Fundraising+Ideas

We'd love to hear any ideas you have for fundraisers! Please submit them on the Discussion Page and we will add them to the list. Thanks! **MARDI GRAS or St. Patty's Spring Gala:** A silent auction, to be held offsite (this means a cocktail hour!). Silent auctions have been very successful in the past, but they require people who are willing to solicit great auctionable items. Can you all start trying to come up with some great ideas? February/March 2-013 will be here before you know it!

**SPRING FUN RUN** This is still in the very early planning stages, but we think it could be a great healthy and fun outdoor fundraiser. Kids could get sponsored for how many laps they run around the athletic fields. Plus there can be other fun outdoor activities. Someone--please volunteer to chair! Just an idea to consider and perhaps develop? Gail and I were brainstorming and came up with an idea - perhaps for Easter, perhaps for Christmas next year. We thought we ask for volunteers to make cookies, and then mix and match batches like cookie exchanges do (so each volunteer would make 6 dozen or so of different cookies). We could take orders and everyone who ordered them would get a variety of cookies to use for their holiday. We could ask local businesses to take orders (leave postcard forms and the business could collect them in an envelope) and also have a form online for orders. We thought it would be really popular to also deliver these cookie batches.
 * PTO Cookie Crusaders**

Volunteer needs:
Coordinating would require volunteers for baking, volunteers to mix and package the batches, volunteers to deliver.

Material needs:
We'd need to have some sort of pretty packaging for the batches.

Donations:
Cookies themselves (homemade) from the bakers.

What else?
It might be nice to also coordinate this with sending cookies to military abroad. Perhaps this can tie in with a school academy?

Terry Turner