Recovery Proposal: Adopt-A-Family

I think one of the times when I was at my best happened two years ago in my Junior year of high school. Our Interact Club was about to start a new fundraising project for a local organization called Adopt-a-Family. Basically, we would raise money and then buy Christmas presents for local families that were in need. The fundraiser was called “Penny Wars” in which each grade level would compete to raise the most money. Pennies and dollars were positive points, while nickels, dimes and quarters where negative points. We had an issue with advertising, however. So, I took it upon myself and showed great initiative and made an iMovie trailer on my iPad to advertise the event. I found another person who was willing to help and we came up with a concept for the trailer and went to work. We completed most of it that first day and showed it to the Interact Club advisors …show more content…
As an organization, we have a really good relationship with our local animal shelter and we hold an annual fundraiser every year for them. Typically our fundraiser would be selling “Hearts for H.A.R.T.” (Heartland Animal Rescue Team). However, we felt that the students were not really motivated to participate and our annual monies raised from that event became less and less each year. So, another member came up with the idea of us selling popcorn, instead. I took point on this project with my co-president and we coordinated all of the scheduling for the event including making the popcorn, distributing the popcorn, and cleaning up the mess we made with popcorn. The popcorn and bags were donated by the local boosters club which made every dollar received pure profit. The whole event went off without a hitch and we nearly tripled the profit of previous years. My co-president and I had the opportunity to deliver the check to the Animal Shelter and it was a really cool