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 Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:42 pm
With the bought of economic woes in schools everywhere, performing arts and sports are usually the first things to suffer most. A lot of people are probably experiencing suffering programs right now, or even a complete cut.
So, to help each other out, post your fundraising ideas. :] And if you see one you really like or think your band/band director would be into, tell them about it!
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:21 pm
We're planning an alumni concert/silent auction. The jazz band is going to play too.
We're gathering items from members of the community to put up for auction, along with a raffle for a week in a beach house.
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:22 pm
Also, we sold concessions at district solo, since community auditions for Peter Pan were the same day.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:57 am
yeah our school has been thinking about cutting the music program... it really sucks. But i think our principal has some kind of grudge against our director because she doesn't want us to fundraise! ...but parents write out checks to the band to give a bit of support =]. But this year she let us do a carwash(shockingly) and our band raised about $300. yay!
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:07 am
My Band Director is a big meanie.
Every gig he gets asked to do that involves concert band or choir, he makes us go and do the gig so he could get the money. Even if it involved our poor instruments rusting in the rain gonk
My reason for switching from my Brio! flute to a Student Armstrong.
Everyone in band has been complaining about how they have to take their instruments into their local music store to get it fixed after every gig we do outside.
Our band director is thinking of cutting band classes and put more of the funding into choir, which quite offends my friends and I who are in band.
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:38 pm
Fortunately, we're not in danger of being cut right now, but we're in danger of getting way too small. A lot of people in band are graduating this year, and a new high school is opening, so a lot of our incoming band members and some current (our current freshmen) are going to be going there. Plus, it doesn't help that one of the idiot middle school band director doesn't tell the students about when our practices and meetings are...D<
We do a lot of fund raising, though. Selling candy, Breakfast with Santa, hosting an indoor guard/percussion show...and a lot more things. xd
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:35 pm
Our problem is that we can't sell food that isn't nutritious during school hours. When we hosted a Jazz festival, we had to turn away kids at the concessions because we couldn't sell them candy, according to state law, until after school. :
It's the same thing with candy sales on-campus. Our feeder middle school used to sell tons of choir lollipops for fifty cents each, and they sold bags like wildfire! The band candy fundraiser did pretty well there, too, where we sold various candies. We can't hold bake sales, either, for the same "health" reasons.
But as for hosted events, does anyone know how to get non-band people to go? I mean, EVERYONE seems to attend sports at one time or another, and the school pushes for their support, but no one ever knows about hosted band events (besides the music kids).
I'm just scared for next year, because we're not going to be able to do much of anything. Everyone already is pretty upset with our director (and for a LOT of reasons, not just money), and our returning class is going to be 15-20 members less. If we aren't able to go anywhere or do much of anything my senior year, I'm gonna be sad. :[
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:02 pm
290Pika Our problem is that we can't sell food that isn't nutritious during school hours. When we hosted a Jazz festival, we had to turn away kids at the concessions because we couldn't sell them candy, according to state law, until after school. : It's the same thing with candy sales on-campus. Our feeder middle school used to sell tons of choir lollipops for fifty cents each, and they sold bags like wildfire! The band candy fundraiser did pretty well there, too, where we sold various candies. We can't hold bake sales, either, for the same "health" reasons. But as for hosted events, does anyone know how to get non-band people to go? I mean, EVERYONE seems to attend sports at one time or another, and the school pushes for their support, but no one ever knows about hosted band events (besides the music kids). I'm just scared for next year, because we're not going to be able to do much of anything. Everyone already is pretty upset with our director (and for a LOT of reasons, not just money), and our returning class is going to be 15-20 members less. If we aren't able to go anywhere or do much of anything my senior year, I'm gonna be sad. :[ We sold those big Costco muffins, and water and coffee. We kept it simple (and relatively nutritious) And you have to advertise to get people to go. Get it in the paper, make posters. Our alumni concert isn't until late April and we've made posters as well as a banner outside the school. The real support will come from the community rather than the school. Non-band students won't go to something like an alumni concert, but adults will.
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:08 pm
Our BD position got bumped to part-time, which is garbage. And we're a God-awful small band. So I worry about the program being cut a lot.
Fundraising hasn't been so hot since the job cut, but candy boxes did wonders before it. You know, the ones with all the Snickers and Skittles and M&M's. Yes, it's technically against school rules to sell it during the day, but no one at my school who does those fundraisers listens. They just don't get caught. Best fundraiser I've done.
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