Do-It-Yourself Fundraiser Of The Month

Bakeless Bake Sale: Send this letter to your members:  You are invited to NOT bake a cake, pie, cookies, or brownies.  You do NOT have to find the recipe.  You do NOT have to shop for the ingredients.  You do NOT have to mix.  You do NOT have to cook.   You do NOT have to cut.  You do NOT have to wrap.  You do NOT have to wash dishes.  You do NOT have to clean up your kitchen.  You do NOT have to deliver the baked product.  You do NOT have to stand in the heat/cold/rain to sell the baked product. You can write a check for $10.00  to "name of your organization" and stay home and enjoy doing something yourself or with your family!  

   Hands On Memphis: Manages and leads hands-on an average of 20-30 projects a month that impact the lives of people in need in the community. Projects take place after work hours, on the weekends, or during the lunch hour, and include such things as: reading to children at St. Jude Children’s Hospital; walking dogs for the humane society; serving meals to the homeless; cleanup of a historic cemetery; putting on birthday parties for youth at an emergency runaway shelter; upkeep of nature center trails; preparation & serving meals for persons and families living with HIV & AIDS; and assisting with arts & crafts for senior citizens.

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Fundraiser News Briefs 

Rockport, ME: Students pick up roadside trash to benefit Gulf Area Relief; New London, IA: Tractor ride benefits National Guard battalion deployed in Iraq; Greenwood, SC: Firefighters hold flag football games to raise money for the American Red Cross’ Local Disaster Relief Fund; Grand Rapids, MI: Community Action House raises funds with appraisal fees at antique fair; Lakeville, IN: Elementary school holds sixth annual jog-a-thon to fund school needs; Allentown, PA: Juvenile offenders who are on probation and doing community service stack and chop firewood to be sold to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina; Flint, MI: Goodwill Auxiliary holds annual doll sale; Florida: More than 1,300 Florida restaurant locations take part in Dine for America to raise money for Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund; Standard, CA: Rotary Club fundraiser nets personal dictionaries for all county 3rd graders; Saco, ME: Maine corporate treadmill marathon fundraiser to encourage people to lose weight and become more active; Hingham, MA: Library sells historical prints to support operations; Mt. Airy, MD: Audubon Chapter holds fall birdseed sale fundraiser; Aptos, CA: Foundation holds fireworks display to benefit school classrooms and youth activities; Swayzee, IN: VFD delivers pizza on fire trucks to raise funds for operations; Gainesville, GA: Residents hold Walk to Baghdad fundraiser to raise money for local soldiers serving in Iraq; Holmen, WI: Middle school wrestlers shave heads to raise funds for badly burned teammate.

Interesting or Fun Facts

It all started back in the late 1800's at the Battle Creek Sanatorium — a combination hospital and health spa for the elite and famous where Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was chief physician. Dr. John Kellogg and his brother, W.K. Kellogg wanted to offer something different from the nutritious yet tasteless bread on the sanatorium menu. They began experimenting by running boiled wheat through rollers in search of an alternative. When they were called away from their experiments and had to leave the cooked wheat exposed to the air for a day, the brothers decided to run the wheat through the rollers, despite the fact that it was no longer fresh. Instead of a single, large sheet of wheat that they had been producing, this time the rollers produced a flake for each wheat berry. When baked, they became a light and crisp flake. This flake, similar to breakfast cereal as we know it today, was first formed in 1894. [Source: Kellogg Canada Inc.]

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