In addition to our upcoming Fall Flower Bulb fundraiser (which is super awesome by the way!), we have an exciting opportunity to host a Goodwill Donation Drive and earn lots of money for our pack! This is a much larger fundraiser than we've ever done before and hope to be able to offer more programming and maybe even help kids go to summer camp this year. For such a small group, this is a big undertaking and we will need everyone's help to make it a success. Goodwill will be bringing their bins to the Wrightwood Methodist Church parking lot on Saturday, September 13th and it is our job to bring in enough stuff to fill them!
Besides the obvious of cleaning out your closets and donating your old things on the 13th, you can help us out in other ways:
1. We need our flyers circulating through the whole tri-community area. If you frequent a business in town, please ask if they will hang one in their window. Hand out fliers to your neighbors, friends, teachers, co-workers, whoever! You can print the flyer I attached to this email or you can get some from your den leader or Wendi.
2. Stocking up on yard sale leftovers is a huge way to gather donations before the drop off day. People don't want to haul their leftovers to the dump or leave it on the curb. If you see a yard sale, stop and ask if they'll donate their leftover things to us instead. Offer to pick up their leftovers on Sunday when they've finished their sale. Some people will be so excited to get rid of their things, they'll even bag it up for you! Then bring all your collected goodies to the drop off on the 13th. Remember, Labor Day weekend yard sales are coming up - keep your eyes open.
3. We have already been stockpiling yard sale leftovers and need more space to store it all. If you have space in a shed or garage that you're willing to give up for a few weeks, please contact Wendi so we can keep collecting things. Storage is a huge need right now. To make this fundraiser work, Goodwill has suggested that we be collecting things prior to the drop off day and in order to do that, we need space!
4. If you don't have any room in your garage but have a truck or trailer and would be willing to do pickups, that would be a huge help as well. People are more than willing to give us their stuff, but lots of them do not want to haul it. So if we can offer pickups, we will bring in more "junk". Let Wendi know if you would be willing to help pickup items for us and when you're available.
5. Give some trash bags to your neighbors and ask them to fill them with their donations and you will come back to pick it up in a couple days. That makes it easy for them (EVERYONE can fill a trash bag of junk!) and you can help bring in more items.
6. We will also need a little help the day of the drive (9/13 9am-1pm). Goodwill will have employees on site to load the bins, but we need a few adults to help unload people's cars and keep everyone organized. We are hoping to get parents to sign up for shifts so no one has to be there all day. Please let me or Wendi know when you can help out that day. We could use some boys to make signs and maybe hang out on the corners near the church to bring in traffic.
We are hoping that everyone can participate in some way and help make this a success. Let us know if you have any questions!
