A Successful Fundraising Event!

(Yes, these cookie dough filled, homemade fudge topped cupcakes are amazing! Care of Mrs. Kohn!)

While in recovery mode, it gave me some extra time to focus on my fundraiser that I held last week at work! I buddied up with a friend at work who is also in Team in Training but training for the triathlon (Tiffany). We spent about two weeks planning lunch and a bake sale for my office (I knew both would be a hit in a crowd of a bunch of runners!) for the Tuesday before Thanksgiving! It was a success!

(Our sign, donation jar and cookies care of Liz W.)

(Elaina—one of our team captains, who also works at Brooks, is showing how to fill up a goodie bag!)

We started by asking around for people to volunteer the baking skills! We had so many people bring in goodies! We must have filled a table that was 10ft by 3.5ft. Cookies, Cupcakes, pies, you name it we had it arrive.

(Scalloped Potatoes with Ham a la Stephanie—the final bites!)

(Salads a la Tiffany)

For lunch, I served up Scalloped Potatoes with Ham and Tiffany brought a variety of Salads! We probably could have made more! We asked for everyone to sign up by the end of Monday, but as I am sure you all guessed we figured about 6 people signed up after the fact! No biggie!

I got lots of great comments about my lunch, which was nice since I tend to get picked on for burning food! The bake sale was such a hit we set it out again the next day for folks to peruse some more! And when I left mid day we were still gathering funds!

So, my fundraising tally has began to move! I have had some great donations from family and friends (way more than I was ever anticipating!) and am looking forward to planning more events at work, the lunch seemed to be a great idea!

Thanks to all who came to support us!

WANT THE DETAILS?
Bake sale: 
1. We sent out flyers in co-workers mailboxes asking for them to donate their cooking expertise!
2. We allowed folks to donate at their own discretion, however, we did provide small paper bags and suggested a $5 donation for a filled bag. 
3. We made lunch that day to give people more reason to come into the cafeteria where the bake sale was happening (everyone eats lunch and most can't resist the baked goods!)


Lunch:
1. Do a sign up sheet so you bring enough for everyone
2. Consider a vegetarian option
3. Set a recommended donation, we set it at $5 
4. We sent out an email and posted signs around our office the week prior! Note, you should probably check with the folks in charge to make sure this is okay, we got a small slap on the wrist!