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2011 National Shinerama Award Winners
It’s Orientation Week in the 1960s. You’re a student leader and looking for a way to have fun and help others. So you take a pair of someone’s scruffy shoes, clean them up and ask for a donation. Dozens of shoe shines later, you and your friends have raised $1,300.
It’s that simple – and it’s been working for 47 years. An event called Shinerama – now Canada’s largest post-secondary school fundraiser has raised more than $21.5 million for cystic fibrosis research.
TEAMs (Together Everyone Achieves More). Put together a shiner team – alumni, hockey mates, faculty, family, fraternity, sorority, Facebook friends).
Become a shiner today. Do the traditional thing – shine shoes, wash cars, sell raffle tickets. Make noise, polish a war ship, buff a pair of skates or a bald head (get permission first). The possibilities are endless – no fundraising idea is too big, too small, or too outrageous (as long as everyone is safe). So come up with a fundraising idea, grab a bunch of friends, call your school to get Shinerama on campus and get supplies.
Come up with a fundraising idea, or find some in the How-to resources and give your school a call to get help with putting it all together!
Reviewed/updated: 2012-01-13
