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what is “sunny’s spotlights”?
Sunny’s Spotlights is a corner where CNH recognizes the clubs and/or individuals that stand
out and go above and beyond in the areas of service and fundraising. Stay tuned for the next
issue to see if your school is featured!
Serv ic e: UC B erk eley
Ken Tao
UC Berkeley
4 AM. That’s right. UC Berkeley Circle K members
woke up that early (or stayed up that late) to gather
at a bus stop by campus at 4 AM to do service at Lake
Merritt. The event? Out of the Darkness Walk, a one-ofa-kind event that touches the hearts of Americans all
around the world. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the sponsoring organization, a person dies by suicide in the United States every
15 minutes and it estimated that a suicide attempt is
made every minute. The Out of the Darkness Walks raise
money to provide funds for research on methods to
prevent suicide as well as to increase awareness about
suicide prevention. At the event, the fourteen of us Circle K members joined several other volunteers from the
community to help out with a variety of tasks including
setting up and manning the food tables, registering volunteers, collecting donations, giving out raffle tickets,
cheering on all the walkers, and cleaning up when the
event ended! All the attendees had a great time helping
out and the event coordinators were extremely appreciative of our help. It was fantastic event and we looked
forward to coming back next year!
Fu n d ra is in g: E l Ca m in o Colleg e
Joseph Montes
El Camino College
Have you thought about holding a fundraiser at a restaurant or a quick grab-and-go snack? What if one offers more percentage? Then maybe you can get higher
donation from them, right? Well, that depends on who
they accept donations from and if they require to bring
a flyer or not. I am writing this to share some thoughts
and compare these two great fundraising experiences
we had.
We have had a fundraisers at Veggie Grill and Yogurtland. There were some big differences between what
both had offered. Yogurtland offered to give us 15%, and
Veggie Grill had offered to give us a whopping 50%. Veggie Grill was on Thursday, June 21 from 5pm to 10pm. Yogurtland was on Wednesday, June 20 from 4pm to 7pm.
So far Veggie Grill has more hours and percent to give,
but the main difference that separated them was how
from who they would get the percentage from to donate to us. With Veggie Grill, you needed the flyer or had
to tell them you were there for the fundraiser. Then for
Yogurtland they gave us 15% from everyone who made a
purchase within the time frame.
Now, that you know the percentage, hours of fundraiser, and from whose purchase, which do you think
gave a bigger contribution? We were really shocked to
find out that it was Yogurtland with a bigger contribution!
After some thought, there were some possible reasons why we th