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Fair Trade Valentine's |
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Several of you have contacted Equal Exchange with great Fair Trade chocolate fundraiser ideas for Valentine's Day. Equal Exchange's Organic Dark Chocolate Minis are really popular this time of year. Paired with a card, these bite-sized chocolates make great Valentines for card swaps in the classroom. As a fundraiser, some groups sell them individually, 3 minis for $1, or packaged in bags of 10-15. Get creative and make your own gift baskets, or pair a bar of organic and Fair Trade dark chocolate with our Organic Love Buzz coffee! Since Valentine's Day is all about chocolate, it's a great time to educate your school or community about Fair Trade through a fundraiser. Create handouts or posters describing the practice of child slavery in the chocolate industry, and how Equal Exchange Fair Trade ensures no child labor was used in the making of chocolate.
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For Halloween, the Voyager Montessori School in Bainbridge Island, WA is selling Equal Exchange Dark Chocolate "Minis" to families for Halloween Trick-or-Treating. The school is selling bags of 30 minis for $8, and parent Jenny DeWitt is excited "to see what will happen!"
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Fundraising participants at the Westchester Academy for International Studies were rewarded with a coupon to leave class early for a cake party! Kim Montgomery, 7th grade science teacher and fundraising organizer says, "kids respond well to food." While top sellers earned Equal Exchange hats and t-shirts as prizes, the cake party was open to all students that helped raise money for the 7th grade.
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Principal for a Day |
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Creative PTA members at Hawthorne Elementary School in San Luis Obispo rewarded a top fundraiser with the opportunity to be "Principal for a Day." For every 10 items sold, the student's name was entered into a drawing to spend the day with the principal. Parent organizer, Maria Hutkin, said "many kids put down as their 'goal' for selling coffee that they wanted to be principal for a day." "Principal for a Day," and similar incentives, offer an alternative to "trinket-type" prizes. Other surprises were offered in the raffle as well.
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Librarian and parent organizer for the Atrium School in Watertown, MA, Victoria Lane, generates interest for their annual Equal Exchange Fair Trade fundraiser by giving it a theme and identifying a specific fundraising goal. They call it "The Buzz," and past fundraisers have been titled, "Get a Buzz for the Arts," "Get a Buzz for Technology," and most recently, "Get a buzz for a Boing, a Bounce and a Wee," when raising money for playground equipment.
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