thank you in advance!
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Have you tried going to National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.? Their website has a "fundraising" link where you can fill out some information and they will mail you information and materials regarding fundraising. They may... "expect" some of your earned funds to come to their company. This may or may not be ok with you. If they do not "require" you send them the funds then you could do with the money whatever it is that your group does with the money... but either way, it might be a nice place to get some information and ideas.
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There is also a website that helps give fundraising ideas...
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I was involved with a "feed the children" thing last year and I just on a whim decided to make some off the wall phone calls. I didnt expect anyone to get back to me. I was kind of just having fun with the planning. Believe it or not, the local news paper picked up on it and free of charge put a little article in the paper advertising it, the fire department showed up in conjunction with our "feed the children" to pass out fire safety things like pencils, stickers, erasers and such to the kids who showed up and let the kids look around the fire trucks... and our mayor even made an appearance to show his support!!!! Call famous people. I don't necessarily mean George Clooney but perhaps local celebrities, government people, public service people... or even try to contact singers or actors!! You just never know who might see your request for "help" with your fundraiser. Granted Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a popular tv show but they get famous singers and actors to help them. Its a long shot but... this is BREAST CANCER and EVERYONE is affected by this.
My last suggestion is to discuss with the principal allowing occasional "behavior" that is not otherwise permitted. For example, I was the organizer for charity events when I worked for a privately owned pharmacy. Our dress code was scrubs. With the help of the March of Dimes organization (they help educate women on the ins and outs of conceiving and carrying healthy babies to term) we began doing a "blue jeans for babies" day. The first monday of the month (our busiest day of the month) we were allowed to wear blue jeans that day to work. BUT if we wore blue jeans, we had to pay $5. The customers caught on that everyone was wearing blue jeans and asked about it. THEY contributed on those days as well.
I don't know how much help this is but hopefully it at least gets some creative juices flowing.
Good luck with this and good for you to be involved with something so remarkably good.
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