[Arizona-students] Fundraiser?

[Allison Hilliker]

Hi everyone!

I wanna know what you guys think of this.

At convention, I suggested that AABS try a gift-wrapping fund raiser.  The 
suggestion seemed to go over well.  My question is, do we still wanna do 
that?

It won't make even a fraction of what we will with our candy sales, but it 
is a great public education tool.  It also costs us nothing to do, so 
whatever we make is our own.

MABS did this about two years ago.  I'm not positive that such a thing is 
national, but around the holidays, Barnes & Noble provides free gift 
wrapping to their customers.  The store provides the paper and supplies and 
people just come up and get what they need wrapped.  Barnes & Noble let's 
not for profit organizations come in and perform the gift wrapping.  The 
wrappers put out a jar for donations, and that's where the fund raising 
component comes into play.

What I like about it is that it is another fund raiser that gets blind 
people out their demonstrating our skills, and showing that we do normal 
things like wrap gifts.  And making money in the process makes it that much 
better <smile>.

Here's the thing, if we wanna do this, and we wanna good date, then we have 
to be calling and setting these things up now.  Many other orgs all want the 
same high traffic days so those days go quickly.

So guys, what do you think?  Do we wanna do this?  If not, that's fine, but 
it's important for us to decide that now.

I don't mind making calls to the stores and setting up dates myself, but any 
given location will need at least two people to work at it.  I would need to 
know who would be willing to work.

Anyway, think it over, and let's talk about it some on this list.  What does 
everyone think?

Best,
Allison

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