What's a Hot-Tub-A-Thon?

Starlet · #1 05-06-2002, 04:08 PM

So I posted this question in the proper forums for community service and fundraising, but no one really seems to know what this is! I'm really curious and want to know how chapters organized this event to raise money! Did anyone do this at their school because I know people have said they had?! Please put an end to my curiosity!

Tom Earp · #2 05-06-2002, 04:52 PM

Dang StarLet, I was the one who put this on! You went back a ways!

My Chapter of LXA started this 3 years ago for a Charity Event.

Get a hot tub donated and have it at a prominent place! Hopefully at your Chapter house if you have one!
Get notification to the Media, have a Known Charity, have when nice and cool so steam runs up in the air for pictures!

Take donations and list on a board near the tub so you can write peoples names and donations on it!

I dont know what we donated to the Mc D house this year, but the 2 years before, we donated $3,000 for a good cause!

Hope this helped!

Starlet · #3 05-06-2002, 05:21 PM

Okay, so that helps a bit, but can you just clarify something to me. So the way you raise money is you get pledges from people as to how long chapter members can actually sit in the hot tub, i.e. 5 bucks an hour??? Man, talk about being all wrinkly afterwards

Come on, who else has done this??? While we're at it, I've read a past post about someone doing a hop scotch-a-thon for 48 hours...all I have to say is wow! What other type of marathons have you done, i.e. ones that don't entail running but other ways you do something to raise money?

Tom Earp · #4 05-06-2002, 05:33 PM

Star, we did for 72 hrs. In shifts. Hell dont want to be a Plum that turns to a raisen! Yes I know a raisen comes from a grape! Plum bigger! HEHE!

We also had 1 Soroity and everyyear, we were asked for them to be the one selected!

Works both ways!!!!!

Gives both PR!

Peaches-n-Cream · #5 05-06-2002, 05:41 PM

We did a 48 hour hopscotch-a-thon, and I don't recommend it. It gets cold and people get tired.
One fraternity had a hot tub-a-thon. The way it worked was similar to what Tom described. They set up the hot tub near the union where everyone walked passed and basically they asked (begged) people who passed for money. Whenever one GLO would host a philanthropic project at my school, the rest would support it with a donation. Another option is to allow members of other groups to get into the hot tub for a price. You could also encourage professors to get in on the act.

Tom Earp · #6 10-20-2002, 12:00 AM

NO, It was not riskee'.

We have a hot-tub on the lawn of the House.

Each year we have a different Soroity join us so each gets PR!

Yes we are all clothed!

It runs for 72 hrs. and done in shifts or all will dehydrate to death. Si?

Best done when the steam comes off of the tub for effects!

But of course, wearing clothes in a hot tub requires the filters being cleaned more!

Feel free to ask any other Questions.

sigep653 · #7 10-25-2002, 01:49 PM

We've been doing tub-a-thon for a long time at the University of Utah, and it's been a great success. This last year, we got a hot tub donated, and we rented one as well. We got permission from the Student Union to set up on the Union Plaza (having brothers on the Union Board helps), and we set up in the most high-traffic area on campus. In the weeks/months leading up to the tub-a-thon, brothers collect donations from individuals and local businesses. Depending on the size of the donation, we'll put the logo of the business on our t-shirt, and display their banner at our house. We rotate brothers through the hot tub, at least 2 guys are in it at all times. We do this for either 12 or 24 hours, last year we did it for 12 hours. We get the local radio and TV stations to cover the event, and the student newspaper usually does a piece on it as well. We have guys collecting money from people as they go in and out of the Union, we sell hot dogs and t-shirts, too. Last year we raised money for Cystic Fibrosis, because one of our brothers has the disease. We raised about $3,500 during the entire week, I believe.

Sigma Phi Epsilon-"Virtue, Diligence, and Brotherly Love, the only three things that matter"

sigep653 · #8 10-25-2002, 01:50 PM

The hot tubs are set up so they can be heated with propane, so it makes them easier to set up and move.

Tom Earp · #9 10-25-2002, 10:17 PM

sigep653, it is much like ours, but we do for 72 hours on our lawn, a main traffic area.

Each year we have a different Soro with us so both can get some good PR!

Since it is at the house, we can plug it in.

We have done it for 4 years and funds go to the Ron MC D house in Joplin, so we get coverage from two cities TV areas.

I know our Brothers at R I did it after I suggested it and had a resounding success!

Anyway to raise money for charities and give the Greeks some Great PR!

It is done in the fall so when the newspapers take pix there is steam from the tub! Makes a hell of a pix!

sigmawannabe · #10 10-26-2002, 04:00 AM

The chapter of Alpha Chi Rho, at Utica College, has an Operation Deep Freeze. One week in the month of Feb. the brothers camp outside to raise money for a local youth that can not afford the cost to treat his illness. They have a pop-up tent that they stay in from Sun. to Sat. or if they raise enough money, which ever comes first.

KappaTarzan · #11 10-26-2002, 12:51 PM

oh man a week in teh cold? i'd rather sit in a hot tub all day