Charitable Events

We ran across this event a while back and thought it was a great idea! Throwing away critical documents that have account numbers is not a good idea, so having an occasional “shred” day is a good way to offer a service and in this case, raise money for a local cause. "Join us This Saturday April 14, 2012 from 10AM-1PM for our Community Shred Day! Come and witness your private documents being destroyed for $5.00 per standard size (1.2cf) file box. A percentage of all the days’ proceeds will be made on behalf of the Pine Mill Ranch Swim Team. Since this is the startup year for the Swim Team we are in desperate need of your support. Please Repost to your wall and help spread the word for this worth cause! Hope to see you there! Donations are greatly appreciated. The Pine Mill Ranch...

We participate in our Back to School Program supporting children in Chicagoland and securing their future. We buy their school supply list for them. We invite our residents to also help out with these donations.

For the month of April, we collect all old books from our residents. On May 1st we donate the books to our local public library.

Start by letting all residents and local bussiness know that you are going to be hosting a care package event to support the troops. Have those donate from a list things that are needed to our soldiers. Have a community event with local bussineess that you have networked with and have them set up a booth and bring donated prizes to raffel off as people bring their care packages (you can also do this with your vendors). Also, can have games, ect and charge a $1 all procedes go to the delivery of the care packages. Have your staff dress up in military attire. You can do this with any charitable event. Outside marketing will bring in other community residents.

Twice a year we host a blood drive through the American Red Cross in our clubhouse. The Red Cross provides flyers for the event, as well as sending many press releases. We invite all our residents and the rest of the community via Facebook, E-Mail, Craig's List, Eventful.com, etc. On the day of the event, only one volunteer is needed to register the donors as they come in. The Red Cross team handles everything else including clean up. Hosting a Community Blood Drive requires little effort, but the reward in unbeatable!