Jason Boehm-2/11/10-Getting Tools to City Schools
Today Miral, Ben, Ivo, Chase, Bryce and I met Dennis Kitchen in the library to discuss different was to fundraise for the organization. Dennis brought along a surprise guest which was none other than our very own Carin Cohen. She is very well known for her famous chocolate that she sells at bake sales. The theme of the meeting was fundraising. The one supply that the organization needs the most is binders. Sadly binders are the most expensive and we thought of a couple of ways to get some money to purchase these items. We first thought of the obvious, which is to hold a bake sale in front of the school. We wanted to do something different. Everyone really was orbiting around the idea of doing something like a “Pennies for Peace” drive. So we came up with the idea “Bucks for Binders”. This is going to be a competition, every homeroom for themselves. Every child in each class can bring in a few dollars and the homeroom that raises the most money will win a prize. The prize we still have to figure out, we would like it to be that the winners get no homework for that weekend. We all loved this idea including Dennis. We figure if every child brings in 10 dollars we can get up to 800 dollars and that will be more than enough to reach our goal for binders. Miral and Carin also felt like we should do a bake sale. Miral offered to make Rice-Crispy treats and knit and sell some scarfs which I think is great. Carin will make chocolate bars with the wrapper showing the Tools for City Schools logo and some information about the organization. We believe that we can make a good profit from all of these ideas. Dennis suggested that we should maybe record some of our meetings and make it into a iMovie. We can educate people about what we do and the organizations message. We can also use it in our teach-in. Ben and Bryce volunteered to video type. Ivo also volunteered to make some signs and posters to put up around the school. I look forward to next weeks visit and check out Dennis’s website. http://www.gettingtoolstocityschools.org/home