Fundraising
National Girl Scout Cookie Day – Pass the Milk!
It all started as a simple little cookie sale by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1917. Now, almost a century later, the Girl Scout Cookie fundraiser is the largest girl-led enterprise in the world, with 200 million boxes of Samoas, Do-Si-Dos, Thin Mints and the like raising $790 million each year. To celebrate Read more…
Traveling With “Flat Stanley”
When I was on a summer tour of England in 1995, one of my adult travelers, a parent and a fellow teacher, pulled a plush stuffed bird out of her suitcase after we arrived in London. At her elementary school, any faculty member who was going on a trip had to pack the school mascot Read more…
Most Successful and Unique Fundraisers
To see my group’s more traditional fundraisers, read Part 1 Supporting a Local Business This year we were looking for a new fundraiser to add to our list. In these tough economic times we knew that people wouldn’t buy just anything. We wanted to sell something that people normally use or consume on a daily Read more…
Concession Stands, Sporting Events – Fundraising Ideas
In my latest blog, I wrote about one of the most dreaded yet important aspects of organizing and leading student travel; fundraising. When it comes to fundraising, I try to focus more on the quality of the fundraiser rather than the quantity of fundraisers. I just don’t believe in saturating the community with an overabundance Read more…
Preparing For Fundraising – Start Today!
Planning a successful trip is a lot of work. Anybody that has ever completed one knows that the rewards afterward more than make up for the time and energy put in at the beginning. Fundraising takes up the most time and energy for me. I teach in a rural community of roughly 7,000 people and Read more…
Tipping On Your EF Tour
My first EF tour, in March 1994, was a 10-day tour to England called “King Arthur’s Britain.” Even with a group size of 29, I was able to get a private bus for that tour and direct flights to London. I must have been living right back in those days to get that kind of Read more…
Flamingo Flocking For Travel
By Sandy Norman | EF Girl Scouts Group Leader Sandy began her travels with EF Tours in 2008 as a chaperone for the Girl Scout winners of EF’s Global Citizen Scholarship Contest. Since then she has led two EF tours for girls throughout her Girl Scout council, has two more planned for 2012. She also Read more…
Planning Your EF Tour
Today is my 294th day prior to my departure for my 2012 spring break tour to England and Scotland. I started recruiting for this tour in August 2010. During the summer, I am going to start recruiting for my 2013 spring break tour to Japan and my June 2013 History: WWII and the Western Front Read more…
Fundraising For Your EF Tour
Need help saving money for an upcoming trip? We have plenty of fundraising ideas supplied by EF travelers. Here are a few:
Fundraising Tips for Group Leaders
When I was a high school junior in the mid-1970s, I was selected to be a Girls’ State delegate. That honor came with a request from the American Legion Auxiliary to sell artificial poppies assembled by patients in the local Veterans’ Hospital. Because my father was a disabled Vietnam War veteran, I was more than Read more…
