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Wilber-ClatoniaWilber-Clatonia FBLA held a very successful food driveOctober 22-29 that accumulated 1,107 items. The chapter helda competition throughout the whole school with a prize of apizza party. The second graders won the competition with 336items while the kindergarten class came in second with 263items.The food drive caught a lot of attention, and it was verysuccessful for the Elder Care Food Pantry. The food drivelasted only a week, and FBLA members did daily pick-upsfrom around the school and used a chart to let everyone knowwhere their grade was on contributing the most items to winthe party. The donated food overwhelmed Mrs. Finley’s roomuntil the members loaded all the food to be taken to the ElderCare, which took two pick-ups and a lot of muscle.WaverlyThis fall, Waverly FBLA put their heads together and triedto come up with a way to help the community and itsmembers. Each year Waverly FBLA provides scholarshipmoney to members that are continuing their education andplanning to join a PBL chapter in college. The money wasrunning low in this fund, so Waverly FBLA decided to team upwith the Nebraska Community Blood Bank to host a blooddrive.The goal for the blood drive was 49 units of blood. TheWaverly blood drive collected over 70 units, raising over $700dollars for the graduating class of 2012. The blood drive willcontinue at Waverly every year to help maintain thescholarship program. It will also provide the necessary bloodthat the Nebraska Community Blood Bank provides toLincoln and surrounding areas.Omaha NorthwestThe members of the Northwest High School FBLA chapterorganized a community service project called the “12 Days ofGiving.” Each day for 12 consecutive days, students and staffdonated different items for various community charities.The items included the following: 430 canned food items,300 toothbrushes and toothpaste, over 200 sets of gloves,mittens, and hats and over 400 personal hygiene items such assoap, lotion, deodorant, shampoo. In addition, students andstaff donated more than 1,000 paper items such as papertowels, toilet paper, tissue, 60 different serving items like cups,plates, utensils, napkins and trash bags, nearly 100 blankets,pillows, stuffed animals and toys, over 100 baby itemsincluding lotion, powder and diapers, 68 sets of sheets andtowels, 59 packages of batteries, 70 coats, and 114 pairs ofsocks. Northwest FBLA donated the entire proceeds from the“12 Days of Giving” to the Salvation Army.MindenThis year, Minden FBLA’s annual Soup Supper/Concessionnight was a huge success! The event took place on January 20during a home basketball game. The game attracted a largeamount of people, and we made massive fundraising leaps!The night consisted of a remarkable trifecta of a concessionstand, soup supper and newly added cake raffle—all of whichproved to be very profitable.The concession stand was the most successful element ofthe whole night. By expanding our menu, we generated asubstantially larger amount of revenue compared to pastyears. Additionally, the soup supper proved to be extremelysuccessful. The three different soups we offered along withsandwiches and desserts lured many spectators to the supper,creating a big profit in the end. Moreover, our enhancedpromotion techniques such as posters, press releases andflyers improved traffic and made the event advantageous forour chapter.As a chapter, we also decided to incorporate one morecomponent into the fundraiser. A cake raffle! We sold raffletickets to spectators: $1 for one ticket or $5 for seven tickets.By placing the cake raffle next to the soup supper, manypeople visited both activities. We raffled 12 cakes and thendistributed them to the lucky sports fans who were drawnduring the halftimes of the girls and boys basketball games.This new element of the soup supper night generated asubstantial amount of money, and we are planning to use it infuture years. Our whole FBLA chapter pitched in by donatingall of the food, and we couldn’t have done it without ourdedicated chapter!Lyons-Decatur NortheastOur success story went beyond FBLA and encompassedthe entire school. Each year we do a canned food drive andeach year cans slowly trickle in with some success. We hadreceived a report that Hearts and Hands, the local foodcontinued on next page12 — PLEDGE Online 50 fabulous years - 1962-2012March, 2012
pantry, was extremely low, and they didn’t know how theywere going to feed the families they normally served.After much thought and a great idea from one of ourseniors, we found a way to raise the stakes. This year wouldbe different. We decided to get our English class into the gameplan. For every 5 cans students donated, they would get 1Accelerated Reader (AR) point. For the staff, 6 cans broughtin earned that person a day to wear jeans to school. Theelementary was rewarded by class, with each class getting thechance to play games in the gym.After the principal made the announcement about the fooddrive, the hype began. The next day there were 50 cans linedup in the early morning. The following day there were morethan 200 cans. The days to come brought in more than justcans but flour bags, cereal, water bottles and even fun foodlike Spaghettio’s and cake mixes.The previous year we had set our goal a little high, only torevise it half way through the food drive to something moreattainable. We didn’t want to revise it again this year and setthe goal at 1,200 cans. It was higher than the previous year’sfinal count, and we thought this might be tough to reach. Wewere hopeful that our new strategy would pull in cans fromstudents who didn’t normally contribute.Each morning the cans kept coming and the AR pointswere awarded. The count was in, the cans were here, and thetotal came to 2,568 food items! Thanks to the rewards, wewere able to deliver more than double the previous year. Thiswas more than a success story for the chapter; it was asuccess for the community!GibbonIn a CSO joint effort, the Gibbon FBLA and FCCLA hostedthe Fall 2011 American Red Cross Blood Drive at Gibbon HighSchool on October 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. GibbonFBLA members recruited donors, donated food items fordonors before and after giving blood and also helped sign upthe students and community members who were registered todonate.The Gibbon community and high school studentscontributed 35 pints of whole blood and six pints of doublered. Their contribution was greatly appreciated as it madesuch a difference in the lives of hospital patients in our areaand across the nation.LitchfieldAmerican Enterprise Day was a huge success for theLitchfield Chapter of FBLA. The American Enterprise Daycommittee planned and carried out an educational project toteach the elementary students in grades 3-6 aboutentrepreneurship. Students had a wonderful time creatingtheir own businesses and planning advertising for thisbusiness. All of the students learned a lot about starting andowning a business. Students were very enthusiastic about theproject. In addition, elementary students were introduced tothe FBLA organization.Johnson-BrockOn November 2, all senior and junior high students had achance to check out different jobs at the FBLA career fair.Students went to different stations and had their questionsanswered about different career fields by representatives inthose fields.One station was about becoming a teacher while anotherwas about the field of photography. Some stations, like theone on coaching, had a Peru State college representative.Another station featured information about going into thetechnology field and had a local ESU representative there totake questions. There were 17 different stations available. Itwas an exciting afternoon and many students developed abetter idea of what type of career they would like to pursue.The career fair also helped seniors establish contacts in fieldsthat they will follow in college.continued on next page13 — PLEDGE Online 50 fabulous years - 1962-2012March, 2012
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