Our events have and will range from well attended school wide Fall Festivals, made from scratch bake sales (including our upcoming Thanksgiving pie & cranberry relish sale - can you say homemade crust! YUM!!!), coffee shops, and craft sales. Until students have established themselves and their business is self sufficient, they need start-up materials for marketing, and basic equipment and supplies to run events.
We wish to create a program that will teach the full spectrum of a business plan with a goal of financing their end of year community trip which many of our families could not afford otherwise. This will involve planning each fundraiser, assigning jobs, running & creating all aspects of the the event they choose, and finally assessing its effectiveness with simple costs vs. income accounting.
Students will need art supplies to market their products. They need color copy paper to create flyers, and items to make posters like poster board, stencils, card stock and colorful markers. They also need equipment for their coffee and bake shops. Large urns which both percolate and keep coffee and hot chocolate warm are pricey, but essential. Carafes for cream, sugar dispensers, cups, and tablecloths help the coffee shop running smoothly and teach professionalism. While we have a lot of kitchen equipment, peeling apples for dozens of pies is time consuming without specialty tools like apple peelers. With all these thing they will have the tools they need to learn how marketing makes a difference in sales, how to run their events professionally, and afterward they will learn how to apply basic accounting to assess their success.
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Our events have and will range from well attended school wide Fall Festivals, made from scratch bake sales (including our upcoming Thanksgiving pie & cranberry relish sale - can you say homemade crust! YUM!!!), coffee shops, and craft sales. Until students have established themselves and their business is self sufficient, they need start-up materials for marketing, and basic equipment and supplies to run events.
We wish to create a program that will teach the full spectrum of a business plan with a goal of financing their end of year community trip which many of our families could not afford otherwise. This will involve planning each fundraiser, assigning jobs, running & creating all aspects of the the event they choose, and finally assessing its effectiveness with simple costs vs. income accounting.
Students will need art supplies to market their products. They need color copy paper to create flyers, and items to make posters like poster board, stencils, card stock and colorful markers. They also need equipment for their coffee and bake shops. Large urns which both percolate and keep coffee and hot chocolate warm are pricey, but essential. Carafes for cream, sugar dispensers, cups, and tablecloths help the coffee shop running smoothly and teach professionalism. While we have a lot of kitchen equipment, peeling apples for dozens of pies is time consuming without specialty tools like apple peelers. With all these thing they will have the tools they need to learn how marketing makes a difference in sales, how to run their events professionally, and afterward they will learn how to apply basic accounting to assess their success.
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