Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
The Pink
2012-13
FBLA Community Service Report 2012-2013
Katie Parsons and Kylie Ackerman Appleton City High school FBLA
Table of Contents
Purpose of the Project ................................................................................................................................... 3 Statement of Project Goals........................................................................................................................ 3 Service to the Community and Citizens .................................................................................................... 4 Donations for Local Services .................................................................................................................... 5 Planning and Development ........................................................................................................................... 5 Event Name ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Date and Location Selection ..................................................................................................................... 5 Organization.............................................................................................................................................. 5 Implementation of the Project ....................................................................................................................... 7 Community Participation .......................................................................................................................... 7 Corporate Sponsors ................................................................................................................................... 7 Student Body............................................................................................................................................. 7 Attendance ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Impact and Benefits to the Community ........................................................................................................ 8 Tributes ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Distribution of Funds ................................................................................................................................ 9 Evidence of Publicity .................................................................................................................................. 10 Evaluation ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Works Cited ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Appendix ..................................................................................................................................................... 12
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will continue to do this event in many years to come. We were all able to witness first hand, the battle that cancer patients are forced to fight. In 2006, Jill Fischer, our business teacher and FBLA advisor, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Mrs. Fischer was a healthy 34 year old with no family history of breast cancer and no previous health conditions. Even if you are believed to be living a healthy and safe life, at any given time, cancer could overtake it. As Mrs. Fischer endured the process of cancer treatments, the student body became more understanding of cancer and the effects it has on a family. She, along with Mrs. Moore, PE Instructor and friend of Mrs. Fischer, gave us insight and guidance in the
organization of this special event. Statement of Project Goals Raise awareness about cancer, particularly breast cancer. Honor cancer survivors in our immediate area. Increase member participation in major community service activities. Demonstrate, encourage and build upon the moral standards of Future Business Leaders of America.
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Increase awareness of the effects of cancer in our community. Increase cooperation among various organizations and ACHS students. Provide cancer fighters and survivors with the hope and support from people throughout our community. Provide people throughout the community with the opportunity to aid in helping cancer victims. Increase awareness of the fifth annual Pink Night event. Start a Pink Night during Basketball Season. Continue to have growth in donation amounts.
Service to the Community and Citizens Our FBLA and FCCLA chapters along with our football, volleyball, basketball and cheerleading teams wanted to continue the effort started previously, which has had extensive impacts in our community. Breast Cancer is an issue that affects many people in multiple ways throughout the community. We decided that it would be valuable to increase awareness about the distressing effects of breast cancer. Committees from the FBLA and FCCLA chapters came together to collaborate on ideas of how to accomplish this mission, making it even more advantageous and valuable than last years successful event. Keeping in mind that our goal is still to impact as many lives as possible, we wanted to expand our targets in hopes of impacting a larger amount of people in the community. By holding this event at a basketball game as well we had hopes of targeting an even broader audience.
First, we wanted to honor those whose lives have been personally affected. This wish was to recognize the men and women who have survived the fight against breast cancer and those who are currently fighting. We also wanted to be able to remember and show our respect to the ones who have endured this battle and the ones who have not survived it. It is easily seen how necessary it is for cancer patients to obtain qualities such as strength, courage, and hope and to also receive these from close friends and family. Not only does cancer affect the people who are diagnosed, but it also affects their family and friends. Friends and Family convey the necessary support and encouragement to help remain positive about life. While planning our community service project we decided it would be essential to accept help from outside community members, and allow people to feel like they can make a difference.
Volleyball Pink Night Information Booth Left to Right: Mikayla Jacks, Haily Sieleman, Kylie Ackerman, and Katie Parsons
This year we decided to offer our profits to local cancer prevention services. We will be setting up a fund called Cancer Coaches, a non-profit organization. Cancer Coaches will be directed by community leaders from the medical field, cancer survivors, and supporters of cancer research. The mission of Cancer Coaches is to financially assist residents of Bates and St. Clair counties with early detection of breast cancer, copayments, travel to and from treatments and
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other financial burdens. Additionally there will be formal and informal support offered through counseling and volunteers. The registration and non-profit application process has begun. Donations for Local Services Honoring those affected by breast cancer was not the only idea behind Pink Night: we also wanted to raise funds for local prevention services and to be able to place this money in a non-profit group called Cancer Coaches. Overall, we hoped to benefit women as well as men who have been affected by breast cancer. By donating to this foundation, we will help to aid in minimizing the stress of breast cancer treatments as well as possibly preventing treatment by early detection.
Event Name The decision was made to keep the name Pink Night from the previous years to help increase name recognition and support. This decision emphasizes the cause that we are fighting for because pink is the national breast cancer color. We decided to come up with a different slogan each year. FBLA, FCCLA, Football, Volleyball and Basketball members met to brainstorm for possible slogans. After several themes were considered, the consensus was, Turn Up the Pink, fashioned after the Chris Brown song. Turn Up the Music. By choosing Turn Up the Pink we had in mind of raising awareness to benefit local breast cancer prevention services. Date and Location Selection The next obstacle we had to overcome was to set a location and a date for Pink Night. When planning we had to keep in mind a time that would be convenient for most people to attend. By pairing with the football, volleyball, and basketball teams, this joint effort provided convenience and an excellent location. We used our football field for our football Pink Night and our high school gym for the volleyball and basketball Pink Nights. After further discussion among the club, we decided to host the football Pink Night at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, September the 21. The decision was made to host the volleyball Pink Night at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October the 16, and the basketball Pink Night on January 29, at 5:30 p.m. All coaches and the Athletic Director were contacted to approve the date selections. Organization As we continued planning the event, we referenced past years lists of committees. We began to assign committees, each with certain tasks to complete.
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FBLA and FCCLA Members brainstorming on Pink Night themes. Left to Right: Logan Siegismund, Tabitha Jackson, and Christian Smith
Activities were planned by the Co-chairs of Pink Night. The Pink Night Co-chairs decided to have a car rally before the volleyball Pink Night. The Chair asked the cheerleaders about the Pup Squad (see page 8 for explanation) preforming and also asked the band to perform at the basketball Pink Night. Advertising First we assigned an Advertising Committee. The chairman for this committee was Katie Parsons. This committees tasks were to notify the local newspaper and create flyers to publicize upcoming Pink Night events. Times, dates, and locations were submitted to the newspaper to inform the community. The committee created flyers to hang up around the school and local business before each Pink Night. (Appendices B, C, D) Information Booth The Information Booth Committee was fulfilled by the FCCLA chapter. The committees task was to have a booth display at each Pink Night. The committee created sign-up sheets for FBLA and FCCLA members to work a shift at the booth. The committee sold cookies and set up a station for face painting. Breast cancer pins and hair barrettes were made by FBLA member, Cassidy Cook. This student has her own business making fashion accessories. Half the proceeds made from selling her pins and barrettes were donated to benefiting local breast cancer prevention services.
T-Shirt Another committee that was organized was the t-shirt committee. Taylor Fischer was the chairman of the t-shirt committee. The t-shirt committee contacted a business to design the t-shirt, created order forms, passed out order forms to the student body, and distributed the t-shirts. (Appendix E) Sugar Creek Design, located in Joplin, Missouri, designed the Pink Night t-shirt. The black t-shirt was designed with the slogan Turn Up the Pink arranged around a football, volleyball, basketball, and a cheer symbol. Located in the center of the arrangement was a breast cancer symbol. On the back of the t-shirt, the sponsors were listed. A deadline schedule was created for each sales offerings of shirts for ensuring shirts would be delivered prior to the events.
Basketball Information Booth Left to Right: Tabitha Jackson, Olivia Jennings, and Alex Johnson
Sales and Donation Finally a Sales and Donation Committee was set in place. The chairman for this committee was Kylie Ackerman. This committee was in charge of keeping track of all sales throughout the time frame of the Pink Nights, delivering the sponsor letter to local businesses and organizations, and also delivering thank-you letters to the businesses that contributed. Members of FBLA and FCCLA helped deliver the sponsor letters and thank-you letters to businesses and organizations.
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services. (Appendix F) Many businesses showed eagerness to support Pink Night by making donations. Businesses were not the only sponsors encouraged to donate, organizations from the school also helped to achieve our Pink Night goals. Altogether, 42 businesses and organizations throughout the area donated fifty to one hundred dollars to our project donation total. (Appendix G) We also had a generous donation of $100 from an individual bringing our total from donations to $2,160. Our corporate sponsors played a major part in achieving our profit goals. To show our appreciation each sponsor was listed on the back of our t-shirt and Pink Night thank you certificates with handwritten notes on the backs were delivered as well. (Appendix H) Student Body The Appleton City Schools student body (K-12) is made up about 325 students. By involving our sport teams, band, clubs, and Pup Squad we were able to include a majority of the school. Several students decked out their vehicles in pink the afternoon of the volleyball Pink Night. Those that took part paraded through town after school showing off their pinked out cars and getting the community excited about the volleyball Pink Night. There was an entry fee of $3.00 per car and all the participants had a pizza party later that week.
Ethan Mitts Pinked-Out Car for the Car Rally
Pink jerseys were purchased for the volleyball players to wear the night of the volleyball Pink Night. We will be able to have the jerseys for the team to wear at the
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volleyball Pink Night for years to come, but from the purchase of the jerseys we were unable to improve our contribution this year. The basketball teams wore pink socks, which were purchased by the students from a breast cancer awareness supporter website. Tattoos were purchased for the basketball boys.
purchased the Pink Night t-shirts as a uniform for the 25 elementary students who took part in Pup Squad.
Between involving the sports teams, having a car rally, and entertainment from the Pup Squad and varsity band, the Pink Night events involved 90% of the student body.
Varsity Volleyball Team
Attendance On Friday, September 21, the stands at the football game were full around 400 people in attendance, as well as the stands at the volleyball game on Tuesday, October 16 with an approximate attendance of 250. On Tuesday, January 29, there was a great turnout the stands were packed with about 800 people. The crowd was dressed in their Pink Night t-shirts or pink to show their support.
By including our band members we had entertainment for our crowd at the basketball Pink Night. Also providing entertainment were the cheerleaders. In working with the cheerleaders, we further improved our student involvement. Our cheerleaders hosted a Pup Squad which allows elementary students to attend a cheer camp to practice cheers and a dance. The Pup Squad then performed before the varsity girls basketball game, during the night of the basketball Pink Night. The cheerleaders
Pup Squad cheering for the capacity crowd during the Basketball Pink Night.
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our booth to learn more about our fundraising efforts. Several schools in our conference have contacted us and formed Pink Nights after our Pink Night promotions. Not only have we reached our community and raised awareness, but our efforts have impacted several other communities as well. Distribution of Funds Cancer Coaches is a non-profit organization set up with the idea to provide funds to people in our immediate areas. We hope to have this set up within the next six months. We feel like this is a very achievable goal to reach. Cancer Coaches will be headed by a board of directors as stated in the articles of organization. The 2012-13 Pink Night project raised over $5,031.90 in gross revenues. After expenses, the net revenue is $2,528.33. Although we increased gross revenues by 15%, expenses were increased due to the purchases of volleyball uniforms and a pink volleyball. Although these expenses lowered net revenues, these items can be utilized in future years without additional expense. (Appendix I)
Why We Wear Pink Poster Board displayed at the Information Booth during Pink Night games
Not only was our community affected, but the opposing teams fans became aware of our efforts to fight breast cancer and the passion we have to help those with this disease. Students from other schools visited
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Evidence of Publicity
Publicity was very important with Pink Night. Before going through with our project, we received approval from the administrators, who were satisfied with our plan; therefore, we were able to continue our planning. Informing the community about Pink Night was the Advertising Committees main task. One of our goals was to have as many people involved as possible. Times, dates, locations, and details were submitted to the local newspaper and the Little Apple, which is a weekly publication that is available to the community by e-mail or at local businesses. Four separate articles were created for the newspaper and Little Apple. The first article was focused on informing the community on plans for Pink Night. The article explained that we would be holding a Football and Volleyball Pink Night, as well as a Basketball Pink Night. The articles were submitted before each Pink Night. To further publicize the event FBLA and FCCLA members delivered flyers to each business in the area, and flyers were also posted around the school promoting the Pink Night events as well as decorating bulletin boards.
School Bulletin Board located in the High School Commons
basketball Pink Night. The 42 Pink Night sponsors, the varsity band, basketball teams, Bobbie Caswell, and anyone else who helped make Pink Night possible were thanked. Those in attendance were asked to visit the Pink Night booth over in the corner. The Pup Squad was then welcomed to perform. (Appendix J)
Evaluation
Upon completing the 2012-2013 Pink Night events the Pink Night Committee talked about the overall success. The intended goals were reached this year and the committee was very pleased with the involvement from others. Money was raised to support in local breast cancer prevention services and there was great participation from our school and community. The Pink Night Committee talked about improvements or additions that could be made such as getting the local businesses to participate on Pink Night events by having workers where pink. Also discussed was extending our Pink Nights by including the Montrose softball team, which is our cooperative sport with a nearby school. The committee would like to purchase pink basketballs for the games next year as well.
The Advertising Committee chairman, Katie Parsons, gave a presentation at the basketball Pink Night before the varsity girls game. She welcomed everyone to the fifth annual Pink Night and the first annual
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Works Cited
American Cancer Society. (2011). Survellance Research. Retrieved Jan. 15, 2013 American Cancer Socity. (2012). Cancer Facts and Figures. Retrieved Jan. 15, 2013
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Appendix
Appendix A: Timeline Appendix B: News Releases Appendix C: News Brief Appendix D: Flyer Appendix E: T-Shirt Order Form Appendix F: Letter to Donors Appendix G: Donor List Appendix H: Thank-You Certificate Appendix I: Financial Summary Appendix J: Speech
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Appendix A
Pink Night Committee formed
September 5, 2012
Sub committees formed Theme and dates approved
September 6, 2012
Sugar Creek Designs contacted for t-shirt design
September 10,2012
Sponsor letters delivered to businesses Local Newspaper was contacted
October 3, 2012
Volleyball Pink Night Booth workers signed up Pink jerseys ordered for volleyball players
October 8, 2012
Local Newspaper was contacted
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Appendix B
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Appendix C
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Appendix D
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Appendix E
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Appendix F
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Appendix G
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Appendix H
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Appendix I
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Appendix J
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