Fundraising opportunity?

I am excited about the following and found it to be a very interesting potential fundraiser so I thought I would share…

A professor and the advisor for EWB at Michigan Tech University (my alma mater) started a project called Kidsview (http://www.kidsview.org). The idea being to get cameras into the hands of children to see the world from their point of view. He has mostly used EWB-MTU as the method of distributing the cameras to interesting locations. The cameras are sponsored by donors at various rates ($20-50) based on what the donor would like in return-- see the web site for details.

I just exchanged emails with Kidsview about how we might coordinate to create a fundraising opportunity for EWB-PSP while still supporting his project and not just stealing the idea. His response was that we could certainly work something out where our chapter received the majority of the funds raised. Of course the photos would be ours to use for further fundraising opportunities. I can envision Christmas cards or just prints if some turn out really spectacular.

Of course we could wait and do this with the implementation trip, but not only would that be after the fall fundraiser, we all know patience may be a virtue but is no fun at all. So… to do this on the assessment trip we could either try to get people to sponsor cameras in the next month (okay maybe a little crazy with everything else) or just buy a bunch of cameras on our own and work out the details later.

Kidsview is sending me more detailed information soon on how he normally deploys cameras- he is prepping for a Bolivia trip with EWB-MTU right now as well.

Erin