Captain's Challenge

Captains and committee members: Listed below are the competition description 

and guidelines.


The First Annual MiniTHON captain competition is a series of ongoing events to 

get each committee to challenge each group to raise as much money as they can. 

The captains will take the lead on this competition but need to get committee 

members involved. (Committee member contact information can be given out to 

captains for communication purposes). Ultimately, the goal is to obviously raise 

the most money as a committee which can be done with the following 

methods/fundraising ideas:

• Donor Drive!! Huge fundraising tool where every person can participate in this, have every member set up a page and send family and friends emails.
• Sample email to send through Donor Drive is pasted at bottom of document: 
• *Make sure to replace names and keywords with words that are relevant to yourself.

Organizing small but effective fundraisers:

          - Candy or gum grams in the cafeteria

           - Asking local/small businesses to sell paper diamonds at their store where $1 

             for the paper diamond will go towards Hempfield MiniTHON and then the 

              buyer will be able to write name on paper slip and can be displayed in the 

              store. (Dr. F has Paper Diamonds - see her to pick up.)

           - Organizing a restaurant fundraiser where a portion of the evening’s 

             proceeds go towards our MiniTHON.

          - Organizing with Dr. F/school a day for your committee to can in a local area 

            or at local business. 

           - Asking local businesses to set a decorated can by their register asking for 

             donations to Hempfield MiniTHON. (Dr. F has signs and can labels to go 

            along with this for businesses).

          - Approaching corporate businesses asking for a donation to Hempfield 

            MiniTHON, corporate fundraising packet can be found on website under 

           “Donations.” See Spreadsheet link from website so that businesses are not 

            contacted twice. If you are going to contact a business, add your name to the 

            spreadsheet.

         - Please make sure you send Thank Yous to all who donate - individuals or 

            businesses. Dr. F has Thank You post cards.

          - See Dr. F for any other supplies you might need (paint, posters, signs, etc.)

Guidelines:

          - This competition must be captain run however your overall can be a part of  it.

          - The captains have to get a minimum of 50% of the committee members 

           involved in the competition in some way or another, i.e through donor drive 

           or small fundraiser.

        - The competition will extend from February 8th to March 31st where totals 

         will be calculated in the last week. 

        - Each committee will work separately, however when totals are calculated 

        they will be calculated based on average amount raised for each member of 

        the committee (including captains.) This is due to some committees being 

        smaller than other committees. 

        - At the end of the two month long competition, whichever committee raises 

        the most money will be provided with an array of gift cards as well as pizza 

        and ice cream… and the satisfaction that you raised as much money as 

          possible for our MiniTHON.