Help!! I volunteered to organize box social fundraiser

[letfuller]

I volunteered my group of high school sophomores to organize the box social. It hasn't been a successful venture the past few years and I have never been the organizer. Anyone out there attended one and what is the best way to go about this? Do the girl's also need to pay an entry fee for submitting a box? Or is is strictly the boys bidding? I just don't know!!!!


Thanks


~Linda

 

[clh2]

Just a thought - I have never heard of a box social - maybe you would want to explain the general concept!

Of course - having been involved with the PTA for several years now - if something hasn't worked well for a couple of years - why not try something else - and give this idea a rest for a couple of years - in which case it will be "new again."

 

[Karel]

I think I kind of know what a box social is... the girls decorate a box and then pack a lunch in it and then the boys bid on the box, thereby winning the right to eat lunch with the girl who made it.

Close?

Anyway, I've organized a lot of things. First, communication is the key - communication with those organizing and those who are coming. Make sure you tell people what's expected of them and when. Do it many many times. People need to be reminded constantly. Remember that people can't read your mind and what you think is obvious is not for others.

Maybe you can have a theme? All the boxes have to be decorate with a certain item or idea in mind?

I would charge girls to submit boxes - that way you'll be assured that they are bringing them.

Is this a school fundraiser?

 

[letfuller]

Sorry. I should have provided more info.

Yes, girls are to decorate boxes and the boys are to pool their money together to bid on it. That is how the money is raised. I think this was in the musical, "Okalahoma".


I have never hosted this, and just vaguely know that 'rules'. Just wondering.


Thanks

~Linda

 

[mommytotwo]

Has this type of event happened before in your school? Maybe you can ask previous organizers how they had handled it and ask them for tips.

 

[tar heel]

I have a suspicion that the reason it hasn't been successful is b/c its day as long passed -- I just don't think a lot of 21st century high school kids are going to find it very appealing. The concept is so dated -- only the girls cook, only the boys spend $. In books/movies, it seems like the boy who was too afraid to talk to the girl would buy the box, so he could be near her, and the girl would be hoping the boy she was pining for would buy her box. Teenagers today are a bit more forward!

One of my kids is a high school sophomore, and he would think I had sprouted an extra head if I suggested this to him.