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INDEPENDENT EVENTS • Even more ideas! — Bike-a-thon — Dance-a-thon — Walk-a-thon — Chess-a-thon — Eat-a-thon — Or even a skateboard-a-thon • The Holidays Holidays are great times to tell people about Kids Helping Kids. You can create your own holiday mailing and send it out to everyone you know telling them about Kids Helping Kids asking them for donations. Kids Helping Kids will also be making holiday card sets that you can order and sell to your friends, family, or others in your community. We’ll be happy to send them to you. • Gift-wrapping at local stores Ask local stores if you can gift-wrap and take a small donation for each wrapping you do. Don’t forget to have Kids Helping Kids Brochures on hand and tell everyone why you’re doing it while you’re wrapping. Try bookstores, toy stores, kids clothing stores and music stores. But practice wrapping, or get someone to teach you how. You want to be invited back next year! • Kids Helping Kids Parties Lately, we’ve seen a lot of kids doing amazing things at important occasions i.e., sweet sixteen’s, birthday parties, confirmations, graduation parties, bar and bat mitzvahs: they’ve been asking family and friends to donate to Kids Helping Kids in lieu of gifts. •You’ve done a great job! Follow up with us about how your event went. Be sure you’ve documented it... taken a lot of pictures, written articles etc. You might be featured on our website. • A Very Important Note Your enthusiasm is terrific. However, you need to be careful about certain things you do when you’re trying to raise money for a good cause. Depending on your age, you may need permission and supervision to do anything we’ve suggested. If you’re holding an event somewhere you’ll almost definitely need an adult to help you with permission, rent, if any, parking issues, insurance etc. When taking pictures that you will be using in press releases be sure to get written permission from the people you are photographing (see sample “Model Release”). Copies MUST be forwarded to headquarters. eventMODEL.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
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