Thanks to AJ, Manuela, Veronica, and Ethan, we had a very successful and educational soliciting run last Saturday in Georgetown. As predicted, the weather was beautiful and businesses were jammed with shoppers out enjoying all that sunshine. We split into two teams -- women v. men -- and set off down opposite sides of M Street. A couple of hours later, we'd hit just about every business on the street, secured a number of donations, and left close to 60 donation forms with people who may yet donate. At the end of the day, we tallied up our donations and the women had put the men to shame by collecting far more donations. I was on the men's team and I just keep thinking, if only we hadn't spent so much time in that tattoo shop, maybe we would have had a better chance! ;-)
But seriously, we learned that a sunny Saturday is probably not the best time to solicit donations for the auction -- managers are simply too busy keeping up with the flow of customers to be able to talk to us at such times. We'll be going out again sometime over spring break (next week!), perhaps Wednesday afternoon. Watch this space for more information.
Meanwhile, keep bringing in those donations -- every donation will help to make this year's auction the best ever.
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