Annual Fundraising Auction 2010
"The Pike Place Market" at Montlake: Fresh, Locally Grown Minds
- Saturday, April 17, 2010
- 5-6:45pm: Silent auction, raffle, hors d'oeuvres
- 7-10pm" Live auction with dinner and dessert dash
- Montlake Community Center
Hey
Montlake families and friends!
The auction is 5 weeks away!!! We
still need everyone’s help procuring, volunteering for jobs, and
helping us find sponsors. Be sure to read all the details below:
Procuring:
Thank you to everyone that has so
generously procured the auction items below. This is a great start
but we need loads more so please keep it
coming! Talk with friends and
neighbors, make whatever personal and business contacts you can! Be
creative and think big!
Donation
ideas – all kinds of restaurants, theme parties, chef dinners,
sports and activities, equipment, borrow a dump truck, professional services,
non-professional services, help weeding, breakfast in bed, toys and games…
Procurement
deadline of Mar 25 is almost here. We need
everything by then so we can keep working over Spring break - thanks for
cooperating. For more information on procurement, please see the following:
Letter and form are also available at the school office.
Food:
Restaurants
Ravish, Olivar and El Farol….
Monthly batch
of homemade cookies for 6 months
One dozen
fresh eggs each month for one year from Pike Place Creamery
Grand Central
Bakery “Flour Lover’s Package”
Cocktail Party
– hors d’oeuvres for 20 delivered to your home
Personal Care:
One-hour
massage – Dahlia Spa
Coupe Rokei
Salon – haircut with owner Keith & Color with Sam
Haircut and
Full Color – Salon Blast – Mariah Hauger
Acupuncture
Consultation & Treatment
For the family:
Islandwood
Young Naturalist Backpack
Free
Registration and Last Month Tuition – Kumon of University Village
Family Sitting
with Tara Clark Photography
Home
Organizing by Tweak
Art:
Two pieces of
artwork by local Montlake artist, Mari Jalbing
African Glass
Beads from South Africa
Unique pieces
of art created by each classroom
Travel:
One week
vacation at Vallara Torre Hotel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Christmas in
Hawaii – one week on Kauai at Makai Club Cottages on Makai Golf Course
One week
vacation at Torres Mazatlan Hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico
Two nights
lodging at Crystal Mountain Hotels
Skyway Luggage
FL-Air 7 (3-piece set)
Activities:
Sky High
Sports – Family Pack of 1-Hour Jumping Passes
Coyote Central
Gift Certificate
Parties:
Paper Mache
Puppet Project for Two
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Volunteers: The auction still needs
some volunteers for planning help. Please consider donating some time to
this fine event!
Procurement team – We have many items procured, but still need
more! Hit the pavement and get on the phone! Find items
for donation from business and school communities to be sold at auction.
Items range from low value services or restaurant gift certificates to high
value trips, parties etc. Just about anything goes – looking for fun, new
ideas. Lists of ideas posted on school website. Ask anyone and everyone. To
be done on own time now to end-March.
Decorations team – Help us create the visual image for
the auction, based on the market theme. Will require planning and prep
time over the coming weeks and set-up beginning 9am the morning of auction.
Raffle - We need one or two dedicated parents
to plan the raffle portion of the auction. Requires only a few hours of
planning in advance and one- two hours oversight the night of, from 5-7pm
(drawing is at beginning of Live auction). Loads of history here to work
with, bring your ideas.
Volunteer coordinator – Arrange for volunteers to set-up,
clean-up, and work at the auction. Help monitor high school students (we’ll
explain) during the auction. Most coordinating done by email on own
time.
Registration/back office team –
This is a hugely important job! Assist parent Amanda Williams by working
at registration table the night of the auction, check-in guests and input bid
info into a computer database. Excellent job for a persons or couples
that want to be a part of the auction but don’t want to attend the dinner.
Volunteers for set-up on auction day
– Set-up: all available hands needed for table setting and item displays.
Starting around 9am, for as much time as you have to share. Clean-up:
help leaders Katherine and Jon Evans return the community center to its
undecorated glory.
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Sponsors:
This is
a great opportunity for friends, family and businesses to honor our fundraising
effort and in turn, get their name/logo in front of our school audience.
We’re grateful to all who help offset expenses so we can net more profit for
Montlake School. Persons or businesses will be noted in the catalog, on
the website and in the bulletin for all to see. Of course any donation is welcome, and all will be recognized. Might
you know someone that can help underwrite part of our event? Ask one of us for forms.
Thanks!
Sponsorships:
-Wine/beer - $750
-Catalog - $500
-Table of teachers - $450
-Entertainment - $400
-Postage stamps - $250
-Registration supplies - $100
-Raffle supplies -$100
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Save the date - we look forward to seeing
everyone there!
To volunteer, ask
questions, offer ideas, please contact one of your auction co-chairs:
Heidi at heidi.kaplan@comcast.net
Janice at clifton.j@ghc.org
Jen at jen.emrich@comcast.net