When Maria DeMaio, CVC member and Senior Accounting Manager for Fletcher-Thompson, Inc. was thinking about how to raise money to adopt children for the Back to School Clothes for Kids she asked her Special Event Committee to come up with some ideas.Patti Deer, FT committee member, came up with the idea to set aside three Fridays and do something different on each one. The first Friday was “hat day” the next was “shorts day” and the third Friday was “tacky tourist day”! Everybody was really happy to pay $2.00 for the opportunity and support the kids and wear some fun stuff.
This picture is a group who dressed up for the “”tacky tourist day”! I think you can see they had some real fun!
Fletcher-Thompson has adopted two children and will be at Irving School on August 27th at 2pm to meet their adopted children. They will get to see first hand the kids open the box and see everything that was personally bought for them!
As Maria said, “It was a fun way to raise money for the Back to School Kids.”
Please share how your company is participating in the 2009 Back to School Clothes for Kids Program and send along a picture! Share your idea! You might inspire another company to do the same project and copy it (best form of flattery) or put their on spin on it.
Just think about that Thursday August 27th when the Irving School gym will be filled with laughter and smiles from 212 ecstatic children. They never would have all of these special things for school if it wasn’t for you!
I look forward to hearing from you….patricia.tarasovic@valleyunitedway.org
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