As the Joint Regional Conference in Hawaii approaches, I would like to encourage you all to attend and to check out the conference website http://www.swewestern2012.org/aloha.php for the schedule of workshops and tours. I hope these recaps on fundraising events will help your section raise enough money to attend the conference.SWE at SJSU held its first bake sale of the year on September 20-29, 2011. The goal of the fundraiser is to help raise money to send more members to the joint regional conference in Hawaii. Almost all goods sold were homemade and donated by various SWE members. Even some who were not yet members offered to bake or help sell, which was really impressive. Most of those who helped who were not members at the time of the bake sale have since joined SWE!
The bake sale was successful; we made over $300 over the course of three days. Items sold were brownie bites, sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, chocolate chip cookies, mini cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes, pumpkin bread, cake and milk tea. Almost all items were sold by the end of the sale.
We felt that the sale was successful so we are planning on having another one during the holiday season. We hit some bumps along the way so in the future we will have better planning and organization. One thing we can improve on is communication. We plan to improve this by creating a listing of all the officers with contact information and instructions to be handed out to all volunteers and to have an officer present at every shift. Profits will again go towards funding for the regional conference.
(Provided by Rowena Alcantara, SJSU Section President)
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