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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 

fundraising: its rhymes with hell-raising

As always, money talks... And I saw how loudly it sounds when I read Lyn's entry on charity. So here's an exact copy and paste, replying to a teacher who requested for fundraising to be done in his CCA, because they were supporting some group for the President's Star Charity.

Yes, don't exhaust the goodwill charity needs any further.

So here's where I come from...

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Hi Teacher,

Thanks for your mail. My opinion on this is that I am not for the fundraising project.

As students, fundraising is a total nightmare. With several issues such as Rejection, ownership etc etc (the list is endless..) to tackle, the poor kid is probably overwhelmed by the task at hand.

Most of the time, these issues are the result of inadequate preparation of the event. (More often than not, the proper marketing, the techniques etc etc.) At an age where there is such a great need for acceptance by their friends, we do neither prep work nor feedback/debrief sessions to hear them out at the end of the collection, the most we talk about the fundraising is chasing them for the money, and the money and the money.. (and probably this explains our own organization's collections...erm.. $7 from a kid? $2.40 from another?)

They can't really handle what they have been asked to do, see little or no purpose in it, so they end up not bothering at all. 'Its really not worth it, I don't even know where the money goes.. or what difference it would make?!'

So unless we can manage show them the results of previous fundraising activities, tangibly show them how the beneficiaries benefit from it, show them that their act of compassion does have a spiral effect or 'multiplier effect' in the community, students won't really comprehend what we have to say on having the sell the booklets. To them, 'they're(the students) just another bunch of convenient cheap labour all those Charities 'MAKE USE' of to collect money for them.'

I suppose these are really grandeur ideas about spiral effects and such, but I suppose it boils down to 2 things, it being Purposeful (knowledge of their actions) and Intentional (conviction of their heart). I'm sure none of us like being an object of conveniences, neither do the kids (students).

Unless they want to really do it, with deep conviction; I'm all for it. (I'm sure the only thing that drives them to do something is when they really believe in it, not like coming to school because if I don't.... coming for CCA, if i don't then... there isn't any ifs to it.)

Let them understand what they are doing, I'm sure it'd create more passion in our student on this project. Ever heard of the so passionate salesman who sold fridges to the Eskimos?

At the end of the day, 'We're human beings, not human doings.'

Cheers,
Mun

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