Hi DJ! Well, what we did was called the quarter mile. The goal was to get a quarter of a mile of quarters lined up end to end. I think this ends up being somewhere around $4000. We would begin collecting money about a month beforehand. We would basically go door to door asking for donations. It has been going on for so long that the people are generally not surprised to see us and are pretty generous. We also send letters to busineses which will generally donate some money also. We then get all of this money changed into Quarters. We spend a whole day on the main street trough the town lining up these quarters which then gets us more donations because people would stop to see what we were doing and generally donate a little something. We would also get some donations from our family members and other Greek and non-Greek organizations on campus.
I am an alum now, so I'm no longer doing all of this, but I recently got a newsletter from my chapter and they are going to add a carnival to raise money and the alums are sending donations this year also. I'll have to let you know how this works out for them. I believe the carnival is this coming Sunday and the Quarter Mile is during the following week.
Oh, yeah...and with the door to door donations we generally take out an ad in the local paper to advertise this is coming up so people know when to expect us and some people just send us money. The community was very generous
I hope that was a little bit helpful for you. If I can come up with any other ideas, I'll let you know. Good luck with the philanthropy.
Xi love,
Mindy
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