[Arizona-students] Fundraiser?

[Tony Sohl]

Hi Allison, I think i'ts a good idea!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison Hilliker" <allison.hilliker at asu.edu>
To: "AABS List" <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:16 PM
Subject: [Arizona-students] Fundraiser?


> 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
>
> "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize
the
> strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
> --Toni Morrison--
>
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