Girls Scout Leader
<font color="red">Brave And Fearless Leader Willin
- Joined
- Nov 10, 2001
- Messages
- 808
You probabally know that I am taking my girl Scout troop to WDW in June. WE had approval for the trip ages ago. The problems arise when we try to do fund raising for it.
Summer was tough for us because the council hasdetermined that we cannot fund raise during the United Way's efforts. Also, not til our cookie campain ends in Dec. So, no fundraising during Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, til Dec. 20th.
Now they have a new committee that meets once a month to approve fund raisers. Everything MUST be approved first. You must have your paper work in to them before this meeting and the activity cannot take place until one month AFTER this committee approves it. So you really have to have your ducks in a row way ahead of time. This paper work is to be turned in to our Service Unit Director first,reviews it, checks for errors, who submitts it to the Membership specialist, who them take it to this committe.
Last Dec 7, I turned in this paperwork to the Service Unit Director for permission to so a Sub Sandwich Sale. (This has been done alot in the area, and it actually easy...take orders for a couple of different Sub sadwiches at area business and factories, assemble them on a Thursday night and deliver them for thier lunch time Fri)
I had it down to have this from Jan 16 - 23because the girls do not have school on the 23rd for deliveries. After the committe met on Dec 19th, it was determinted that the dates were not far enough ahead. The membership specialist told me that it could not begin til after the 19th of Jan...30 days out from the approval. I said, ok, we will live with it. Put it down for the 20- 29th. The Girls passed out the order forms to almost 40 business on the 20th and 21st. Now I get nasty e-mails from the membership specialist that we are breaking the rules, that this sale wsa not officially approved yet but may be at NEXT weeks meeting! If she knew that it would have to go back to the committee til NEXt week, why did she tell me in Dec that we could begin LAST monday! She si threatening to turn me in to the council and have this whole trip stopped unless we just pay cash!!
By now we already have orders for almost 100 sandwiches, have the ingredients ordered, the health dept has approved our assembly place, and more orders are pouring in. Stop it? But she said we could do it after the 19th!
There is no reasoning withthe council on this. I have tried to get help from them before. They just call the membership specialist ans have everything refered back to her. Last time I had a problem, she and I e-mailed instead of talking on the phone, so I ended up printing it off and sending it to council when they said I could not prove the probelms I was having. But still, nothing was done.
If I could jsut figure out a way to earn this $$ without going through them. It seems sneaky, but I have considered doing some of this without advertising that it's for Girl Scouts, but this is a small town and everyone knows anyway. We ahve $1800 to go, total for 6 girls. WE have our airline tickeckets bought and piad for and the ground transportation. WE have $114 per girl for all 6 nights at Shades of Green and $240 for park tickets. We do have $400 right now. These prices are the best that I could do, and I cannot trim anything else. This is not including extra food money we ahd hoped to raise at the end, and they'd like to do a charector breakfast at Crystal Palace. That's it! I am seriously considering asking for area clubs like we have the Lion's, etc, for a dontaion, but I was hoping to earn most of this ourselves and save that as a last resort.
Whew. Rant over. And I know that nobody has miracles for us, but just writing gets this all off my chest.
Thanks for listening.
Summer was tough for us because the council hasdetermined that we cannot fund raise during the United Way's efforts. Also, not til our cookie campain ends in Dec. So, no fundraising during Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, til Dec. 20th.
Now they have a new committee that meets once a month to approve fund raisers. Everything MUST be approved first. You must have your paper work in to them before this meeting and the activity cannot take place until one month AFTER this committee approves it. So you really have to have your ducks in a row way ahead of time. This paper work is to be turned in to our Service Unit Director first,reviews it, checks for errors, who submitts it to the Membership specialist, who them take it to this committe.
Last Dec 7, I turned in this paperwork to the Service Unit Director for permission to so a Sub Sandwich Sale. (This has been done alot in the area, and it actually easy...take orders for a couple of different Sub sadwiches at area business and factories, assemble them on a Thursday night and deliver them for thier lunch time Fri)
I had it down to have this from Jan 16 - 23because the girls do not have school on the 23rd for deliveries. After the committe met on Dec 19th, it was determinted that the dates were not far enough ahead. The membership specialist told me that it could not begin til after the 19th of Jan...30 days out from the approval. I said, ok, we will live with it. Put it down for the 20- 29th. The Girls passed out the order forms to almost 40 business on the 20th and 21st. Now I get nasty e-mails from the membership specialist that we are breaking the rules, that this sale wsa not officially approved yet but may be at NEXT weeks meeting! If she knew that it would have to go back to the committee til NEXt week, why did she tell me in Dec that we could begin LAST monday! She si threatening to turn me in to the council and have this whole trip stopped unless we just pay cash!!
By now we already have orders for almost 100 sandwiches, have the ingredients ordered, the health dept has approved our assembly place, and more orders are pouring in. Stop it? But she said we could do it after the 19th!
There is no reasoning withthe council on this. I have tried to get help from them before. They just call the membership specialist ans have everything refered back to her. Last time I had a problem, she and I e-mailed instead of talking on the phone, so I ended up printing it off and sending it to council when they said I could not prove the probelms I was having. But still, nothing was done.
If I could jsut figure out a way to earn this $$ without going through them. It seems sneaky, but I have considered doing some of this without advertising that it's for Girl Scouts, but this is a small town and everyone knows anyway. We ahve $1800 to go, total for 6 girls. WE have our airline tickeckets bought and piad for and the ground transportation. WE have $114 per girl for all 6 nights at Shades of Green and $240 for park tickets. We do have $400 right now. These prices are the best that I could do, and I cannot trim anything else. This is not including extra food money we ahd hoped to raise at the end, and they'd like to do a charector breakfast at Crystal Palace. That's it! I am seriously considering asking for area clubs like we have the Lion's, etc, for a dontaion, but I was hoping to earn most of this ourselves and save that as a last resort.
Whew. Rant over. And I know that nobody has miracles for us, but just writing gets this all off my chest.
Thanks for listening.
