Prject doc: About the project and project goals

My charitable sponsor is Mr. Ray Piagentini of Barrington High School, who has led a group of high school students to help the Crow Creek reservation with collection and aid work for over a decade through the organization Brother’s Keeper. Each summer, the group of volunteers arrives on a coach bus packed with clothes, housewares, and thousands of pounds of food. Many natives walk for miles from all directions to get their first satisfying meal in months. However, though the club raises a good deal of supplies to send to the reservation every year, there is simply never enough. Basic needs such as winter coats, basic household goods, and food are constantly in short supply, and many natives have to walk home empty handed. I wish to enrich these collections substantially with both long-term items (house wares, clothes, blankets) as well as short-term items (food, toiletries, cleaning supplies) that will be of great use to the reservation.

In addition, the collection plan will have a long term benefit to the group by acting as a “how to” template for fundraising in future years, which – if followed by the entire student organization – could more than double fund raising efforts.

My specific goals for the project are:
1. To raise at least $2000 in funds to spend on new items for collection
2. To gather a minimum of one-van-full of donations
3. To gather donations of acceptable quality
a. Clothing may not be torn or soiled
b. Clothing must be somewhat utilitarian/worker grade
c. Non-clothing items must be useful