The SFU Donation Challenge Status Report: Day 2

Below, we share our experiences from the first two days of the SFU Donation Challenge.

Day One:

The first day of SFUDC was quite hectic. On day one we hauled each of our five clothing donation boxes to all of our drop-off locations around the SFU campuses. As one might expect, we got some strange looks from observers and passers-by. One man even exclaimed "What the HECK is that thing?" as I carried our donation box into the SFU Surrey campus!

In case you missed it, we decided to change the locations of some of our donation boxes. Please make sure you read our updated list of donation box locations if you are planning on donating anything this week because of the changes.

After setting up the boxes, we spent some time preparing for our information session and raffle draw on day two.

That pretty much summarizes day one.

Day Two:

The second day of SFUDC was mostly devoted to our information session and our raffle draw. If you were at SFU Burnaby on Tuesday, you may have seen our table in the Saywell Hall Atrium, right next to Renaissance Coffee. Understandably, we did not see a ton of traffic, presumably because it's SFU's summer semester and the weather was beautiful. However, we still had encouraging chats with some SFU students and faculty. Best of all, near the end of our information session we received a lovely visit from Mark Savard, the Development Officer of Community Giving at Covenant House BC. 

After the information session, we took a walk around campus to check up on our donation boxes. To our disappointment, two out of the four boxes at SFU Burnaby were completely empty. We hope that people are just waiting until the last few days to donate because, let's face it, university students excel at procrastinating. 

Consequently, we have decided to kick our marketing efforts up a notch. We're going to be more active on Twitter and Facebook this week and will hopefully be getting more help from SFU social media page/account admins.We want those empty boxes to be so full at the end of the week that the donations won't stay in and they will obstruct people in the hallways!