Two of the clubs are pursuing their own projects under the ICCF umbrella. Ivy Club chose to continue its support for a separate educational program, and Cottage Club will perform a service project instead.
Last year, the ICCF raised over $4,500 for the Food Justice Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by University undergraduates that promotes healthy living and provides affordable produce in low-income communities. The Foundation used the funds to purchase a truck.
This year, the ICCF chose to support DonorsChoose.org because it allows fundraising at a grassroots level and creates a direct connection between donors and recipients, Haley White ’12, the former co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values, said. Teachers place requests on the website for donations to fund specific projects, field trips and school supplies. Donors can direct funds to the classroom of their choice.
DonorsChoose.org has already received numerous awards, including Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2007 and the 2005 Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award, as well as endorsements from celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert. According to White, the site has already had an impact on 50 percent of all public schools in the nation since its 2000 launch. White is also a former columnist for The Daily Princetonian.
To increase the amount raised, White said, the nine clubs will be competing with one another to see which one can raise the most money. White noted it is easier to raise funds “en masse” rather than as individual clubs because people outside of the University community know them as the “11 eating clubs” rather than as individual eating clubs.
At the same time, each club has the freedom to design its own fundraiser and pick a particular classroom to which to donate, White said. Each club can set its own fundraising goals because of the “socio-economic differences between the clubs.”
Katie Knorr ’13, the president of Quadrangle Club, said the club will be hosting a carnival in order to raise money for a kindergarten class at the Dr. Martin Luther King Elementary School in Trenton, N.J., on Friday. According to DonorsChoose.org, the classroom is seeking funds for “hands-on literary materials” that “will allow each child to stay actively engaged and explore on their individual level.” Last year, Quad hosted a karaoke night.
Tower Club, on the other hand, will be repeating last year’s Bachelor(ette) Auction on Friday, according to club president Jamie Joseph ’13.
“It has always been really successful in the past, and we expect this year to be no different,” she said in an email.
Charter Club also decided to return to last year’s fundraiser and held an event called the Officer Pie-a-Thon last week, where club members donated money to see other members pied as a part of a carnival for charity. The money raised will go toward a classroom at the Newton School in Trenton, which needs calculators and batteries to use during a state math exam. Rodrigo Menezes ’13, the president of Charter, said in an email that the club exceeded their fundraising goal of $800.
In order to sponsor a classroom in its entirety, Tiger Inn will be hosting a wing-eating contest on Friday, Allie Kolaski ’13, the club’s community service chair, said in an email. The contest will be open to all members, but non-members will be able to sponsor their picks for the prospective winner. TI hopes to exceed the amount it raised last year, when the club raised just short of $500, according to Kolaski.
Cannon Club, which opened only this year, will be donating the $800 it raised last Friday through a Date Auction to a kindergarten classroom in Trenton, according to an email from Kathleen Ryan ’14, the club’s community service chair. Ryan said that the fundraiser benefited the club itself in addition to the local community because it brought the club’s members together and demonstrated to the community the emphasis the club places on service.
Correction: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this article mistakenly stated that Ivy Club and Cottage Club did not participate in the Inter Club Community Fundraiser. In fact, all 11 clubs participated in the ICCF, but Cottage and Ivy chose to pursue their own projects rather than coordinate with DonorsChoose.org, like the other 9 clubs. The 'Prince' regrets the error.
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