How do you raise $97,000 for a new school library?
Our fundraising began with an amazing sign the school yard.
Here's how this sign came to be:
-Spring 2016, library committee meeting. "Hey, we need one of those thermometer type signs in front of the school." "Yes! I'll talk to Dave about how to make one."
June, 2016: Question to Dave: "Hey, what do you think about making one of those thermometer signs indicating how close we are to our overall fundraising goal for the front of the Curley?"
Dave: "Yes, we need one of those. What if, instead of it going vertically, like a thermometer, the indicator was horizontal, like books on a shelf in a library?"
Pam, to Dave: "YES!!!!"
Fall, 2016: Ashley designs this:
December, 2016: Dave interprets Ashley's design:
Then Dave cuts the jointly designed sign, which Jodie, Chris, Ashley, Pam and Alex (along with a few stray children) paint in Chris' basement:
Dave and Chris, perhaps under the cover of darkness (but with full permission of Dig-Safe) dig holes, plant posts, and attach sign.
By the New Year, our End-of-Year Library and Technology Fundraiser Kickoff has raised $10,000.
March 2107: Chris drills in the seventh book on the sign, and the campaign reaches $35,000.
Late June 2017: the school year closes out at $43,000, with donations big and small, including a total of $270.00 from Ms. Wright's 4th grade lemonade stand on the second to last full school day for the year:
August 2017: through the generosity of an anonymous donor who initiated our summer fundrsaising matching program, the Library Campaign not only hits our $70,000 goal, but exceeds it! Another late night installation to the sign:
So, how do you raise $77,000 for an urban public school to reopen its long shuttered libraries?
With community.
Here's how this sign came to be:
-Spring 2016, library committee meeting. "Hey, we need one of those thermometer type signs in front of the school." "Yes! I'll talk to Dave about how to make one."
June, 2016: Question to Dave: "Hey, what do you think about making one of those thermometer signs indicating how close we are to our overall fundraising goal for the front of the Curley?"
Dave: "Yes, we need one of those. What if, instead of it going vertically, like a thermometer, the indicator was horizontal, like books on a shelf in a library?"
Pam, to Dave: "YES!!!!"
Fall, 2016: Ashley designs this:
December, 2016: Dave interprets Ashley's design:
Then Dave cuts the jointly designed sign, which Jodie, Chris, Ashley, Pam and Alex (along with a few stray children) paint in Chris' basement:
By the New Year, our End-of-Year Library and Technology Fundraiser Kickoff has raised $10,000.
March 2107: Chris drills in the seventh book on the sign, and the campaign reaches $35,000.
Late June 2017: the school year closes out at $43,000, with donations big and small, including a total of $270.00 from Ms. Wright's 4th grade lemonade stand on the second to last full school day for the year:
August 2017: through the generosity of an anonymous donor who initiated our summer fundrsaising matching program, the Library Campaign not only hits our $70,000 goal, but exceeds it! Another late night installation to the sign:
So, how do you raise $77,000 for an urban public school to reopen its long shuttered libraries?
With community.
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