A Bowling Tournament

As the public relations assistant for Saipan SDA School, one of the larger roles I play is to help organize fundraisers throughout the year. Having only done very minimal fundraising before this year, I was/am very grateful to our office manager, Virle, for helping me navigate this part of my job. I have learned so much from her in three months! One of the first big fundraising “events” we hosted this year was a bowling tournament.

As this was the school's first time hosting a bowling tournament, we were glad that one of the parents volunteered to help us organize the event. With his help we got all the details of the event figured out. I designed posters and large tickets for the tournament. We then composed a letter to all the local businesses requesting support of this event. We got a lot of support too! Even Subway sent us gift certificates. With the cash prizes and raffle prizes taken care of, all that was left to do was to sell tickets.

The capacity for the event was 60 participants. Only a handful of tickets were pre-sold, so we all held our breath the day of the tournament to see how many would come. Thankfully the little bit of advertising and word-of-mouth brought out over 40 people to participate in the event.

Although this event wasn't a huge success monetarily speaking, a lot of the people who came did not know about our school previously. We made many new friends, got our name out in the community, and had a fun time. I’d say it was well worth the effort.