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Events
1 What kinds of fundraisers can we do?
- Food Sales (candy, pizza, baked goods). Things that sell best
food
drinks
ice cream
doing henna
- Games Booth (have games which have prizes)
- Penny Drives
have a jar and encourage kids to drop any spare change in there (i.e. at Jumaah, at MSA meetings)
- Penny Wars
have two jars and have a competition between the brothers and sisters and see who can raise the most money in a certain period of time (i.e. a month)
- “Something” Drive
collect clothes, canned foods and donate then to the local mosque.
Talk to the Mosque beforehand to see what they need.
- Fundraising Dinner (see question #5 under Events & Activities)
- Fundraising Bazaar
2 What are some good events/activities to do?
- Contests
make teams and have games
provide prizes as an incentive
- Fieldtrips
go to an Islamic exhibit in DC (there are different ones going on all the time)
go to a Islamic seminar or conference
go to your local mosque/Islamic center and have a lecture or workshop
go to your local mosque/Islamic center and help out with their activities
- Lectures/Workshops
can have a speaker come in and talk on a topic
for a workshop make it more interactive (i.e. on salat, Islamic manners, stories about the companions of the prophet etc)
have the speaker come in a do a power point presentation
have a speaker come and lead a game of jeopardy
have a new Muslim come and tell his story
- Eid Parties (brothers and sisters separate)
try to see what will be most enjoyable for each.
- Make Eid Cards
give them to kids in a local Islamic school
sell at mosque and send funds to relief organizations.
- Basket ball (or any other sport) Tournament
get together a team of brothers
play against another club in the school
play against another school’s MSA
if there are enough brothers, they can play against each other
- Picnic
have a picnic at a park nearest your school
coordinate with another high school MSA
- Bulletin Board (could be for Eid, hajj, or any other Islamic related topic)
· Go to your local mosque and ask them for Islamic pamphlets, brochures, posters etc they have.
· Go to a local Islamic bookstore (i.e. Halal co) and get any cheap posters
· For supplies go to these websites
o contact Saudi embassy
· Ask kids in school for posters or pictures of Islamic stuff [mosques, Ka’aba, etc].
· Print stuff off the internet.
· Get pictures off software such as Microsoft Word / Corel draw.
· DRAW!!
· And use your imagination to make them creative, colorful and eye catching (use colored paper, markers and glitter).
· Make a collage of Islamic vocabulary
· Type up and print short Hadith and verses from the Quran
· Write down some of Allah’s names on square sheets of paper and put them side by side to make a border for the bulletin board
· Write down the names of prophets on square (or any other shaped) pieces of paper (it may be colored) and put them together to make a border for the bulletin board
· Get pamphlets from any mosque or Islamic center and put them up with the title of the display saying “Clueless?” or anything else that grabs your attention
· Make a display case in the library of books
o get Islamic books from your school library
o check out books from the public library
o bring books from home (make sure you write down who brought the books so you can return it to those kids)
NOTE: And make sure when you make these display cases that you write on it somewhere that its done by the Muslim Students Association (not MSA) because most people probably don’t know what it stands for
3 What kinds of activities/fundraisers/events can we do during Ramadan
- Have motivation lectures every week
- Arrange an Iftaar -(food for breaking fast in Ramadan)
- “Something” drive
Collect clothes, canned foods and donate then to the local mosque. Talk to the Mosque beforehand to see what they need.
4 Where can we get speakers for MSA meetings?
5 How can we organize a dinner? What questions do we consider?
who is going to speak (speaker.. sponsor.. president etc)
what will the program look like
what will be the topic
who will be the speaker
where will the event be held
how much will you charge for the tickets
who will be in charge of selling the tickets
who will be in charge of publicizing
how many volunteers do you need
- what tasks need to be done (b4 event, day of, during and after)
how much money do you have to spend on this dinner. can you afford
to go in negative (check with the finance person in your school)
how are you going to get the food (see question #6 for suggestions)
who will be in charge of buying supplies for the dinner
what supplies do we need and how much (ie. Table cloths, plates, cups etc)
Note: instead of writing actual time or program, estimate time spans. Use time such as maghrib
so you don’t look late even if you are late.
6 Where do we get the food for dinners from?
