Ways to fundraise???

[Monorail]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for ways to fundraise money for our Colleges Tech Crew. We don't get allocated a budget, yet we are meant to tech all the concerts and productions etc. We're thinking of having a fundraising concert and we're wondering if you had any other ideas of what we could do.
Cheers,
Matt

[madmal64]

How much do you need to raise, and over what sort of time frame?
I will kick off with an idea!
How about a bikini bike wash?
Im sure you know some lovely ladies that would be happy to help out
Now that may get a few round here putting there hands in their pockets!

[Monorail]

How much do you need to raise, and over what sort of time frame?
I will kick off with an idea!
How about a bikini bike wash?
Im sure you know some lovely ladies that would be happy to help out
Now that may get a few round here putting there hands in their pockets!

bit out of the way for that. and most of our friends are only just 16. seems a bit wrong. how much were u thinking of paying.

As for how much we need to raise. As much as possible eh. We need to keep getting more and more stuff. I suppose as soon as possible we need about $1000 to buy two decent second hand laptops. But we also need some new lights, more wireless radio with headsets (walkie talkies). All sorts of cables are needed (RCA, S-Video, DMX, XLR etc etc) So yeah. Lots and lots of dosh.

[Romeo]

Hi guys,
I'm looking for ways to fundraise money for our Colleges Tech Crew...

Ever thought of approaching an organisation like HP or Dell? HP pumped over $200k into the Christchurch College of Computing (7th form IT school, totally OWNED!) back in 2000. They'd expect to put up some advertising around the place in return (they didn't at CCC for some reason?), but if you only need a couple of laptops then they could probably spare them.

Put together a really enthusiastic presentation and you might be lucky.

[madmal64]

how much were u thinking of paying.

Nope not me buddy! I said a few around here. But that dosent include me!
But Im sure there would be takers!

What ya prepared to do?
Manual labour?
Work all weekend?
Jobs like clearing sections, house moving, if you can get a team together can be a go.
Mate I suggest you get your team together and brain storm a bit. Im sure you tech,s can think of something.

[Monorail]

Ever thought of approaching an organisation like HP or Dell? HP pumped over $200k into the Christchurch College of Computing (7th form IT school, totally OWNED!) back in 2000. They'd expect to put up some advertising around the place in return (they didn't at CCC for some reason?), but if you only need a couple of laptops then they could probably spare them.

Put together a really enthusiastic presentation and you might be lucky.

didnt think of that eh. i mean it is somehting that we could do i guess. just thinking about how to go about it...

[Monorail]

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[Romeo]

didnt think of that eh. i mean it is somehting that we could do i guess. just thinking about how to go about it...

You'd probably have to go through the Principal eventually, so get your dudes together and book a meeting with him/her - you can't do this without management support. Lay out your case and see if they're willing to support the idea, sometimes they can't because they have contracts with other IT firms or governance (or maybe they just want you to work for it). I'm sure your principal would be behind the idea, unless they're some kind of "Don't want to be under HP's thumb!" nazi.

Mention that some corporate branding may be required in the form of the odd HP banner around the place and see if that would be cool. If they support it then flick HP an email or phone call about wanting a meeting between your group and them. They usually have offices in most main centres. In the email make sure you ask about whether they're able to supply some "Support for the XXXXX school Audio/Visual club". Don't go in asking for stuff, make it clear that you're students wanting to do something good - but you can't because you don't have any funding support. It's important to emphasize that the technology is for the greater good of the school and that you'd be overwhelmingly grateful for any solution they offer. Give them something in return for their investment, talk about starting up a mutually beneficial relationship or something.

Make sure all your communications are professionally written, get them proof read by one of the IT staff or something. Presentation is key!

Remember, fortune favors the brave - go for it!

120th post!

[yungatart]

$100 note raffles. Photocopy a $100 note and blank out the serial no. Make a 100 tickets and use a consecutive stamper to number them. Sell at $2.00 a pop. Note that this is an illegal raffle, but inform the cops of what you are doing anyway, they will turn a blind eye.
Good luck!

[Monorail]

$100 note raffles. Photocopy a $100 note and blank out the serial no. Make a 100 tickets and use a consecutive stamper to number them. Sell at $2.00 a pop. Note that this is an illegal raffle, but inform the cops of what you are doing anyway, they will turn a blind eye.
Good luck!

yea, we really cant do anything illegal eh as its for school. maybe a last ditch effort.

[yungatart]

yea, we really cant do anything illegal eh as its for school. maybe a last ditch effort.

Umm, I ran a raffle like this every week for a term to fundraise for the 1st X1 hockey team at the college my son attended...run it by the principal, I'm sure he will have no probs with it.
The way we ran it was for the team members to sell their tickets to family and friends rather than to the general public. Its an easy $100 profit.

[Paul in NZ]

I'll help support you.... I could lend you a projector for a movie evening or something in the hall?

Lunchtime dance - I could do a txt jukebox.... if you can supply a sound system to plug into??