Garibaldi Annex Home Learners Program

Funny fundraising.
We are part of a new program, and we need some stuff.
I am finding some of my gently used items to donate to the program, while I wrap my head around fundraising.
Our kids ask us for help, we ask others for help.
Sounds simple, but when finances are concerned it can become complicated.

I am hoping we can use this topic board to navigate some of the issues.
What do we need?
ie. bookshelves, books for home learning parents, legos…
Do we fundraise as a group or independently ?
ie. both
What is the first goal, what do we need most?
ie. ?
What else besides bulb sales, has been done?
What other ideas do we have?

Cheers

Mary-Ann Reply:
October 15th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

My kids would like to do something like a lemonade stand, hot chocolate stand or healthy snack stand. Maybe a first goal would to be raise a little money to cover things like childcare for parent meetings and to open a bank account. Other than that I think we need to get input from everyone to prioritize fundraising.

I think Shannon did the bulb fundraising.

seema Reply:
October 16th, 2009 at 11:33 am

I wish I could participate more in the parents’ meetings, but they always seem to be held during times when I am at work.

If anyone is amenable to having a meeting on Thursday or Friday after 4:00, or on the weekend, I would gladly offer the common room of our co-op as a site where we could meet (we’re about fourteen blocks from Garibaldi Annex).

I like the idea of a lemonade/healthy snack stand, too!

Best, Seema

4    jill pilon // Oct 19, 2009 at 7:59 am

Through Kali’s preschool we did a fundraiser selling stainles steel products i.e water bottles,sandwich containers, portable silverware etc.. just another idea to throw out there.

5    jacinda // Oct 19, 2009 at 8:53 am

I too have been imagining lemonbalm icetea stands…

Another time for meetings would work for me too.
Thanks for that suggestion Seema.

I am wondering if some kids and folks are interested in a
fermentation learning party.
I have good connections on this front and would love to rustle up
some interest from all these juicy home learners.

Anyone interested?

Let me know.

Best,
Jacinda