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A: FROM MENTOR KRISTIN
TAGHON in IL
Emily,
First of all - congratulations!! What an honor! Please persevere
and
make it happen! 2184 dollars sounds like alot, but I KNOW
that you can
do it!
I have a couple ideas, but they aren't definite for you.
Do you know anyone in Medicine? I suggest you ask them how
they would
do it. They may have scholarships or money that would go towards
helping
young women meet their goals for careers in medicine.
If you are old enough, you should get a job and that will
help you put
some of that money toward your goal.
Have you done an internet search on fund-raising? You might
get alot
of ideas on how to raise money for your event. I just did
a search from
www.google.com and entered
"National Youth Leadership Forum Medicine" and saw
alot of returns!!
Here is one on Success Stories on raising money for that forum!!
http://www.nylf.org/fundraising/
Here's a fundraising guide:
http://www.nylf.org/shared/fundraising_guide.pdf
http://www.nylf.org/shared/fundraising_guide.pdf
After reading the guide, I thought of one that I Know my
mother would
support. My mother lives in a city where you have to take
your
recyclables to a recycling center. She is 84 and she saves
all her
cans and bottles and newspapers to take. I think she would
welcome someone
to come and take it for her!! You could charge 5 dollars to
pick up
someone's recyclables every month and take to a recycling
center! If
you found 10 people per week, you would raise a lot of money
in a month!
You could raise 200 a month and it wouldn't take much time
if you told each
person to leave their recyclables by their door. Check out
the other
ideas in the guide and on the website.
I also found a link on GEMSET from 2003
with a bunch of ideas.
See http://www.uic.edu/orgs/gem-set/archive031220q3.htm
Kristin
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