Soda Ban
Schools in Everett, Washington, are taking a big hit in the pocketbook now that soda and junk food have been banned.
Instead of putting their spare change into vending machines, maybe kids can drop their money into collection boxes for extracurricular activities. At the end of each day, I empty my pockets of loose change and drop it all into a jar. It's amazing how quickly those coins accumulate. Over the course of last year my nickels and dimes added up to over $200. That's a lot of unpurchased pop!
Instead of putting their spare change into vending machines, maybe kids can drop their money into collection boxes for extracurricular activities. At the end of each day, I empty my pockets of loose change and drop it all into a jar. It's amazing how quickly those coins accumulate. Over the course of last year my nickels and dimes added up to over $200. That's a lot of unpurchased pop!
Permalink posted by Phil at 1:01 PM
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Not to mention the health benefits...
We did a fundraiser at school last year for one month. Each child kept a piggy bank on the kitchen counter and the families filled them up every week. Every Friday that month the kids brought in the change and we took it to the bank. Guess how much was collected from a school with only 120 kids in a little over a month? $10,000. I did some research before the fundraiser and found that the average family has at least $100 in unused, loose change sitting around the house at any given time. Most adults empty at least $5 from their pockets/purses every few days. Many have much more than $100 in big, old containers sitting in the garage. Anyway, the kids LOVED it and in a relatively painless way we were able to build an "outdoor classroom" and with money left over we were able to bring in some special programs as well. And the grown ups did not even think of it as having to donate "money." Some were even happy to get rid of all their old change. So, I recommend a loose change campaign for any kind of fundraiser. We went full tilt with ours. We bought each child a cheap plastic piggy bank, we had a local farmer bring his pigs for a morning and talk about pigs etc. We had a Piggy newsletter that month. We gave the kids fun things like "no homework night" or extra recess day when they brought in their change. It was a blast.
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