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Learning from Those Who Went Before
What Other Pilgrims Did to Raise Funds
Many
young pilgrims scratch their heads wondering what they can do to raise
funds to attend World Youth Day. (And so do a good number of loving
parents!) The fact is, that when a youth wishes to go, and puts forth
efforts to raise the funds, he or she always succeeds. So that means
two things: 1. strong effort, and 2. some good ideas on how to make
those efforts bear good fruit.
So Fr. Ward asked the Trailblazers on several trips, with you, the fund-raising-pilgrim, in mind, "How did you secure funds for this trip?"
Below are some results, and Trailblazers offers this with the
hope that you, too can benefit, can brainstorm, can make use of at
least some of these ideas:
After pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the responses were:
- We
received a scholarship thanks to Fr. Paul & we worked
to pay off the rest
- My
parents paid for ½ the price while I babysat to earn the rest. I was also
given money by family members
- My
parents paid for it (4)
- Loans
(1)
- It was
a miracle
- I
worked part time at a second job
- Fundraising,
bottle driving, etc.
- My dad
paid
- Parents
and grandparents.
- Cash,
by working on my own
- Parents/Grandparents
- Scholarship
- Bottle
drives
- Scholarship,
odd jobs, parents
- Parish
helped
- Graduation
money
After World Youth Day 2005 in Germany, the responses were:
(alphabetical order)
- Bake sales
- Bowling fund raisers
- Bottle drive ($0.10 MI refunds)
- Candy bar sales
- Car washes
- Craft shows/sales
- Cut back on expenses
- [Extra] job (or summer job)
- Festival booths
- Fundraising/Donations
- Garage sales
- Graduation money
- Knights of Columbus
- Letters to parishioners
- Making rosaries
- Matching donations
- Parent(s)/Family
- Parish breakfasts (pancakes)
- Parish dinners
- Parish support/donations
- Payments by instalments
- Raffle
- Restaurant days (sponsored)
- Rummage sales
- Sales (ongoing) various
- Saved job money
- Savings
- Second collections at parish
- Scholarship
- From
college (the exact response was "school scholarship overflow"
- From the Archdiocese of Detroit
- Sold Christmas Poinsettias
- Solicited businesses
- Sponsors
- Stock sales
- Tax refund
Contact us:
Editor of The Compass - compasseditor@trailblazerswyd.org
Trailblazers Secretary-
secretary@trailblazerswyd.org
Father Paul Ward: Trailblazers Director -
director@trailblazerswyd.org
810-724-1135 www.trailblazerswyd.org
Mailing Address: Trailblazers Youth Pilgrimages, 700 Maple Vista, Imlay City, MI 48444