Dance Marathon

[PhiMuGirl07]

My Chapter really wants to hold A Dance Marathon in the Spring. I know the Philanthropy chair is meeting with someone who has a lot of experience with this but I want to get opinions of people from GC who have this kind of philanthropy as to how much money they were able to raise and how participants responded to it.

[PhiMuGirl07]

Okay nevermind I obviously didn't use the search tool because there are plenty of threads about this. Sorry

[PANTHERTEKE]

Originally Posted by PhiMuGirl07

Okay nevermind I obviously didn't use the search tool because there are plenty of threads about this. Sorry

Its ok :P

Here's the most recent/active thread: http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=89172

And to answer your question, it takes a few years to get DM started up well.

The way my campus does it is the following: you sign up and pay a $20 fee (registration started recently and ours is going to be held in the end of January 2009), then you either raise or pay out of pocket about $120 more in order to be a dancer (the money is due about a week or more before DM).

Committee members and Morale Captains (the people who dance each hour on stage and are in charge of the different groups) pay about $500 I think- but I'm not completely sure. Some chapters hold chapter-wide fundraisers to offset the costs of their dancers. And of course there's fundraising held throughout the year before.

My chapter has won DM for 2 years in a row now, and my school in total raised about $114,000+ this past March.

Hope that helps.

[PhiMuGirl07]

Thanks! I know that a lot of work goes into starting up a DM. I think we're going to try to get two fraternities to help us put it on because their philanthropy is CMN as well. Plus we don't want it to just be a Greek Thing we want to get the whole school and possibly community involved so we could raise more money for CMN!