This weekend (March 9-10) marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. Be sure to SPRING FORWARD and set your clocks one hour ahead before you go to bed on Saturday night.
Prom … a fun celebration in the spring that traditionally involves a dance event among juniors and seniors. Usually the junior class hosts the senior prom and so the junior class would be the target audience for the fundraiser.
Some expenses and things to consider when discussing
fundraising for an upcoming prom:
venue - at school or a local venue (i.e. country club, hotel, etc)
decorations - if at the high school (gym) or commons area these can be more extensive
flowers or large arrangements in school colors
balloons (archway for senior presentation)
food - snacks, punch, etc. (budget a cost per person)
music DJ (hired person to run the event or someone from the school A/V teacher)
invitations
/ printed flyers / materials
So in a group where there are 250 seniors - that cost might end up to be $20-$25 per person to cover decorations, program, food, venue rental, invitations, etc. So that budget could range from $5000 - $6250. In a market where the coupon book retails for $25 that’s 400 books needed to hit the $5000 budget.
Who do you contact?
Junior Student Council (STUCO) sponsor (teacher)
Front office to find out who handles prom or coordinates it
PTO/PTA if its a 5th grade or 8th
grade dance (lower grade version of prom)
Some schools have a “formal dance” or other terms instead of Prom.
Re-signs for Spring ‘24 and Fall ‘24
Continue to work on any
groups that have not run (yet) and get them committed for either this Spring ‘24 or next Fall ‘24. Make sure all of your paperwork is completed and emailed into grouprelations@savearound.com with a copy to sales@savearound.com
Profit Checks
Help us help you manage expectations for your groups! Group profit checks may only be submitted after returns/payments are received and processed. Once requested, these are processed weekly and are submitted to accounting each Monday. Please allow 2-3 weeks for profit checks to be calculated, processed, approved, generated and mailed out. If you have any questions about profit checks, please email grouprelations@savearound.com.
FOLD
If you work the F-O-L-D approach, you can do some quick things that are important that will help you continue to be productive even in a quick 15 minute timeframe.
F - follow up - do you have contracts that need to be finalized? Reach out & follow up. O - organize - clean up your desk, file paperwork, make a new file folder, sort mail, etc. L - leads or letters - search for 3 new leads per day and/or write 3 thank you letters D - decision makers - search and/or reach out to 3 decision makers for Summer & Fall
March generally means
the beginning of Spring. Here are more fun facts about March:
March birthstone is aquamarine and the zodiac signs of Pisces and Aries.
March 20th is the vernal equinox with a 50-50 split of day and night.
Ramadan, Islam holy month, begins in March (sunrise to sunset fast is observed).
Pi Day is March 14th and St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th.
Fanny Pack Day is March 11th; Earmuff day 13th; and Panda Day 16th.
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