Fundraising Update

Our efforts to raise money for the functional skills program has pretty much come to a standstill.  However, we did get about 450 dollars in donations from my friends and friends of friends (Now my new friends!!)  There are a lot of good people out there willing to chip in on a good cause!!

I have decided to approach this program in a different way.  Instead of buying the lab package with 20 ipod touch, I am going to go through the county bid list and buy ipod's and then buy parts of the program.  We can pick and choose the parts of the program that I think would be most beneficial to my students and then add as we get more money.  I am going to try to start with 2 ipod's and one part of the program and then buy more as we can!!

We did raise about 200 dollars with our Alabama/Auburn Coin drop and button sales.  This money went into our Special Olympics Account, so we can continue going to our competitions. Each time we go to an event we spend between 80 and 160 dollars, depending on where the event is held and who drives us.  Sometimes our work instructor, Mrs. Harris, is able to drive us and since she is being paid as a teacher, we are not charged for a driver. However, if we need a bus driver, it cost us 11:40 an hour to pay her, from the time we leave the school to the time we return.  That adds up very quickly.  We also have to pay $1.25 a mile for gas.  When it is 18 miles to the interstate from the school, you can see that mileage adds up VERY quickly.  For that reason, we need to continue raising more money for Special Olympics or find a company to sponsor us. Maybe you know  a business owner that could adopt our class??

We also have another project I would like to pursue, which is a photography program.  I have submitted a project o Donorschoose.org.  Right now, as one of Oprah's favorite things, Bing is giving people a $5.00 donation code that they can use to donate $5.00 to the project of their choice. You can get to this at
http://www.bing.com/gives/Default1.aspx#fbid=F2Aw1g8iHz5&wom=false  click on help now and follow the instructions to get you code.  Then you can find our project by searching by zipcode 35023.  When I do that our project is the first one to come up.  It is listed as "life in Pictures" Go get your 5 dollars code and donate toward this project!! 40 codes can go towards this project.