We run things different. We form a committee of PTO members. This committee runs everything involved with the silent auction. The only thing we do is ask the teachers to donate things to the silent auction like 1 hr of basketball with soandso teacher, lunch with so and so teacher, dinner with so and so teacher.....items like that.
Last November our Parent-Teacher Club organized the first school auction. All proceeds were disbursed among teachers who
1.) Contacted 20 businesses to ask for donations
2.) Create a Classroom Theme Basket
3.) Help work at the auction
We only had a couple of teachers opt to contact businesses for donations. Myself and 2 other PTC Officers made over 800 contacts. This year we would like to require that teachers must contact a specified number of businesses in order to receive a share of the profits. Does anyone else do this, or have ideas of the best way to go about this might be?
