SO! Seeing as though $20 million is a wee bit of money, and that's an awful lot of doors to knock on, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for different avenues. The ones I've recieved so far are
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For the anime club: they probably won't be organized enough for anything at all until late October. Meetings will probably still be on Wednesdays, but a calendar of which are meetings and which are Council meetings probably won't be prepared until mid-September.
Put together a presentation...an emotional, inspirational video or Powerpoint, as well as have an organized speech prepared. If you're not organized with a great presentation, you will lose that group's attention in seconds flat (you remember them!) I'll be happy to help you tailor that presentation to this particular audience once you have a draft.
In my experience, it's very, very, VERY hard to get a whole school behind a single charitable project. You're lucky if you get one club totally behind something. And I know it's cynical of me, but I really doubt you can get students behind supporting a school for people they've never met in a country most teens have probably never heard of. As for going through principals, my guess is they'd likely direct you to individual clubs. Principals have a hard enough time getting supplies for their own schools (you should hear the diatribes we go through at every faculty meeting about how many copies we make vs. the size of our copy paper budget), much less extra for others. I know that when causes have contacted Manchester, usually the entire faculty just gets an email from the Activity Director asking if we know anyone who wants to take up the cause. Rarely do I ever hear anything else about those causes.
So, my advice, school-wise: research and contact as many clubs as you can, and look specifically for Anime Clubs and Beta Clubs, schools that have any sort of Asian studies classes, and the like, and contact those specific groups.
Whoops...I meang get a *whole school* of students behind a charitable project, not get any students, period.
OH! Last year the Mass Comm center did a huge project on the problems in Darfur. Mass Comm students designed t-shirts and posters and things that they sold, and the profits went to charities that are attempting to stop the abuses in Darfur.
Put together a presentation...an emotional, inspirational video or Powerpoint, as well as have an organized speech prepared. If you're not organized with a great presentation, you will lose that group's attention in seconds flat (you remember them!) I'll be happy to help you tailor that presentation to this particular audience once you have a draft.
In my experience, it's very, very, VERY hard to get a whole school behind a single charitable project. You're lucky if you get one club totally behind something. And I know it's cynical of me, but I really doubt you can get students behind supporting a school for people they've never met in a country most teens have probably never heard of. As for going through principals, my guess is they'd likely direct you to individual clubs. Principals have a hard enough time getting supplies for their own schools (you should hear the diatribes we go through at every faculty meeting about how many copies we make vs. the size of our copy paper budget), much less extra for others. I know that when causes have contacted Manchester, usually the entire faculty just gets an email from the Activity Director asking if we know anyone who wants to take up the cause. Rarely do I ever hear anything else about those causes.
So, my advice, school-wise: research and contact as many clubs as you can, and look specifically for Anime Clubs and Beta Clubs, schools that have any sort of Asian studies classes, and the like, and contact those specific groups.
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OH! Last year the Mass Comm center did a huge project on the problems in Darfur. Mass Comm students designed t-shirts and posters and things that they sold, and the profits went to charities that are attempting to stop the abuses in Darfur.
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