Extracurriculars...specifically, starting a non proft.

Northstarmom
Mon, 04 May 2009 22:54:15 +0000

Instead of reinventing the wheel, take your time and energy and organize activities to raise money for already existing nonprofits that help cancer victims. Google and you can find some.

Starting a nonprofit takes an enormous amount of work – at least a year, and includes setting up a board --with people who are responsible and experienced in the cause and in doing things like keeping track of the finances. Boards also can be sued, so people take on such responsibilities seriously.

By the time you did this, it would be time for you to move away to college. More reason to organize fundraising activities and donate to an already existing organization. Trust me: Even organizing a fun run or dance marathon or charity concert will take more time and effort than right now you’d ever imagine.

If your reason is to impress colleges, admissions officers know how much work it takes to organize a fund raiser, so organizing one through an existing organization would be far more impressive than spending a year just setting up a nonprofit to duplicate activities that other organizations already do.