Zig Zag Readers!
If, and only if, you want to help Wylie in his "item" quest...you can pick out something online. Here's the scoop:
go to www.gafundraising.com and click on the Online store tab bottom left. Key in the School organization code:
937672
When prompted, fill in Wylie Harris for first and last name!
It's items, not $ amount spent--so go for lots of cheap things! ,)
Thank you in advance for any holiday shopping you do this way. He is working diligently on the project and the deadline is Friday, September 12th.
We'll let you know how it turns out!
Showing posts with label school fundraisers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school fundraisers. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
200 items
Every year in September it's the same refrain: Mom, I need to sell 200 items so I can get _____.
Yep: it's school fund-raiser time!
Wylie, more than Campbell or McKenna ever did, embraces the motivational energy of well-intentioned sales reps for various candy/treat/cheesy-gift companies. He becomes intoxicated with the idea of working for an elusive "something". In other words, he gets the fever.
Yesterday, Sunday, he brought the brochure to our church. Now, we are a portable church--we set up and tear down everything every week. This means, all the humans there in the morning are busy doing the set up and tear down, etc. Even if they have the heart to support the 200 item movement, they don't really have a chance to visit with him sincerely about it. After the first 15 minutes, Wylie came up to me with a predictable complaint:
"No one is buying any items. How will I get to 200 items?"
And, I tried to encourage him with a canned 'how to handle rejection it's a numbers-game' speech. This was of little comfort. Wylie does not think along those lines.
His solution?
"Mom, can I have a lemonade stand? Then I can sell lemonade and get the $ to buy 200 items".
Oi vei!
Local readers and friends of Wylie: help me out, please! Ask him if YOU can support his school fund-raiser. Either that or stock up on lemonade at the Harris Ranch...
Yep: it's school fund-raiser time!
Wylie, more than Campbell or McKenna ever did, embraces the motivational energy of well-intentioned sales reps for various candy/treat/cheesy-gift companies. He becomes intoxicated with the idea of working for an elusive "something". In other words, he gets the fever.
Yesterday, Sunday, he brought the brochure to our church. Now, we are a portable church--we set up and tear down everything every week. This means, all the humans there in the morning are busy doing the set up and tear down, etc. Even if they have the heart to support the 200 item movement, they don't really have a chance to visit with him sincerely about it. After the first 15 minutes, Wylie came up to me with a predictable complaint:
"No one is buying any items. How will I get to 200 items?"
And, I tried to encourage him with a canned 'how to handle rejection it's a numbers-game' speech. This was of little comfort. Wylie does not think along those lines.
His solution?
"Mom, can I have a lemonade stand? Then I can sell lemonade and get the $ to buy 200 items".
Oi vei!
Local readers and friends of Wylie: help me out, please! Ask him if YOU can support his school fund-raiser. Either that or stock up on lemonade at the Harris Ranch...
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