It's time again for the Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic! This Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd and 24th, Troop 260 will be selling collectible t-shirts for the Alabama Jubilee. This is our 4th year doing this fundraiser, and we like to do a good job again so that the Alabama Jubilee doesn't give the job to another charitable organization that needs to raise funds. We aren't doing the yard sale this year, so we are down one fundraiser!
In a nutshell, we have scouts (and parents too, if they wish) come out and man the t-shirt tent. It's an easy job, in the shade, and we just sit around in chairs when there's no customers. I've split the weekend up into two-hour shifts; and you can sign up for multiple shifts.
Alabama Jubilee has lots of balloons of course, but they also have carnival food, free entertainment, and other family activities. In the years past, I've had scouts come out and work a few hours and then hang around to have fun too.
Alabama Jubilee pays the troop 10% of the gross sales in the t-shirt booth, and we credit the Scouts' "Scout Bucks" accounts with half of that. And parents that come out and help also earn scout bucks for their scout! The more hours you man the booth, the more scout bucks you earn.
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This fundraiser is great for:
~teaching the boys basic salesmanship,
~having them understand they have to earn money to go on the fun trips, and
~saving their parents some money on our annual ski trip or even offset the cost of summer camp!
***Unlike popcorn, we don't have to go out and find customers, they walk right up to the tent!
***And unlike tree sales, we don't have to tie the t-shirts to the roof of their cars!
pictures from alabama jubilee myspace and facebook.
