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to enhance children’s learning with creative resources from the arts community.
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Ideas for a Successful RFA
Tips for Building Community Support
Approach friends of the school... local businesses, churches, community organizations, neighbors and grandparents and introduce the mission of the Run, see if they have any ideas of how they can help out. Participating schools may be able to increase the dollar success of their individual Runs by involving corporate and community partners in their projects. Here are a few ideas for involving the community:
Line up snacks. These can really be a treat…think about getting fruit, cookies, juice, or popsicles that can be handed out to the kids after the Run. For example, a Burgerville in Newberg helped out a local school by handing out lemonade and fresh baked cookies after their Run. This maybe the perfect opportunity to involve your neighborhood grocer.
| Recruit adult runners. Ask at local businesses for volunteers to take Sponsor Sheets, collect pledges and actually run with students on the day of the Run at your school.
| Rally classroom sponsors. Enlist your corporate volunteers as sponsors of an entire classroom.
| Solicit matching contributions. Ask a business to consider a contribution to match 1:1 the amount that your students raise in the Run For The Arts and add that contribution to your school's account. If matching the entire school's funds is too much commitment for your partner, have them consider matching just a classroom or two.
| Seek out additional prizes. In the past, some schools have enlisted the involvement of their neighborhood merchants with product donations to be used as prizes or rewards -- in addition to the prize structure provided for by Young Audiences. These prizes are arranged by your school and are only donated to your school.
| Contact neighborhood newsletters and Internet newsgroups. Many neighborhoods have small newsletters published by volunteers and/or online newsgroups. See what you can find. Get the community talking about the Run!
| Advertise in the school newsletter. Write a little something to go out to families in the school's newsletter. Get folks talking about the Run!
| Make the Run a memorable event. Think about other ways to make the Run day a festival – are there any local musicians in your school family who would come down and jazz up the day?
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