<p>My daughter told me that almost every week some campus group goes dorm room to dorm room soliciting funds for their club/sport/charity. She told me that if it is for a charity, she gives a dollar or two but for a club/sport she declines. Do all schools do this?</p>
<p>How the heck do these people get into the buildings? Whatever happened to security? Aren’t non-resident guests supposed to be accompanied by their resident host at all times?</p>
<p>There is a group of 4 dorms that are connected. Once inside one dorm you can wander through all of them until 11PM when the inner connecting doors are closed and locked.</p>
<p>I’ve not heard of this yet.</p>
<p>I think that’s pretty common. I went door to door in dorms to raise money for Relay for Life and for Habitat for Humanity… we did 50/50 drawings and we also did “donate your loose change” funds.</p>
<p>Most of the sports had their own type of fund raisers - like the softball team had a fundraiser where they put together care packages of cookies and stuff that parents could buy for their kids and things like that. They always sent out like two mailings per year. My mom used to send me a ‘finals basket’ during finals full of junk food that she purchased from them.</p>
<p>And as far as being accompanied by guest, I don’t think that’s required at most schools. At my school if you weren’t a resident of the dorm you just dropped off your ID at the desk and said who you were visiting and then you were free to be in the building doing whatever. When we went in for drawings and such we just told them we were going door to door for whatever and it was fine. Plus, if a person who is part of the group lives in the dorm they don’t need to do anything… they can just go wherever.</p>
<p>You don’t have to give. It’s nice if you do, but you don’t have to. I know some people would just give like 10 cents and we were very happy and gracious that they did… it all adds up.</p>
<p>That doesn’t happen at my school. I doubt it’s allowed, but who knows? Dorms are only open to current residents; other students need to be signed in by a resident of that dorm, so I don’t think it would work very well. Most student groups sell food, novelty Ts, and other stuff like that to raise money.</p>
<p>She’s allowed to say no, too.</p>
<p>coarranged… if a person of the group is a resident of the dorm, they can sign in their friends who are part of the group.</p>
<p>It was fairly common at my school. It definitely wasn’t an every-week type of thing though. For habitat we did a fall and a spring, and for relay for life we did once per year. For habitat we also did a sleepout at a church which was on a corner of two roads asking for loose change as people drove by throughout the night. That always was a huge money maker for us.</p>
<p>if she doesn’t want to give, she doesn’t have to. But like I said in my last post, even like ten cents is appreciated.</p>
<p>Groups on my campus can make $500 easily by selling food outside one of the most crowded classroom buildings. They order food in advance and pick it up early from Chinatown (Chinese buns are the favorite item) and then sell all morning to students going to or coming from class. It’s so effective because students can basically depend on the fact that food is going to be sold there in the mornings. It’s really a huge money-maker and doesn’t really take that much time or effort.</p>
<p>where is your campus at? Nobody has ever done that at my school. We had groups grilling hot dogs and like bake sale type of things… but never ever food ordered from somewhere like that.</p>
<p>I think it also depends on the school… it’s location and the amount of people who attend and such. </p>
<p>Biology Club did hot dogs/ sodas/ candy every Wednesday. Hot dogs were a dollar, candy was 50 cents and a can of soda was 50 cents. I think they would sell like 20-50 hot dogs tops.</p>
<p>I’m at the University of Chicago. I think it’s the dependability that works for groups. Groups book the space most weeks during the year, especially in the winter, so there is almost always food being sold. It’s great for morning classes when people didn’t wake up early enough to go to the dining hall or wait in line at a coffee shop; the food is right in the lobby area of the building, so every person going to or coming from class walks by, and it’s the busiest building on campus.</p>
<p>At my school soliciting in dorms is not allowed. RAs are asked to escort solicitors out of the building if they see them.</p>