How can I organize this event I want to do?

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<p>I want to start something at a few elementary/middle/even high schools. I was thinking if it were possible to simply get schools to provide handwritten cards from children to give out to people. Perhaps during Christmas or something ( If it really gets going every major holiday). I have seen the effect of simply giving out a card and how it can totally change someone’s day. I was thinking of maybe giving out cards to Nursing Homes (for sure), the local hospital (preferably cancer patients), and perhaps maybe soldiers deployed at the army ( less likely ). I know I really want to do this, but I’m really not sure how to start.</p>

<p>Should I try and start some sort of non-profit? I really need a lot of people to help me out, but its’ difficult to get people at my school to do things like this… This has been something I really have been wanting to do for years now, but never got the nerve to actually get it done. What is the first step to this? Organize the people first? What if I organize a bunch of people but no schools are willing to do it? Do I go to individual elementary schools or try to contact the superintendent? ( incredibly hard to contact) . If I can get every elementary school my district to participate, I would have over 6,000 cards to send out and dayum. </p>

<p>Also, how can I keep the quality of the cards up? I want them to be handmade, but not all of them look very good at all… Would perhaps a better idea be to fundraise and simply buy cards for the kids to write on? That would be ridiculously expensive. What if we did it where whole classes simply made one big card? That would limit the amount of cards given but it would at least provide quality cards.
I really just need a first step, here. </p>

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<p>You should probably get a few friends and try talking to either a school administrator, or a teacher. There’s a non-profit organization that bloomed from my school because a teacher was in a car crash because another driver was texting and driving. A club started around it, led by another teacher. You could probably organize it as a club activity that both publicizes the card making, and works to distribute them. I think it would actually be nice to be able to have different projects or groups to send cards too, like local war veterans, hospitals, retirement homes, etc. You could maybe make it a mini-contest with a movie ticket prize or something so that more people will provide cards, and they’ll put more effort into them.</p>

<p>Also, if you have trouble doing this through your school, you could always try making this an online-non-profit. People could scan cards they make, or make them through a digital media. I’m saying this because you’d be able to organize a wider array of projects and get more cards from sources across the country, or world. I for one would really enjoy being part of something like that. People at your school may be unmotivated, but I’m sure that there are plenty of people that would agree with the cause.</p>

<p>Whether you plan to do this local or global, good luck! </p>