[20919] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Two questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Cashman)
Sat Apr 22 11:39:05 2000
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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:42:14 -0400
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From: "Derek J. Cashman" <djcashma@VCU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
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Alpha Delta Iota (VCU, Richmond, VA) is also currently planning on
raising money for nationals this year. As the newly-elected Treasurer
(sucker?), I plan to have at least two car washes this summer (maybe
three if there are enough brothers to support it). I also plan to do one
more car wash in the fall during our rush week, which can be combined as
a rush/service/fundraising event. We have had good luck with car washes
in the past, and the key seems to be to have a car wash and not charge
a specific fee for washing someone's car, but instead ask for a
donation. We have had some people donate as much as $10 or $20 for
washing their car! We also plan to do a yard sale sometime in october
as well to raise a lot of funds.
Something new that I am trying now is with online fundraising on our
website. There are several corporations online that offer affiliations
to individuals or groups with websites that link to their site. We are
currently teamed up with AltaVista.com with a link on our website so
that for anyone that performs a search through *our* altavista link
on our website, altavista donates 3 cents to the chapter! In one week of
doing this, we have already accumulated about $7 in our account! So this
is a really easy fundraiser that brothers can do without really thinking
about fundraising!
There are, of course, more online affiliations that you can sign up for.
We are also signed up with www.buy.com which sells computers,
electronics, books, video games, etc, so for every person that we refer
to their site that buys something, we get between 3-8% of the sale price
donated to the chapter!
Another online affiliation that I am planning to do in the fall is with
varsitybooks.com. This is an online bookstore that specializes in
college textbooks. They even have most of the colleges and universities
course listings right on their site too. So if everyone in your chapter
would buy books from varsitybooks.com by clicking-through your chapter's
website first, your chapter would get 3-5% of the sale price of those
textbooks! This is a perfect fundraiser for college students because:
a) we all spend an ungodly amount of money on textbooks
b) it is something that we NEED for class
c) so why not help the chapter out at the same time?
To see how ADI has integrated our existing fundraisers into our website
so far (we're still in the preliminary stages of planning), visit our
website:
http://krypton.isbdd.vcu.edu/apo/
(feel free to do a couple of searches on our altavista link, too,... ;-)
More information on online website affiliations can be obtained at:
http://www.linkshare.com/
Of course, the perfect fundraiser would be an online affiliation with
www.liquor.com, in which we would get 10% of the sale price, but a)
brothers in our chapter value our charter too much, and b) I really
don't want to give Lyndal Butler a heart attack,... (yes, liquor.com
actually does have an online affiliation, I am not joking! But I
don't recommend any chapter participating in that one, though,... ;-)
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, The Angel Between Light & Shadow wrote:
> > Second, I am considering doing a UMOC fundraiser in the fall. As far as i
> > know, it hasn't been done here before... at least not in a long while. I
> > was wondering if anyone had any stories of success and/or failure, along
> > with a few tips on running things. Thanks in advance for all your help!
>
> My opinion is that it would be in bad taste because of the political
> correctness-fear of our society today. Someone, in an attempt to be
> "ugly", might portray a particular society. The act itself can be
> considered bad-taste and/or hurtful or slanderist (sp?). It could be held
> as bad publicity for the organization as a whole.
I don't see a problem with ugly man. People participating in it would
agree to it, and as long as they agree to it, and it's done in good
taste, there shouldn't be a problem,...
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Derek J. Cashman (derek.cashman@vcu.edu)
Graduate Student; Medicinal Chemistry; MCV/VCU
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"A Drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a
publishable scientific paper."
