Penny Wars (CORD)
When: October 30-November 30 2016
Impact: All proceeds go to CORD USA’s Bhutanese Refugee Empowerment Program (BREP) or the CORD Center of your center’s choosing
Purpose: The purpose of this initiative is so that through the hype of this initiative, our Balavihar students get an understanding of CORD and seva – as Gurudev puts it, service to humanity is service to the Lord of Lords. It is less about fundraising and more about awareness across our Balavihar platform. Nonetheless, their contributions are still valuable, however little.Rules: Penny Wars is an initiative between each class group. Each class group will be assigned one jar, and these jars will be lined up at your center during Balavihar. Each class will be putting in pennies into their own jar; students are also encouraged to put quarters, dimes, nickels, dollar bills, or any other type of money into other class’s jars. Pennies in a class’s jar bring positive points to that class group. Nickels, dimes, quarters, bills all bring negative points. At the end of the month, the class with the highest collected amount wins!What is the proposed use for the funds raised?
The money raised from this initiative can be used to help your local Bhutanese Community. If your center does not have a Bhutanese refugee community in proximity, the funds can be donated to the national CORD USA cause, or to CORD causes around the globe. These causes include funds needed for CORD Sri Lanka, CORD Deuladiha, and others. In previous years, we raised up to 9K from the participating centers! These funds went into funding various projects helping the Bhutanese across North America. In some centers, we were able to hold Balavihar workshops by CHYKs for the Bhutanese children.
How to get started?
Please contact chykwest@cordusa.org if you would like to host your own Penny Wars! You can download FAQ and flyer from here.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you in advance for your kindness,
Subha Varma Pathial
CORDUSA Inc.
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Note: One jar will be given for each session for Penny Wars – note that this is different from the past, where we had a jar for each class in each session. The competition will be held between sessions instead of between classes. Request from the Finance Team: At the end, please convert the change that you collect (the pennies, quarters etc) into Bank notes.
