At the end of last semester, we finished our campaign “Capturing Smiles Around the World”, in which we sold beautiful posters and photographs taken by Kekoa Taparra. The fundraiser was a great success and we ended up raising $140! We were very pleased by these results, and so were the people who ordered the posters!
Just a few weeks ago, we ran a campaign called “Stag’s for Smiles”. (Stags because our mascot is the Fairfield University Stag) It was a very simple campaign and its primary purpose was to raise awareness around campus. Throughout the day, a group of club members were stationed in our campus center and offered to “stamp” peoples hands with smiley faces as they walked by. When we explained the Operation Smile Organization, we also asked if they would be interested in making a donation. People were very generous and we ended up raising $150! We plan on doing this again before the end of the year because it was easy, cheap and successful!
Last week we held a bake sale in our campus center, which was also very successful. We sold cookies, cupcakes and brownies and were also pleased to take any donations. In the end, we raised $320 -I guess our students love their sweets!
This spring, Fairfield University’s Operation Smile chapter will be holding a raffle fundraiser to raise awareness for the cause in the Fairfield community. We asked group members to go around to local shops in Fairfield or in their hometown to try and get donations for the raffle (either monetary donations, gift baskets, gift cards). For any businesses that did give us a donation, we provided them with a flyer to put in their store window. We were able to get a few donations from local businesses and we plan on launching the fundraiser before Easter Break. Each member is in charge of selling at least 20 tickets, but we plan on selling much more. I will have the results for this fundraiser before the end of the month.
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