82-FCCLA Series: Fundraising with Abigail Lee

<p>• If you are starting out brand new, you don't have a chapter and you're interested in starting a chapter, I'd recommend first starting on our website, we have our join page that list out what it looks like, and then I also encourage you to check out the FCCLA advisors Facebook group. That's a great support group for those that...  I know myself, sometimes I'm like, I see it, I understand what it says, that I need someone to walk me through it. And so we have a lot of advisors that are on stand-by and a lot of our staff members to help through that process, but that would be the first start step and then you'll affiliate through the portal.  If your school has had a chapter before and you're a new advisor,  there's some that might have a different processes, but then our staff members are happy to walk you through it, if you do need further assistance with that. (7:15)</p><p>• So we have our set numbers for what our affiliation costs are, and then you can find out what your state does, and then it'll be up to the advisor to determine if they wanna do a chapter dues.  We do have some of our ones that they might have a goal of fundraising or to offset the cost, 50% for chapter members, or like we've done on the national level, we started this year was through our ultimate leadership fund, where we provide an affiliation support grant opportunity that chapter advisors can apply for. We have some chapters that maybe fundraise an amount to help those student members that can't pay for affiliation themselves, so that can be determined on that a lot, your advisors or your educators will know maybe how many of your students are low-income students, what percentage of that that's where your numbers in your data for your school that are specific to your school, what your demographics look like will really help you determine that number when fundraising. (9:40)</p><p>• How can we go about mixing it up so we don't have the same people helping fundraise? With that, I would say looking at what the students passions are... f