Fundraising News From Around the World

Cape Coral, FL: Lab Fest animal rescue fundraiser features obstacle course, peanut butter eating and Frisbee toss contests; Bismarck, ND: Coldwater Creek sponsors "Try It On for the Cure" initiative; the company donated $1 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for every woman who entered the dressing room and tried on any apparel; Sioux City, IA: RISE ministries plans trap-shoot fundraiser to support operations; Mandan, ND: Chevrolet dealership holds customer and military appreciation fundraiser; sales of refreshments and donations collected provided to Military Emergency Relief Fund; Los Angeles, CA: Celebrity pinball tournament & arcade game show doubles as autism fundraiser; Loveland, CO: Bank offers document shredding and yard sale as fundraiser for the American Cancer Society; Kilgore, TX: Cheerleaders raise funds with powder-puff football game; Salt Lake City, UT: Medical center launches "Pennies by the Inch" fundraiser to help provide health care for sick children; Wilkes University, PA: Students for Environmental Sustainability sponsors earth friendly fundraiser with on-line shopping for dorm and home; Menasha, WI: Concrete dogs and fire hydrants displayed to raise funds for startup of police department K-9 unit; Wilmington, DE: Fitness training facility hosts Boot Camp fundraising event to raise funds for camp serving children with diabetes; Memphis, TN: Children’s center holds ‘Dancing with the Docs’ fundraiser to support camp for children with cardiac-related diagnoses; San Antonio, TX: Pet assistance league produces fundraising calendar in what are called tasteful “faux nude” poses; Iowa City, IA: U of I Dance Marathoners challenge ISU Dance Marathoners to raise funds for children's hospital; and Toronto, CA: Days Inn donates $1 for room stays and encourages guest donations during week-long fundraiser for the Childhood Cancer Fundraiser.

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Do-It-Yourself Fundraiser Of The Month

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, one basketball team went to the local mall every weekend. They had arranged with the mall management company for an area to have a Coat Check. Stores in the mall donated the temporary use of racks to hang the coats on and a secured area for people to leave packages, etc. They handed out a "coat check" ticket and shoppers left their coats, mittens, etc with them while they shopped. The asked for a minimum donation of $1 for the service. They were able to raise thousands of dollars with very little upfront cost. The only thing they had to pay for were rolls of tickets that you can buy at any office supply store, and they even got a parent to donate that. It was a very easy and profitable fund raiser that the kids had to work to get the money for their program.

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Non-Profit In The Spotlight

The journey from adolescence to adulthood has never been easy. In every generation and in every place, teenagers have struggled to come to grips with their place in the world. They want to know if there is meaning to life in general and if their own lives are important. Among our nation's youth are some 300,000 teenagers whose parents and guardians have committed their lives to service with our armed forces.  These students are scattered among overseas bases and installations in the U.S.  The problems and struggles of military teens are similar to those of the typical teenager, but intensified because of their context. Military installations, even in the United States, are often isolated. Military teens are frequently uprooted from familiar settings and replanted in a foreign country with language, culture and customs they don't understand. Further, the heightened pace of military operations in the post-Cold War and post 9/11 environment has meant more and more absences from the home of the service member, creating temporary single parent homes for the majority of military families for at least a third of any given year.  While spiritual support becomes a more readily perceived need in this stressful environment, it is estimated that 2% or less of the military teen population has any exposure to Christian influences within any given week. At Military Community Youth Ministries, we believe that there is a great need to reach these young people, to build meaningful, no-strings-attached relationships with them and to communicate the love of Jesus Christ in understandable terms.

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This Month In History

Henry Ford's Model T went on sale for the first time (10/1/1908); President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation designating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day (10/3/1863); Frank Robinson was hired as baseball's first African American major league manager (10/3/1974); The first full-length feature film using spoken dialogue opened in New York (10/6/1927); Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri d'Aquino) was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years imprisonment and fined $10,000 for treason (10/6/1949); The Great Fire of Chicago broke out (10/8/1871); World War I spy Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad (10/15/1917); Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded (10/16/1793); The first birth control clinic in America was opened (10/16/1916); The Million Man March took place in Washington, D.C. (10/16/1995); "Black Monday" occurred on Wall Street with the largest one-day drop in stock market history (10/19/1987); Chicago gangster "Scarface" Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in jail for federal income tax evasion (10/24/1931); Shoot-out occurred at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona between the Clanton and Earp families (10/26/1881); Patriot Act signed into law (10/26/2001); The New York City subway began operating (10/27/1904); The Statue of Liberty was dedicated (10/28/1886); The War of the Worlds radio broadcast panicked millions of Americans (10/30/1938); Mount Rushmore National Memorial was completed after 14 years of work (10/31/1941); Stock market crashed (10/29/1929).
 

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