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Relay For Life Fundraising Ideas

Kimberly Reynolds asked:

Here are some fundraising ideas for events to help your team raise funds for Relay Of Life. Most of these can be put together by a single team or in partnership with other groups.

Fundraising Billboard

A unique idea is to put together a fundraising billboard in support of breast cancer research. People pay a reasonable fee, say $100, to add a name to a billboard list honoring women who are struggling with or have the lost the battle with cancer.

Dinner Dance

Put together a fun dinner dance with live music and good food. It could be a formal affair with catered food or a rocking good time accompanied by a pig roast. Use a one price covers all approach, then add a cash bar or wine tasting to raise extra funds.

Fashion Show

Fashion shows are always fun and, if well promoted, can draw hundreds of women. Charge admission and offer lots of other fundraising activities. Add silent auctions for donated items or services such as spa treatments or private lunches with top designers.

Pancake Breakfast

A good location with lots of road signage can really pack them in for a pancake breakfast. Costs are low and opportunities to add-in extras are abundant. Offer raffle tickets, silent auction items, and sell ad space or sponsorships on your placemats.

Mardi Gras Fundraiser

Great parties like Mardi Gras events attract a fun-loving crowd. Book a good band and line up some Cajun food for a buffet. Sell beads, glow necklaces, party hats, etc. Run a cash bar and auction off something big like a trip to New Orleans.

Shop For The Cure

Another good idea is to work with local merchants to put together a special shopping experience aimed at women. Host in a convenient space like a convention center, church meeting hall, or even a shopping mall. Try to get as many items donated as possible while keeping things a win/win for your merchants. Don’t forget to promote it to men also as a good place for gift buying.

Cow Chip Fundraiser

A country-style fundraising event involving raffling $20 chances for winning a $5,000 cash prize. The fun catch is that the winner is determined by where a cow answers nature’s call on squares marked off in a field. Add in live music, barbecue, and family fun activities and you’ve got the makings of a major success on your hands.

Casino Night

Put together a full-fledged casino where adults gamble with play money for a good cause or just make the main event a Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament. Either one will draw a big crowd where you can add extra moneymakers like a buffet dinner, a cash bar, a whiskey tasting, cigar tasting, etc. Look to local merchants for partnerships and publicity.

Summary

Working with other Relay For Life teams allows you to pull off even larger fundraising events. Look to create a fun experience for just adults or hold a family-oriented Saturday afternoon event that offers entertainment to all age groups.

Work with local merchants to expand into offering silent auction items of donated goods and services. And most importantly, work hard to get advance publicity for your Relay For Life event from newspapers, radio, and television.

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Kimberly Joy asked:

In the original “Jojo’s Fashion Show”, we found Jojo un-retiring thanks to Rosalind, her gung-ho daughter. In the next version, “Jojo’s Fashion Show 2: Las Cruces”, players could observe her new fashion-designing job. Unlike its predecessors, Jojo’s Fashion Show 3: World Tour has much more substance to it.

Initially, Rosalind is now an adult, and running a fashion business by herself. For that reason Jojo needs to fill her shoes-a daunting assignment. She goes through a herd of inadequate applicants before discovering a qualified new talent, Haley. Unknown to Jojo, Haley wants dibs on both Jojo’s position, and Rosalind’s beau, to boot!

During Jojo’s Fashion Show 3, you’ll see sights of ten enthralling places, such as Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, and Barcelona.

The basic concept to Jojo’s Fashion Show 3 is easy enough to pick up, but not so easy to get the hang of. You’ll use a trio of models, with a particular mode label above the head of each. In most cases you’ll employ females, but once in a while there will also be male models. Your objective is the coordinating of clothes to suit every style’s requirements. Since this is on the clock, avoid wasting time or you’ll have a model going off in her/his unmentionables. That must not happen! The more you correspond to the styles’ needs, the higher your score and the better your show turns out.

Your routine will be better by far by use of a few power-ups you’re probably acquainted with. Need more time? Buy it thanks to the dazzle power-up. Want to increase the worth of your designs? Try the supermodel power-up. If you need an extra rack of clothes, there’s the shuffle power-up. As well, there are buttons for “matching-outfits” and “swap-style” should you end up in difficulty. Besides such options, there are accessories available to enhance your outfits’ worth, plus, at times you’ll find a complete ensemble to speed things up. Considering all you can do in this game, the possibilities are infinite.

A new development in Jojo’s Fashion Show 3 is that players are allowed to come up with their own designs for any of the included styles. Same as with the basic play format, there are plenty of configurations per style, enabling you to experiment. You’ll never get through the entire set, but have fun trying. With every outfit you get a top, bottom and a pair of shoes. In each case you may choose the primary piece to which you can add color by means of selecting a particular fabric, then the primary format and additional hues.

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Terry Edwards asked:

Japanese Weekend Maternity recognizes that pregnancy changes a woman’s life. From your outlook on life, to your diet, everything takes on a different look with pregnancy. But, with all the changes that takes place, the company is aware that you are still your self.

Japanese Weekend Maternity clothing understands that you still desire the same comfort and style that your regular wardrobe provided for you. Many other manufacturers of clothing for pregnancy neglect to create clothes that are made for a woman who doesn’t want to hide behind extra large clothing.

They offer a full line of clothes that compliment and accentuate the positive in a comfortable fashion.

Stylish and pregnant are two terms that are rarely synonymous with one another. In fact, the two terms rarely meet in the same paragraph. A pregnant woman still wants to feel attractive and this can be very hard in most of the clothing items created for pregnancy. Oversized shirts that have no shape just make things worse. At Japanese Weekend Maternity you will find a selection of clothes designed for looks as well as comfort.

Who says that being comfortable means that you have to look frumpy? I spent my first pregnancy in nothing but sweatpants and oversized shirts. I didn’t want to leave my house because I felt like I was as big as a house. If I would have invested a little more time and energy into my appearance I would have felt much better. Fortunately, I came across Japanese Weekend Maternity clothing.

Things have changed this time around. I may be a mom with another on the way but I am not going to lock myself up in my house. I am not going to dress in my husband’s clothes and I am definitely not committing my self to sweat suits for the next few months. There are too many things to do. Shopping at Japanese Weekend Maternity is one of them.

I found very comfortable clothes to wear in all phases of this pregnancy. I’m glad that I can still move freely and look great too. It is a nice feeling to be able to go out with my toddler in my clothes that I am not embarrassed to wear and not having to feel frumpy about it.

My only regret is not finding out about this clothing line the first time around that I was pregnant. I would have had much more fun during my first pregnancy if I were more comfortable and stylish. If you haven’t heard about Japanese Weekend Maternity I urge you to check them out today, you’ll be glad you did.

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Organic Maternity Wear

Sarah Freeland asked:

You may find yourself asking during pregnancy, if there is really a difference between purchasing organic and non-organic clothing for pregnancy. Well, first and foremost you should understand that, organic cotton farming doesn’t utilize synthetic fertilizers, harmful pesticides, or even other dangerous chemicals. If you are as keen about the environment, as you are to protecting your child’s as well as your own health; you would like to know that the growing of organic cotton, doesn’t poison the soil, environment, or even hurt the health of humans and animals. You may not completely understand, or know that the classic farming of cotton can be harmful to the farmer’s health; so instead an organic farm can help to save the lives of the farm workers, families, wildlife such as birds and fish etc.

Organic farmers aren’t allowed to genetically alter fibers; and anything that has such within the cloth cannot be labeled as true organic material. Organic cotton is produced in natural colors, or they are dyed using low-impact and environment friendly dyes. Remember, making a purchase of even a couple of maternity shirts that are completely organically composed, can help to eliminate one fourth of a pound of the chemicals, that would otherwise be used to produce the same exact sheets when using conventionally farmed cotton.

However the health benefits aren’t the only things that make people want to purchase organic maternity clothes, organic cotton and other materials tend to be far softer and stronger than synthetic materials will ever get. This of course allows for extra comfort, and durability that you expect out of your maternity clothing.

Something that you should keep in mind, is that if you tend to have sensitive skin; washing your own maternity wear, created out of synthetic fibers in even the most environment friendly detergents, still can’t take away all of the irritant of the harmful chemicals. Instead you should opt to purchase organic clothing for your pregnancy, and allow yourself to have an extremely comfortable time during your pregnancy days. Once you have made the decision to make the leap to organic clothing for your pregnancy, you should take a look around this site; as you are sure to find something that can fit even the most alternative of fashions. That is of course, minus all of the harmful chemicals; and the added comfort in knowing you are helping to decrease your environmental footprint.

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Ilse Hagen asked:

Fashion designing is not all fun and glamor, but a little bit of technology can make it so much easier. A good fashion design software (computer aided) can help every type of designer — even amateurs — execute professional-looking designs. Thinking of using one? Here’s a starter kit.

What exactly can a fashion design software can do for you?

Although a computer program will not necessarily make you the next Chloe Dao or the next Santino Rice, it can help you expand your fashion creativity and help you design faster, so you can get more work done.

The best fashion design software allows you to play around with a range of colors, fabrics, and cuts, without necessarily having to buy the entire material. This allows you to save a lot of time and money, and allow you the freedom to experiment with different combinations without spending too much.

What should you look for in fashion design software?

Good clothing design software allows you to create 2d or 3d renders of your design for editing or experimenting. It also allows you to print, upload, and share the designs via email. Some software allow you to replicate real 3-D fabrics on the screen so that you can visualize them as close to reality as possible–and see your design in different colors and cuts. This type of software usually has a database of different fabrics, textures, and prints. Most of them also have update options that let you add new fabrics and patterns to your database.

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