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Looking For Money In
All The Wrong Places?
If so,
what you need is the ultimate fund-raising manual, written by a former
high school speech and theater teacher who raised an annual activity
budget of over $85,000 a year for a career spanning 18 years.
 W. John Schiffermuller sponsored The International
Thespian Society and The National Forensic League at Atlantic High,
Delray Beach, Florida, from 1968 to 1979, and taught speech and theater.
(Before that, he did the same thing at John Marshall High School,
Richmond, Virginia, for the other seven years.) He directed five major
stage productions and a musical in each of those years. He also coached
an active speech and debate program that traveled to competitions all
over Florida in the same period, and took three trips to national
championship tournaments with his state champion students. His two
programs were each among the three largest in the state each of those
years.
For all this effort, John was paid a speech stipend of
$350 annually, and a drama stipend of $300 annually by the Palm Beach
County School Board. Not one cent was given by either the Board or the
school for the expenses involved in drama productions or tournament
attendance. Everything else came out of his pocket, or from donations.
Sound
familiar?
 It became quickly apparent that the usual rounds of bake
sales, car washes, candy sales, etc., were not going to come near
meeting the demands of his program. With the help of students, parents,
and speech/drama coaches from around the state and nation, John began
putting together a manual of unique, inventive, one-of-a-kind
fund-raisers that worked!! Two of them netted over $1,000 in a single
afternoon! Within a year, all program costs were covered, and there was
a balance carried over for the next year’s work.
This
manual is now available for your programs!
The fund-raising projects in this volume were so unique
that people drove from all over South Florida to take part in many of
them, so popular that the Palm Beach Post and the Delray Beach
News-Journal covered more than half these events, whenever they were
held, with stories and photo spreads, so well-attended that local
businesses gave time, personnel, and equipment to make them successful.
 You’ll
meet the same response with fund-raisers like:
- Go Fly A Kite
- Yak and Pack!
- Hit the Road, Kid
- Curse You, Red Baron!
- Clean Up Everyone’s Act
- Scrub-a-Dub-Dub (not a car wash!)
- You’re Mother Dresses You Funny
- If You Want to See Your Kid Again…
- I Love Trash and I’m Not Even Oscar!
- Where’s Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney When You Need Them?
- Gentlemen, Start Your Engines (the most popular and
often-repeated event)
- ... and dozens more.
The
manual will tell you how to stage the event, what you need to prepare
for it, how to promote and advertise it, how to involve parents and
community, and how to capitalize on its success for future events. And
you will make money!
Isn’t it
time the frustration ends for you?
When John resigned to go into private enterprise in 1979
so he could afford to send his own kids to college, as he turned in his
resignation to his surprised Principal, he pointed out the following:
“Sir, in the past 11 years, I have asked repeatedly for
funding for my highly successful speech and drama programs, pointing out
that all the funding went to athletics and that my drama and speech
program enrolled more students during those years than all the athletic
programs combined. I did not get one cent. You once told me, ‘When you
can fill a football stadium with an audience for a play, then you will
get a share of the funding.’ Yet, education is supposed to prepare
students for life, not Friday night entertainment.
“Well, sir, I have done my homework. As we stand here,
in the entire history of this school, athletics has produced exactly
three professional athletes, none of whom are now active. And, as we
stand here, in just the past eleven years of my programs, I now have a
total of 19 former students making a full time career and living in some
aspect of theater, I know of 14 students in law school, 38 of them are
going to be teachers, and God knows how many more are committed to a
career that involves speaking or dramatic ability. Where are your
priorities and responsibilities now?”
If you have ever felt these needs for your program, this
frustration at what was demanded from you that you knew you’d never be
recognized or compensated for – just to do your job as you saw it – it
is time you started making it easier and less expensive for yourself,
and more fun for you and your students.
How To
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W. John Schiffermuller
4336 Toccoa Drive N.W.
Acworth, GA 30101-5646 |
Do you sponsor foreign study travel programs for your
school and students?
Do you sponsor any away-from-school travel, and
find that many of the best students – those that could and should truly
profit by such an experience with you – are from families not able to
bear the financial burden of such travel? These fund-raisers can, and
have for John (former Director of International Education for Palm Beach
County, as well), help those students to make that dream come true.
In addition, if you find it difficult to find and enroll
students in these programs with you, a second manual is available –
The
Recruiting Assistance Manual. It will show you how to use: The company
you travel with * Your fellow travel chaperons/Advisors * Your students
* Your parents * Your classroom * Your school * Your community * The
media * and Yourself to make those dreams come true for all of you. The
price is the same; order both at once and save on the S&H.
Click
Here for a Form to Print and Mail with your Check
© 2004-2005 W. John
Schiffermuller
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