Number of Participants: 34
Hours Donated: 30
Value of Time Served: $8,619
Event Amount Raised: $10,000
Event Type: Health & Medicine
Sport: Girls Volleyball
School: North Salem Middle/ High School
Date: October 10, 2019
Location:
230 June Road
North Salem, NY
USA
About:
North Salem Volleyball’s carwash is an event run every year to raise money for the Side-Out Foundation. This year JV & Varsity raised approximately $2,500 at the carwash and $10,000 during the month of October. The carwash makes the community aware of the teams fundraising goals and progress. Later in the year, Varsity and JV played their Dig Pink match verse Putnam Valley. The day prior to the game players stayed after practice to decorate the high school, turning the hallways and windows pink. Students were encouraged through the team’s social media accounts to wear pink during the day in support of the volleyball program. JV and Varsity spread the word about the game by posting on their personal social media accounts along with the team’s social media accounts. Teachers and faculty also had the opportunity to buy T-shirts for that school day, all profits of the shirts went to the team’s fundraising page.
Later in October North Salem Volleyball gave back to one of its own. A member of our JV team lost her mother to breast cancer. She was ecstatic to find out how much the program does every year to raise money for breast cancer research. She asked the JV & Varsity players to participate in the Avon Breast Cancer walk as she had a team walking in memory of her mother. The teams decided to do more than just walk with her. On the night of the Dig Pink Match, both teams presented our teammate with $500 towards her walk in memory of her mother. This gift demonstrated how the program wanted to give to others within our community
Those activities were in school, but the program also fundraised online. Through the Side-Out Foundation, the JV and Varsity team set up its own online direct donation page. Within this page, each player made their own personalized sub-page. Each player had a goal of raising $100 and many surpassed this goal. By going beyond our initial goal the program was able to double the amount raised the year prior.
Throughout the month of October, North Salem Volleyball raised a total of $10,000 and will continue to raise money through the online fundraising page.
https://giving.side-out.org/campaigns/15906#/