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 Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:11 am
Every year the band does a fund raiser to to get money to better itself.
The BD's tell us the money goes to buying instruments, trips, or hiring
professionals to teach a certain section. They even offer us students
lots of.....strange...prizes.But do you actually waste your weekends and
precious after school hours to go out and bug people to buy your fund raiser goods?
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:32 am
If too few people in your band do the fundraisers, you could end up like my alma mater. To be allowed to participate in band, you had to sign a form promising to raise or pay several hundred dollars. If you didn't, you couldn't go on the band trip at the end of the year. It's far better if you just do a few fundraisers voluntarily. Once it's official, they can keep raising the price and that just sucks.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:13 am
we have to combine with our orchestra and choir to do fundraisers, since there arent enough people in the band....
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:11 am
Me personaly i dont do the funraisers..but for a reason..even though ive live where im at for 3 years..i still dont know any who lives near me..
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:23 am
Our school does those types of fundraisers, but ones for band are fun! Like pizza friday, every other week one of the school organization sells a ticket for a slice of pizza and a soda for $2. Band usually gets this 2-3 throughout the year. And then our annual spaggetti dinner we just had, they sell tickets for $6 and you get a spaggetti dinner. And then the threee bands play music (beginning, jazz, advanced). So its actually fun fundraising for band!
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:38 pm
z_hulagirl_z Our school does those types of fundraisers, but ones for band are fun! Like pizza friday, every other week one of the school organization sells a ticket for a slice of pizza and a soda for $2. Band usually gets this 2-3 throughout the year. And then our annual spaggetti dinner we just had, they sell tickets for $6 and you get a spaggetti dinner. And then the threee bands play music (beginning, jazz, advanced). So its actually fun fundraising for band! Wow!! your fundraisers are awesome!!! we have the boring kind, where you just sell stuff and get prizes, so I never do them... crying
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:29 pm
i normally try to, but the problem is that they give every music group the same fundraiser, so you go up to someone and they're like "i already bought from a chorus kid."
like wth, give us different fundraisers!
there's:
concert chorus
concert band
marching band [and outdoor guard]
indoor colorguard
urbane
show choir
it sucks. :[
but sometimes i just forget.
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:54 am
Same here, Leandra. The whole music department does it, though I kind of like the fundraiser, 'cause the stuff we sell is really yummy and we get money that we can use on any band trip up until the end of High School.
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:26 pm
I try to do the fundraisers, but I ususally end up just selling to my relatives that live closeby.
My band is going to Six Flags this year for a competition, so each band and chorus kid (I'm in both) has to raise 70-80 dollars to cover costs of busses and admission.
We sold cookie dough for our fundraiser, which was good because everyone heart s cookie dough! We also sold really expensive Silpada jewlery, which was okay because we made a lot of money off that one...
But, I don't see why we can't just pay for stuff instead of having to fundraise by buying stuff we don't really want.
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:19 pm
We go on a huge trip every other year, usually to perform in either Macy's, the Rose Parade, some prestigious concert hall, or overseas in some festival or whatever. For Instance, this coming season we're going to Ireland during St. Patrick's Day to perform in two parades and do a concert in St. Patrick's Cathedral. So, we have to do a crapload of fundraising. I raise anywhere from 450 to 750 dollars each fund raiser, there are three each year plus the Car-Wash-A-Thon. We don't get prizes, we just don't get to go to competitions or trips if we don't raise enough =. But most of the time, if you meet a certain goal, you get to skip band on a certain day to eat endless pizza, drink soft drinks, and play Guitar Hero, Rock Band, or DDR in the Percussion Room.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:54 pm
BUMP!!! domokun MY TOPICS SHALL NOT DIE!!!
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:22 pm
I usually do band fundraisers...if I'm free that day...but a lot of our fundraisers have requirement things...like you are required to go to at least 3 or something, depending on what kind of fundraiser it is...
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:15 pm
Our Band we sell every year fruit from Florida and that sells alot. eek The money gos to paying or band trips and for things we need for the band.Not much but it gos a longggggggggggg way whee
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:00 pm
We have the Steak Feed every year, and this year to get money for instruments(actually it's tonight) We are having a 24 Hour Band-A-Thon. I can't wait it's starts at 5, but I have tennis, so for me it starts at 6:30
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:18 am
Meark z_hulagirl_z Our school does those types of fundraisers, but ones for band are fun! Like pizza friday, every other week one of the school organization sells a ticket for a slice of pizza and a soda for $2. Band usually gets this 2-3 throughout the year. And then our annual spaggetti dinner we just had, they sell tickets for $6 and you get a spaggetti dinner. And then the threee bands play music (beginning, jazz, advanced). So its actually fun fundraising for band! Wow!! your fundraisers are awesome!!! we have the boring kind, where you just sell stuff and get prizes, so I never do them... crying I do the ones like yours, but this year we had this humonguous carnival called "Rock the House" where many high schools and middle schools would go to play at my school (a middle school) and we had so many booths there, like 40 booths. Nick Rail Music and Musician's Outlet had booths where they sold band stuff, we had so many things like raffles for an Xbox 360, and 3 guitars. It was the best fundraiser EVER!!! Only my school hosted it so all of the kids in the band had to work in a booth for 2hours. the Carnival was from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. It was awesome.
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