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Cario Bands Together For Kids
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Our first fundraiser of the year, will kick off in class in September. We would like your child to contact friends and relatives who cannot participate in our regular fundraisers (like pies, fruit, & flowers) and ask them to consider sponsoring your child in several community service projects to be conducted later in the year. These projects include a coat drive in early fall, a baby's supplies collection in February, and a gently used book drive next spring to benefit disadvantaged children in our area.
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As a sponsored organization, all of our band students agree to actively participate in four community service projects to help our local kids. In the fall, we kick off our service by participating in the Beach Sweep followed by collecting and donating clean, gently used coats, sweaters, hats, mittens, and sweatshirts for children and young teens. After Winter Break, we collect donations of baby supplies. New or gently-used children's books will be collected by our students at the end of the year. What a great way to make a hospital stay a little less boring by sharing a favorite book for a child to enjoy reading!
Our first fundraiser of the year will be Letters For Sponsorship. The letters for sponsorship will be personalized and envelopes will be addressed in class by the students. Your child has a form to fill out with names and addresses of potential sponsors. A copy of the letter has been sent home for you to see with an example of the type of personalization your child will want to include. Each student is asked to provide names and addresses on an Address form that will be sent home. Names and addresses should be for friends and family that would consider sponsoring your student for their participation in the community projects. If you can't find the form in the bottomless pit that they call a book bag, click here and you can print a replacement. The "Address Party" will be held during band class.
The Band Boosters will supply form letters with space for a personalized message, stamped envelopes, and, of course, refreshments!! What's a party without refreshments, anyway? The stamped, addressed letters will be collected at the end of each class and mailed at the end of the day. At the completion of the campaign, each participating child will be be provided with a list of their sponsors for hand-delivering or mailing thank-you notes. Receipts will be sent to all sponsors at the end of the year for tax purposes.
A sample form letter requesting sponsorship is available for your review. The letter includes a tear-off section for sponsors to complete with their name, address, and sponsored student and then mail back to the Cario Band Program with their donation. All donations are fully tax-deductible as the Cario Band Booster Club is a 501(c)(3) organization. The contribution total from all of our participating sponsors then goes into our general operating account. This account enables our band program to purchase music, instruments, and recording equipment -- all of those necessary items our band room needs to further our children's musical education.
We are also sending home a magazine packet. QSP sells the magazines for about the cost you can purchase the subscription elsewhere and we get about 40% of the sale for our band operating account. Magazine prizes will be $100 to the Top Seller Overall, $75 1st Place Overall, $50 for 2nd Place Overall, then for every 3 subscriptions sold, students' names will be entered into a drawing for (6) $25 cash prizes.
We used this approach last year and it was very successful. Although contributions will benefit the Cario Band program, the community will benefit from the drives we conduct; the students will be involved in worthwhile service projects; and sponsors can support our program as well as the community. All monies from this fundraiser will go directly into the band operating account.
Volunteers will be needed throughout the day to help with handing out form letters, making sure addresses are legible(!), handing out treats, and collecting letters and envelopes for each class. If you can spare an hour or two or six, or have any questions, contact fundraising@cariobands.org.
Thanks for your support of these fundraisers!
Excellence through Music!