{"id":11823,"date":"2015-11-05T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:22:41","slug":"and-a-sock-hop-got-me-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/and-a-sock-hop-got-me-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"And a Sock Hop Got Me Thinking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each department at my library has been asked to take on the responsibility of raising money. This was a new assignment for me and one that I\u2019m oddly excited about. For some reason, it allowed (forced?) me to take a different approach than I normally do when planning programs. I started thinking of opportunities our area families don\u2019t normally get. And to do that, I started looking around at various community organizations and their services and fundraisers. I would hate to repeat another non-profit\u2019s big idea. And while I\u2019m still learning about this slightly rural-area of my county (I\u2019m all city, baby!) I decided on a Sock Hop! Of course, I turned instantly to Pinterest where I was <em>not <\/em>disappointed in the myriad ideas: from music selection to DIY costumes and decorations. I happen to love 50s music (despite its inherent ridiculousness and rampant sexism) so this is right up my alley. Let the planning begin!<\/p>\n<p>The whole process got me thinking about how I plan other special programs. This might be old news to some of you, but investigating this sock hop idea was a good reminder for me to think about filling the gaps as I plan activities. As well, it was a reminder to see how my library can partner with these organizations in their own efforts to provide services to the community. Some places to consider when planning programs and fundraisers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Parks and Recreation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Schools<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Girl and Boy Scouts<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Churches<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Community Centers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Homeschool Groups<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Animal shelters<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Big Brothers, Big Sisters<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Goodwill<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Junior League<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Kiwannis<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Habitat for Humanity<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Planned Parenthood<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">YMCA<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">YWCA<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">United Way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In looking around at these organizations, I found several fundraising events with which I would have hated to compete and a number of services our library could either promote or ride their coattails. \u00a0I also am considering contacting a few of these places to see about partnering in a fundraising event. \u00a0Anyone out there work with other non-profits in a fundraising capacity?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p><em>Our guest blogger today is Kelley Beeson. Kelley is the Youth Services Department Head at the <a href=\"http:\/\/westernalleghenylibrary.org\/\">Western Allegheny Community Library<\/a>. She\u2019s been working in libraries since high school and her favorite book is Marcus Zusak\u2019s <i>The Book Thief<\/i>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"wp-caption-text\">Please note that as a guest post, the views expressed here do not represent the official position of ALA or ALSC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>If you\u2019d like to write a guest post for the ALSC Blog, please contact Mary Voors, ALSC Blog manager, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alscblog@gmail.com\">alscblog@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each department at my library has been asked to take on the responsibility of raising money. This was a new assignment for me and one that I\u2019m oddly excited about. For some reason, it allowed (forced?) me to take a different approach than I normally do when planning programs. I started thinking of opportunities our area families don\u2019t normally get. And to do that, I started looking around at various community organizations and their services and fundraisers. I would hate to repeat another non-profit\u2019s big idea. And while I\u2019m still learning about this slightly rural-area of my county (I\u2019m all city, baby!) I decided on a Sock Hop! Of course, I turned instantly to Pinterest where I was not disappointed in the myriad ideas: from music selection to DIY costumes and decorations. I happen to love 50s music (despite its inherent ridiculousness and rampant sexism) so this is right up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[134,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-programming-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}