Fundraisers Ahoy!
Our fundraising is going swimmingly! Great job everyone!
Our team is currently at
$2,131.02 and ranked 6th. Springfield Police Department is JUST ahead of us in 5th at
$2,220.39. If you have any offline donations to enter, please get them in so they will show up on our total!
Please welcome
Elaine to the team! Her son might also join us as well!
Please also welcome my cousin
Andrea to our team! She raised $125.00 just by sending out emails via her online homepage
on her first day!*****
The
Krispy Kreme fundraiser went as well as could be expected for a record-setting HOT day. We made $160 from the May Bake Sale and paid $184.50 for the 38 dozen we bought. (I fronted the extra and gas money.) We were supposed to sell them at $7, 8, and 9 but I'd lost the paper and sold them at $6, 7, &8 a dozen. Even still, we should have made $259.00- a profit of $74.50. Minus a dropped dozen, a dozen not picked up, and selling the rest at cost or giving them away that Monday, we made $17.50. Yikes.
Definitely a learning experience. We'd gotten bumped from a Saturday to a Sunday, which also hurt, and had to compete with the Register Guard guy
literally snagging people away from our table to sign up for their drawing and spiel. Very frustrating. If I had to do it over again, I think I would have insisted on the Saturday and made sure we didn't have any other out-front competition. Oh- and double checked the weather forecast beforehand ;)
Dawn, I can't thank you enough for being out there and doing this with me! It was hot and I really, Really appreciated your company!!!
Many of the dozens were also mismarked, and so we weren't charging what we should have for them. I think I would also suggest, to anyone venturing on a Krispy Kreme fundraiser in the future, buying a HECK of a lot more original glazed than anything! The mixed fancies did NOT go well, nor did the chocolate frosted cake doughnuts. The glazed raised were really the big sellers.
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The
Bake Sale yesterday went well. We made $101.00! Huge thanks to
Leila, Cathy, Tamara, Emily, and Sherri for helping bake! It was just too hot- I hope no one minded the chocolate-covered strawberries or whacky iced AngelFood Cake I brought!
Leila's cookies were fabulous- I'm not sure which things everyone else brought but I know these were especially yummy!
I split donations between team members, trying to make sure everyone is acknowledged in fundage for their contribution to the team. Even if you're just being supportive and getting the word out there, you're doing a lot to help!!
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The
bracelets Cheryl ordered for our team came in today! 1 package was incorrect, so she's going to try and get it replaced, but otherwise we're good and ready to go. We're selling them for $2 apiece at reception or at my desk. We'll sell as many as we can at $2 each, and sell the rest for $1 each at Relay. We have a dark pink bracelet that says: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Friends, or a light pink that says: Hope, Faith, Love. Hopefully a lot of coworkers will get into it and we'll be seeing people sport them all across campus. Email to come shortly. Thank you so much
Cheryl!****
The Breadmaker is still going in full swing! It's still going every Friday, flavor available on the intranet Eugene Daily News as updated by Emily if you are interested. I'm experimenting with new and interesting flavors such as Sundried Tomato & Basil and Garlic Cheese Focaccia. So far it's going really well! We've had $10 bids the past couple of weeks- fabulous!
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The Raffles we have going on end this weekend, and we'll draw for the parking spots and the prizes when we get back on Wednesday. Very excited!
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Next up for fundraising: Bracelets, Papa's Pizza day, Media Sale, July Bake Sale, Baby Picture contest, Caffiends Day, and possibly a potluck using Suzanne's idea of a recipe sale? More coming soon! Any feedback or ideas are welcomed as always!
Brandy//Team Coordinator
Walk Times & Update
Sent email today to Eugene AllUsers (recap for those not on our email list)
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Walkers Wanted (needed) at the Relay for Life Event, July 28th-29th for the following times: Friday:12-6 pm, 8-9pm, 11-12am
Saturday: 12am-6am
- Do you have ONE hour to spare to fill in any of those times, or to backup any existing walk-times, or man our tent?
- Are you available to help set-up from 11-12pm on Friday, tear-down 12-1 pm on Saturday, or assist in making our team’s flag before the event?
Please contact Brandy- we’ve less than a month left to get ready for this big event!
<>TEAM UPDATE: <>Raffles are ending NEXT FRIDAY! Last chance to buy tickets for prizes or a parking spot are coming up! Bake sale is scheduled for next Wednesday- posters soon to come!
<>Candy sales are being discontinued in favor of other fundraisers. The 20 or so who “took now and were going to pay later,” please drop your cash into the penny jars, which are still available in all building lunchrooms, or route anonymously if need be, via intra-office mail attn: Brandy Collins. I still have faith in my coworkers’ integrity! J If you need your fix and want to support a good cause, please see the Reception desk in Bldg E, or Kyia in purchasing in Bldg J. Our team is currently in 7th place. We have the Curbing Cancer fundraiser on THURSDAY for any who want to participate- give me an email so we can coordinate. We also have our Krispy Kreme bake sale this SUNDAY at the Delta Oaks Wal*Mart, and other fundraisers coming up. We’re still in it and we still have a chance to come out #1 in the Eugene/Springfield area!!!!!!
<>We’ll be hosting a media sale mid-July. If you have books, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs, or other media you would like to donate, just drop it by my desk in Bldg E, 3rd floor accounting or call me at x50179 and I’ll come pick it up! We’ll also be having a baby picture matching contest. I need photos in by June 30th, if you are able to submit one, so I can get everything put together. I’ll take a copy and give you your original.
More details and future activities coming soon!
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Yesterday's meeting was a blast! Ginger, Peter, Leila, Dawn, Suzanne, Cheryl and I met for lunch in bldg E and discussed fundraisers.
We decided the candy sales were over. We made back what it took to buy the candy, but the candy theft is, yes, starting to become an issue. I think if I were to do that again, I would limit it to a month at only manned areas. Kyia's desk seemed to be prime candy-selling real estate :)
I put the remainder at her desk and at reception. Once it's out, we'll be finished with that for the year.
We also discussed walk times, and using our open slots as advertising for more team members and walkers. Ideally we'd have 2 people signed up for walk times as a backup and company. So don't be offended if I've advertised your reserved walking time as "open." We can reshuffle closer to the date if we need to, and I'll be urging new signups toward completely empty time slots if at all possible. For right now, the walk times are being tracked on our yahoogroups calendar. It's not as bleak as it seems, many of our team members are waiting until the very last minute to see which times are still needed, to sign up for their walking time.
Welcome Heather L to our team! I don't have her email, so hopefully she'll be in touch soon and get signed up for our email list so we can keep in touch. I don't have Andrea H's email address yet either.
Cheryl L found a site that sells pink rubber bracelets for $1 each in packs of 10, and if you order 1 pack they give you 1 free!. She's ordered 3 packs, each a different design. I'll pay her back out of the Krispy Kreme money on Monday. We'll be selling them for $2 each prior to the event. Unfortunately Cheryl might not be able to walk with us, as her dept may have to travel on the weekend of hte 28th. We're so lucky to still have her on our team though! Thanks so much for staying Cheryl! :)
In our meeting, we also discussed NOT pricing items at the bake sale. I priced them really low, and people seemed to donate more when they didn't have a set price per item. At the bake sale on Wednesday, we won't be pricing items, we're going to let people donate as much as they can or want to and see if it turns out any better than May's $170 bake sale. The bake sale that Debbie had put together brought in more than $300. I'm hoping for the best!
Dawn taunted us with tales and dreams of Bailey's Irish Cream Cheesecake at the meeting.
Leila suggested middle of the week rather than on a weekend, so the food has a chance to sell for half price second day or something, or beginning of the week when everyone's grump and has forgotten to bring their donation or money to buy. Great thinking! So we're going to try this bake sale on a Wednesday with plenty of warning, to see how it goes.
Dawn mentioned using a groan stick (one of those plastic tuby thingies that groans when you turn it over) for our baton. That sounds like an awesome idea! She thinks she may have one in her Halloween box. Any ideas for decorations? Streamers? Stickers? A toilet seat?
Cathy E helped me compose a letter to local businesses in regard to the Banner Sponsorship. It's $250 to sponsor a banner, it's tax deductable, and thousands of people will see it- what business wouldn't want their name out there for such a cheap price?!
If anyone would like to split the area, or split the phone book, all I really need are envelopes addressed and I can get these letters mailed off. Dawn suggested a web search that finds all businesses in a certain radius. I haven't located that site yet, does anyone know about this? I can't find it on YahooMaps or Google...
Suzanne suggested we ask The Keg if they'd like to sponsor this, or even hit them up for a Keg day like we did Baja Fresh. I'm happy to call- but is anyone on personal terms with the staff that would prefer to handle this?
Suzanne also suggested Mongolian Grill, Quizno's, McDonald's, Starbucks, and Hertz. Specifically, asking Hertz if they'd be willing to ask people if they wanted to make a donation at time of rental. Great idea!!! I'll look into those asap and see what kind of giving programs they're open to or have set up.
I have a sheet of Avery tattoo stickers that I got from Cash King. Dawn suggested maybe doing those and selling them at the event. We could do anything from (tasteful) pictures, Relay symbols, to "My Reason for walking is ... (my mom, uncle, grandpa, self, cat...whatever :) ) Do you have any ideas for good tattoo sticker sayings or pictures?
We're also going to try for another bake sale and a Media Sale in July- dates to be determined. Plus the baby-picture matching thing, the prize is CASH- I can see that being a big draw :).
Dawn was wondering if the Luminaria sales counted towards our team totals. Just got an email back from Tinker:
The answer is yes and no :-) They do count towards your total team fundraising-used to determine fundraising awards, site selection for next year, etc. They do not count towards the incentive prizes-in the back of the booklets. Luminaria money is tracked/recorded separately.
Ginger is in charge of the Luminaria sales on our team. I still have some if any of you are also interested in helping Ginger sell, or would like to purchase one (or five) yourself!
A lot going on- we are absolutely still in this! I'm so excited about the things we have set up for July!!
Brandy//Team Coordinator
Parking Spot Raffle!
Well, we were knocked out of our 5th ranking spot, but not for long!
Our team is up to $1,299.00 and climbing. We have donations that have not yet been taken in or entered in our offline totals.
A $5k goal sounds crazy, but yknow? I think we can make it!
The raffle is still going strong. We've sold a LOT of tickets. No, I'm not going to count them all, but it's well over 50. That's awesome! Used some of that money, and some of the initial candy sales money from
Cheryl to buy more candy boxes and set them up throughout campus. (Will replace Cheryl's total gain on Friday's pull, and our total should be even higher!)
Baja Fresh night went very well. Salomon will have our totals ready tomorrow morning. I'm so excited to see how we did!
Delta Oaks Walmart is set and ready to go to host our Krispy Kreme fundraiser- but Saturday 6/24 was taken. Our option in June was to go for 6/25 so I grabbed it. Cheryl and others
please let me know if you are still able to help out on that day. I'll drive up to Portland on 6/24 to pick up our donuts.
Parking Lot Raffle starts today. I have the approval from Gordon, the paperwork in to Facilities, and I'm distributing the fliers today. There's nothing you need to do except maybe participate and talk it up amongst coworkers! I'm going to spend my email this week giving the company an update on our progress, going back over all events going on, and trying to recruit more team members.
In the meantime, I am sad to say my uncle Larry passed away this last Saturday at noon from cancer. His obituary was in the paper yesterday. I'm coordinating a Papa's pizza benefit, proceeds to go toward a food/shelter fund he had set up and had spent a lot of time working on with his church. If you're interested, I've uploaded a file to our YahooGroups
here:
http://f2.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QEd_RBYGFvURX0MRPG0hr_4P3wEeJN8zB-agOFddtS6-CNU56Ti_PBcKR7A0VXRfgU-5jzhpkbf7YgrgkIhTsA/larry.pdfI didn't get any response on the idea of a VHS-tape sale in July? What do you think about setting this up, like the bake sale, in the lobby of E?
Also, welcome
Kaitlyn Hastings, Kyia's daughter to our team!
Hopefully more good news tomorrow.
Take care and enjoy the liquid sunshine!
Brandy//Team Disorganizer *LOL*
