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This Event Was a Huge Success!

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Monday Morning

We had 21 members at Monday’s meeting which included our Club Satellite member  guest speakers, Brenda Schaefer and Jeff Stueber. There were no Happy Bucks, probably because everyone was bummed out about the Badger Football team route on Saturday night.  Marlin Towne was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the Eight of Clubs, another non-winner. Next week’s pot will be $65 with 47 cards left in the deck and nine pay cards.

1st Annual Pink Pumpkin Walk/Run Recap

Brenda Schaefer and Jeff Stueber from the Club Satellite joined us on Monday morning to recap the 1st Annual Great Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk.  They began by thanking both the Host Club and the Club Satellite for all the support, both financial and moral, to make this event such a success.

The idea for this fundraising run started several years ago when Jeff Stueber started thinking about a way to raise breast cancer awareness and raise some money for the cause.  He posed this project to his Business Practice Firm class at Moraine Park Technical College, where Jeff is an instructor.  Students treated the project as if they were starting their own business. They needed to come up with a name, concept, logo and design, take care of logistics and garner support from the community. The students were able to include their work in their professional portfolios.

Not only did Jeff’s class take off on this project but so did a number of other MPTC students, faculty and student organizations.  Another key figure in this entire adventure was fellow Club Satellite member Brenda Schaefer.  She not only invested her personal time but she also help to coordinate and solicit assistance from MPTC students and faculty as well as help Jeff get over 300 pumpkins painted pink before the race.

The original goal for the run was to have 200 runners/walkers participate.  Imagine the excitement when the registrations pushed over 300 and finally ended at 310 participants.  This event raised over $9,600, $6,000 of which was donated to Breast Cancer Recovery for Infinite Boundaries Retreats with the remaining $3600 held in escrow as seed money for the 2nd Annual Great Pink Pumpkin Run/Walk to be held on October 17, 2015.

What do Pink Pumpkins Have to do with Fundraising?

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Monday Morning 

We had 17 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speakers, “The Mission Drivers” from MPTC. Two “Happy Bucks” were offered by Bonnie Baerwald for a successful Wild Goose Trail Clean Up and the other for Club Satellite Member Jeff Stueber and his Business Management class from MPTC. Bonnie thanked everyone that helped out on Saturday morning to clean the Wild Goose Trail. We had 11 members and seven guests help out in this effort. Harry Schneider was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the six of Clubs, unfortunately for Harry, not a winner. The 50/50 Raffle drawing on June 2nd will have 21 cards with five pay cards and a pot of at least $425.

The Great Pink Pumpkin Walk/Run – Jeff Stueber

Jeff Stueber and his Business Management Class from MPTC, “The Mission Drivers”, joined us on Monday morning to talk about their organizing efforts for the October 18th inaugural Great Pink Pumpkin 5K Walk/ Run. The Mission Drivers is a group of ten students under the direction of Jeff Stueber who are planning not only the inaugural Great Pink Pumpkin 5K Run/Walk but also putting into place a sustainable group of people that will carry on this event into future years. The mission of this group is “to serve our communities by utilizing their strengths and skills to create and promote a close community”. Their vision for this project is:

  • Develop a sustainable business model
  • Benefit the community and students involved
  • Raise breast cancer awareness
  • Register at least 200 runners/walkers
  • Raise $1,000 to donate

The group has gotten the support of the MPTC Student Senate, the Culinary Arts, Corrections and EMT departments and 24 individuals and/or companies in the Fond du Lac area. To date they’ve raised almost $3,500 in cash, $210 in gift certificates and in kind donations of water, orange drink, apples and oranges and ice. The cash donation goal is between $4,000 and $5,000 so the group has almost reached that goal with several more months to go. Great Job Mission Drivers.