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Promotional items that are Good for Schools

2012-03-22T11:21:00.003-07:00

Promotional items that are Good for Schools

If you happen to be on a committee for a community or school organization, you probably help in planning special events. A lot of organized events use small promotional items as free give away products or prizes people can win. These items help promote the service or school that can also be used for fundraising. In the line of products available to promote businesses, services or schools you will find promotional pens pencils and apparel items. What makes them good items for promoting different companies is that they are able to be customized with any name or address.
The pens can come in a variety of different styles including the basic click style and the roller ball design. These promotional items are different than pens you might get personalized for a special occasion. The personalized products are made with metal casings that you can have engraved with someone's name or initials. The items used for special events are usually printed on using different methods depending on the outer casing of the pen. The pencils will also come as items that have a company's name and address printed on them.
The pencils are a popular item for schools to use because they can include the name of the school or the name of the school's sports team and the school's mascot. The main reason pens and pencils are often used as free give away items is because they are very inexpensive to purchase. Rather than paying the full retail prices you would pay at a regular store, the custom designed products are sold at special prices that are much lower, this because they are also sold in large quantities often called cases or lots.
Many companies use these custom designed items at trade show events and flea markets. A popular type of pencil sold today is the name pencil. This item comes as a ready made product with an assortment of today's most popular first names printed on them. You might find these at a flea market that has vendors who sell both new and vintage items. In the category of vintage products, you could stumble upon vintage metal signs that used to be advertising for businesses a long time ago. Many of these are old farm signs that sell as folk art pieces today. Most of these are created as replicas of the original signs so they sell for a reasonable price.

Fundraising Ideas

2012-03-21T13:05:00.001-07:00

Fundraising Ideas by Willow Abilene

As a non-profit organization leader, it is important to consider fundraising ideas that can help support your school, charity or sports team. Launching a fundraiser is also a fantastic team-building exercise, whether you are working with a church, baseball team or the middle school band. There are tons of options for fundraising ideas available, so think about the unique position and goals of your organization before getting started.
You are surely familiar with tried-and-true fundraising ideas such as candy and chocolate fundraising, T-shirts fundraising and cookie dough fundraising. These classics are ideal for youth organizations such as little league teams and school clubs. Group supporters and community members are familiar with these fundraising ideas, which makes the selling process a little easier on your team.
Selling discount cards is one of the best modern fundraising ideas, as they are low in cost to your organization while providing real value to your supporters. For the low price of one card, your supporters are granted great discounts on products they already buy.
City Savings Cards are customizable for your organization, and they support favorite area businesses. You are able to select retailers to feature on your card, and your supporters take advantage of unlimited-use discounts specific to each merchant featured.
Another discount card fundraiser idea is to sell Online Savings Cards, which allow cardholders (your proud supporters) to earn savings of up to 40% on major online retailers. The cards can be sold and used worldwide and your organization can earn a major profits quite easily.
A fundraising company like Buy For Charity can be a great resource for ordering inventory for your fundraiser, and for discovering more unique fundraising ideas. They even feature some particularly creative, student-friendly fundraising ideas like Smencils- scented pencils made from recycled newspaper. Clearly, the options are nearly endless. So choose wisely, and have fun earning cash for your organization.

I Am That Child Paints Real Faces of AIDS, Poverty, and Sexism as Encountered on Cameroon Mission

2012-03-19T15:29:00.000-07:00

What do Mission and Outreach really look like? How tall are they? Male or female? And when does "putting faith into action" mean reaching out far beyond our wallet or comfortable lifestyle? In I Am That Child, Elizabeth Geitz helps answer these questions as she fleshes out the human faces of AIDS, poverty and sexism as experienced first-hand in an orphanage in Cameroon, West Africa.

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Teaching the Bible with Toys

2012-03-19T10:29:00.001-07:00

December 1, 2011

By Dale Hudson

Have you seen the book Teaching Physics with Toys? Here is the philosophy behind it:

"Science is best understood by providing students with opportunities to make connections between their own world and scientific concepts. What’s more natural than using toys as learning tools to teach science to elementary and middle school students? For teachers and students alike, toys can provide motivational and experiential links between science concepts and everyday experience. "

I think this is brilliant. Not because of this company....but because this is one of the key methods Jesus used to teach truth. He used familiar objects from people's everyday world to connect them with truth. Physical objects they saw, touched, used, or interacted with on a regular basis. Think about it... He used birds, flowers, fish, money, seeds, rocks, salt, trees, and much more.

If you want the truths you are teaching to stick in the long-term memory of children, then tie the truths to objects that kids are familiar with. And some of the most familiar objects in a kid's life are toys.

Remember some of your favorite toys growing up? I remember Stretch Armstrong, Atari 2600, G.I. Joe, Lite-Brite, Silly Putty...(okay...I'm dating myself). If those toys had been connected to Biblical truths, I am sure I would not only be thinking about the toys right now, but also about the truths.

Here's the process...

Start with the Biblical truth you want to share. This is the basis. The toy or object is simply a way to illustrate the truth.Find a familiar toy or object from current kid culture. This may even mean a trip to Toys R' Us. The more they use the item, the more effectively it will connect the truth to their long term memory. Use the familiar toy or object when you teach the lesson to illustrate the truth.Encourage the kids to think about the truth each time they see the toy or object you used. Encourage the kids to share the truth they learned with a friend when they are playing or hanging out together and see the familiar toy or object.Partner with parents. Share with them the truth and toy or object you used, so they can do the same at home. Encourage them to also look for ways they can tie truth into toys or objects from their child's everyday world.

I have personally seen the effectiveness of this many times. I remember teaching the kids that Jesus is the only way to heaven. I had a one way street sign in my hand as I was teaching (no...I didn't steal it). Over a year later we were on the bus going to camp. We passed a one way sign and one of the boys yelled out from the back of the bus, "Look Pastor Dale, a one way sign...there's only one way to heaven!" My heart skipped a beat when he said that. I knew the truth had found it's way into his long term memory.

The next time you stand up to teach kids, why not have a toy or everyday object in your hand? Teaching the Bible with toys works!

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Fundraising for Elementary Schools, High Schools, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, PTA, PTO, Travel ...

2012-03-16T05:01:00.001-07:00

Fundraising for Elementary Schools, High Schools, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, PTA, PTO, Travel Teams Log In Explore Topics Join Us Go Squidoo Close Home » Nonprofits » Fundraising » Fundraising Ideas Fundraising for Elementary Schools, High Schools, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, PTA, PTO, Travel Teams Like 84 RSS Pin It Ranked #58 in Nonprofits, #12,408 overall

Finding the right fundraiser for your Not for Profit organization is essential to maximizing your donations

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