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Some schools
have done the Jump Rope for Your Heart with the American Heart
Association and raised as much as $87,000. Other have done the
Relay 4 Life with the American Cancer Society and raised $70,000 or
more. Those schools sent large checks to these organizations
that raised $Millions and the kids who did all the work got
T-shirts.
Granted the kids
learned some valuable lessons but imagine how valuable it would be
to have them raising money to help them grow up drug free!
We are
looking for schools to stage a Relay 4 Us where your students do the
same work and collect pledges and donations for every lap their team
runs. When all is said and done they will be able to raise
$thousands that
they get to use on their campus. The only thing we ask is that you
pay for the T-shirts.
What is
the Relay 4 Us?
The Relay is run by
teams of students and supporters for 12 to 18 hours (many
communities have a curfew that make a 24 hour relay more of a
challenge).
Tell Us
About the Teams?
- We can provide a
different color T-shirt for up to 48 teams. Each team should
have 10 to 15 runner so that no one needs to run more than 30
minutes at a time.
- Teams can be from
each classroom (this works especially well for elementary school
events).
- Teams can
represent each of the schools athletic squads, clubs or
organizations.
- You can field a
team of faculty memebers too.
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Click here to find out about T-shirts
What About
Raising Money?
Click Here
What
About Volunteers?
The more teams and the more runners
you will have the more volunteers you will need to keep things going
smoothly. Volunteers should be:
- Parents
- Faculty members
- Student who choose not to run
Volunteers will be needed for the
following:
- Registration
- Counting laps for each team
(This will be a little easier because each team will have a
different color shirt.)
- Crowd control
- Feeding the runners and
volunteers
How Do We
Feed All the Runners and Volunteers?
If you have only 10 teams of just 10
runner there will be over 100 people to feed. But the good news it
that you should be able to do that for free or at best a minimal
cost.
Runners need protein and
carbohydrates and kids prefer fun food. Fortunately, these can work
together well.
To help keep your cost down ask
stores and restuarants to donate the food and most will be willing
to do so. When they make a donation of a case of hot dogs, 100
Happy Meals or anything else they get credit for having donated at
the retail price but they only paid the wholesale price for whatever
they donate. The cost to them is miminimal and the benefit is very
large indeed. Everyone will know who donated to your cause and
people will remember that the next time they shop.
Food Suggestions:
- Pizza: DUH! Most Pizza
restaurants will donate 5 pizzas for an event like this. They
also tend to give a great price on more pizzas if you need
them. You may need to go to several to get enough or on this
one you may need to go to your treasurer.
- Pasta: DUH again! Runners need
carbs and pasta is a great way to fill up at a low cost.
- Hot dogs and hamburgers: Runners
need protein and fat too and this is a quick and fun way to
provide them. The more runners you have the more parents you
will have to ask to put their gas grill in the back of the SUV
so they can do the cooking.
- Hero/subs/hoagies/grinders: Ask
you local Subway, Blimpie or other sandwich shop for their
support. For a couple of 6ft sandwiches you can put their logo
on the shirts.
- Snack foods. Kids need more
calories than you might expect and when they are running them
off in the relay they will need even more.
- Ask every supermarket in your
area for a gift card and you will be able to use them to
purchase food and water.
We are not talking about fine dining
here. We are talking about kids having a good time in an open
field.
Some caution on the food. Be sure
to check if anyone has any food allergies.
Check if there are runners that
for religious reasons can't eat certain foods.
Check to see if any of your
runners are vegetarians.
What Will
It Cost?
The main cost will be for T-shirts
and that is all you will pay us for. Additional costs you may incur
will be paid from the money collected. We ask $10.00/T-shirt which
includes printing the back in one color with whatever you choose.
The back can have:
- Your school's name and event date
- Your motto or slogan
- Your sponsor's logos
Some of the additional costs you may
incur are:
- Insurance: since this is a
school event on school property your school's insurance probably
already covers it
- Food: feeding hundreds of
runners and volunteers would be a lot if you took them to a
restuarant but since this is a fundraising event you can
minimize the cost with donated food
- Batons: $0 We will provide as
many batons as you need, one for each team
What Do We
Do With the Money?
The money you raise it your money and
you can use it at you see fit. You can have a meeting with the
principal, faculty and student representatives to decide. Some of
the ways you can use the money include:
- Pay for new equipment for teams,
clubs and campus organizations
- Pay for needed repairs on campus
- Pay for new books at the school
library
- Pay for a schoolwide field trip
- Donate it to an off campus
charity that is special to the students
- Donate it to that American Heart
Association or American Cancer Society
Awards?
We can help supply you with low cost
medals, certificates and palques.
Some of the awards you can give
include:
- Pins for each participant
($1.00each)
- Medals for each participant
($3.00 each)
- Certificates or Plaques for the
runner and team with the greatest distances and money collected
- Certificates of Plaques for
runners and teams with the best spirit or costumes
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