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The way we raise the majority of our philanthropy money is that we have a really big soccer tournament in the spring for all the fraternities on our campus. Each frat is charged an entrance fee of around $200 I think. May be more, may be less. Then we rent two soccer fields for the day and have a soccer tournament where every frat plays the first round and then only the winners go on to round two and only the winners of that go onto round three. We also provide incentives for the frats to participate such as providing whoever they say are their team captains with t-shirts that say Row Cup and giving everyone from the winning frat a t-shirt and trophy. We also rent a location out and have a big post party that night. All in all, it raises about 2500 bucks for RMH.
In the fall, we have two events, the first is a fall carnival which we set up in our lawn where we have refreshments and booths like face painting, sand dig, cake walks, stuff like that where we invite the RMH kids to come to. This year around 30 kids came.
Also, we have a Holiday Toy Drive. We open it up to the entire school to donate toys and then we pair up witha frat and have a "toy wrapping party." We keep half the toys and donate them to RMH and then the frat keeps half the toys to donate to their philanthropy.
The toy drive is probably the easiest to get together, but I hope the other ideas help too!
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