By Felicia Jin ABC^2, Make-A-Wish and Chinese clubs sold Valentine grams and treats Feb. 9-13, bringing the “sweets to sweeties” and funding for good causes. The gifts were purchased during the week and distributed to classes today. ABC^2 (Academically Better Children’s Club) held a bake sale for the first time in the Main Hall and will be donating their proceeds to the St. Jude’s Hospital. “It’s hard to say how much money we’re trying to raise because it’s our first time, but we’re hoping for a goal of around $300,” said ABC^2 President Brandie To. The club sold store-bought muffins in the main hall to raise money that will go towards helping children in the St. Jude Children’s Hospital. They also took orders for Valentine grams, …show more content…
“To prevent competition, we initially only allowed one club to sell during the week. This year, we made sure that the clubs talked to each other about selling similar items. As long as the officers of Chinese Club are okay with it, we would allow it,” explained ASB Club Commissioner Chris Ma. “The two other clubs talked to us about selling valentine grams at the same time; we decided that it was okay since Make-A-Wish’s teddy bears looked different from ours and ABC^2 is donating to charity,” revealed Chi- nese Club President Shian Hong. All three clubs allowed the option of sending the valentine grams anonymously. All grams are being delivered today during class. “I bought a rose for my friend anonymously because I want to surprise her,” said sophomore Jeffrey Hua, just one of the many anonymous senders. According to Shian, almost all customers send anonymously. While some students like to send anonymous gifts to their special someone, others buy valentine grams for friends just to show a little love. “I bought a rose for my friend because she told me she wanted one,” said senior Leann Nguyen. However, a slight drop in sales this year compared to previous years was noted and may be a possible effect of our country’s recent economic struggles, observed Shian. “Last year, we sold 50 grams. But I don’t think the number of sales exceeded that of last year’s,” said Shian on Chinese Club’s sales status. Even then, the Valentine gram sales succeeded in
Vivo can be given; children can save these up and buy things from our vivo shop like pens pencils chocolate etc. When they save a lot of vivo then can then buy more expensive item like iPods, mobile top-ups and a whole range of different things.
Purpose: To inform my audience that there are kids out there that need our help and to have the audience persuade to donating.
At St. Jude’s we don’t want you to feel as though you have to give money. Giving us some of your time to help us raise money or if you have a talent of entertaining kids and helping them forget about what they are going through. We are not all about money, we are about making a better life for everyone especially our youth. We lose children to diseases
Each year, students orchestrate THON, a Penn State student-led philanthropic organization that raises money for Four Diamonds and Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. Throughout the year, students coordinate fundraisers and a 46-hour dance marathon to cover costs that insurance companies will not cover and attain funding for pediatric cancer research. At Penn State, I intend to be a part of this phenomenal organization. Within THON, I plan to continue my leadership through becoming a committee member. Fundraising is an essential component in any kind philanthropic organization; therefore, participating in canning weekends, becoming a committee member, and raising money. All of the money raised through THON benefits Four Diamonds at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital for groundbreaking research in pediatric oncology and medical support for families battling this devastating disease. Over the past 40 years, THON has raised over $127 million dollars to find a cure for pediatric cancer, the leading cause of fatal disease in children, which will impact the lives of those dealing with the effects of cancer and improve the overall quality of life for the
St. Jude’s target for marketing fundraising is far larger than most charities. Their target; preschoolers, professionals, 8th graders and 80 year olds, television, radio, local drives, school drives, trike-a-thons, math-a-thons, local, county, state and national events. Some of the big ones that you may be familiar with; the “Dream Home Giveaway”, the “Thanks and Giving Campaign” and the radio-a-thon “Country Cares”. Because of last year’s St. Jude’s NFL event, 18% of American’s said they planned to support St. Jude’s “Thanks and Giving Campaign” during this past holiday season. No opportunity is turned away.
The Saint Jude Bike-a-thon was a fundraiser my high school’s JROTC program ran every year to raise money for Saint Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, a unique facility that primarily works to cure children with cancer. Unlike other hospitals, the majority of funding for St. Jude comes from generous donors. It costs $2 million to operate
Every year in October, Post 9528 focuses on breast cancer awareness. This project is spear-headed by Kathy Crosswhite, an auxiliary member who has survived breast cancer twice. They spend the month of October educating women on the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and on preventative care. They sell ribbons, auction off baskets, and this year are planning a dinner and ball. All proceeds are set aside in an account to help locals in their treatment and
I’m Kallie Sweere one of the 8th grade students from Detroit Lakes Middle School. On December 21st DLMS 8th graders got together with other social classes. We got in groups of three, my group was Abby Brininger, Porsha Hermanson and myself. Thanks to the Detroit Lakes Rotary Clubs we gave $25 to people in need. How this works is we loan $25 to someone who needs it and they will pay us back.
We need your help to continue these and other critical March of Dimes programs in 2015 so every Florida baby has a healthy beginning! Please consider your most generous gift and give by Thursday, December 31st at marchofdimes.org/florida or mail your gift to March of Dimes Palm Beach Division 2301 Centrepark West Dr., Suite 125, West Palm Beach, FL 33409. Please use enclosed envelope to send your donations. Together, we can end premature birth forever!
All money raised is donated to the Children’s Miracle Network, and more specifically Children’s of Alabama. UADM host $100 day in September each year as part of childhood cancer awareness month. This fundraiser is just one way that UADM is working to help sick kids have the opportunity to celebrate another birthday.
First, Chinese Americans preserve their ethnic identities through holidays. One of the biggest holidays is the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is different from the regular New Years in that it relies on the moon cycles instead of the western calendar, so it falls on different days each year. There is a lot of preparation that goes into the Chinese New Year. People start cleaning their houses and decorating them with spring couplets on the twentieth day of the twelfth moon. Spring couplets are short poems written on red scrolls of paper in black. A popular New Years tradition in the United States is the exchanging of red envelopes containing money, which are called hong-bao. Most families spend this holiday celebrating together because this holiday, above others, emphasizes family and family ties.
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In the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive red packets. These red packets are envelopes that are passed out during the Chinese New year’s celebrations from married couples to unmarried teenagers and children. Red packets almost always contain money, usually from a couple of dollars to several hundred. The amount of
When students are involved they get the nutrition and food they need along with the skill sets needed to become employed in the future. The help the children organization adds into this by using a donation program through their website. With the donations they purchase mass amounts of food to deliver to churches, senior citizen faculties, woman shelters, recovery programs, and more. Help the children delivers on average 1.7 million pounds of bulk food each month, making that 35 tons each work day.