What does a local bar, shuffle board, pizza, darts, and huge raffle have to do with Team In Training?? Its the combination for a fun-filled fundraising raising event! Abby, Ellen, and I hosted the event this past Friday night. We collected TONS of donations from local businesses and raffled off 22 prizes! We had a variety of prizes that ranged from oil changes, restaurant gift certificates, free bowling passes, sweatshirts, gym memberships, etc. We also sold pizza for $2 a slice while patrons enjoyed playing shuffle board, darts, billiards, and jammin' out to the juke box! The event raked in just over $500 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
I was hoping the event would have been a little better for us, but ya just cant control the uncontrollable. The bar accidentally double booked events, so we were sharing the bar with group who was serving catered food. Needless to say, its hard to sell pizza for $2/slice when there is a table of FREE food 30ft away! Our pizza sales suffered, but at the end of the night, a good time was had by all! My voice was a little hoarse from announcing the winners over a routy crowd.
I am getting really nervous about the fundraising...its going to be a long road travelled to meet my goal. I need to raise $2,900 and I am barely half way there! Yikes :S
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