The Fashion Show to host fundraisers
Buffalo Wild Wings Fundraiser
February 21, 2017
The Fashion Show will fundraise like crazy over the next two weeks to fund the production of the show and scholarships to participating students. The Fashion Show will host its annual Buffalo Wild Wings Fundraiser on Wednesday and will work the concessions at the ISU men’s basketball game against Oklahoma State on Tuesday at Hilton Coliseum.
The Buffalo Wild Wings Fundraiser is one of the most profitable fundraisers for The Fashion Show. Over the years, The Fashion Show has held a restaurant takeover at Orange Leaf, Panera and other surrounding restaurants. For the past four years, Buffalo Wild Wings has proved to be the most popular and profitable destination.
“It’s actually up to the fundraising directors to see what fundraisers we do,” said Emilee Meyer, senior in apparel, merchandising and design and an outreach producer for the Fashion Show. The Buffalo Wild Wings fundraiser makes us the most money compared to any other restaurants we have ever done. They always just continue the Buffalo Wild Wings one just because it makes us the biggest profit and sale’s percentage with higher volume of customers.”
To support, order a meal at Buffalo Wild Wings from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. and present The Fashion Show flyer to the waitress. 10 percent of the sales will be donated to The Fashion Show.
“The Fashion Show doesn’t get a ton of funds — a lot of it is fundraising, and the Iowa State Fashion Show is the biggest student-run fashion show in the United States, so if you love Buffalo Wild Wings, why not go and show support,” said Blair Gillotti, sophomore in apparel,merchandising and design, said. “You are eating good food and helping out a concept that so many people love.”
Taking over the Iowa State basketball concessions isn’t new to the Fashion Show, but this is the first year The Fashion Show has done a full-concession takeover. In past years, about 20 members would volunteer at about five different games, adding up to 100 volunteers. By switching to a full-takeover, 80 volunteers help out at two games, and the Fashion Show receives an extra $500 per game.
“When I was a fundraising director, it was always an issue getting people to sign up [for concessions] because fundraising at a basketball game is a lot of work compared to doing a T-shirt sale,” Meyer said. “This year we required all committee members and directors to work one basketball game. ”
For concessions, 10 percent of net food sales and 8 percent of net drink sales go to The Fashion Show. At the their last concession takeover on Jan. 31, The Fashion Show was able to raise a total of $2,845.21.
“Fundraising via concessions and restaurant takeovers have been and will continue to be crucial,” Seth Fridley, senior in management and the budget planner for The Fashion Show, said. “We are fortunate to have a large footprint as far as membership goes, which allows us to get the word out to more people as well as have more volunteers.”
On top of these fundraising initiatives, the FundISU Campaign is going strong with $16,472 raised, 82 percent of the total $20,000 goal. Donations for the FundISU Campaign will close at 7 p.m. Friday.
For more information on the Fashion Show and how to donate to the FundISU Campaign, visit https://fundisu.foundation.iastate.edu/project/3971.
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