Create your own event

Fundraisers and Awareness Events

There are several ways to create your own fundraising or awareness event with your family or community: fun-runs/5Ks for a cause, silent auctions, dinners, presentations, book sales or bake sales. Events don’t have to be fundraisers; they can be awareness events promoting Partners In Education/Kozefó, one of our programs, Haiti or other impoverished countries. When considering an event, it is important to think of providing money directly to Partners In Education/Kozefó. that can be used to purchase items (i.e. books, food, supplies) to support the vendors and providers here, rather than sending materials.  Contact Sara Lein at sblein@comcast.net to promote your event.

Please scroll through the events below to see what others have done. Use one of these ideas or create your own.

August 2009-Sartell’s Hands of Hope

The Schlecht and the Orjansen families partnered with their church to host “Sartell’s Hands of Hope.”  Local businesses and donors  supported the event that included Rockin’ for Hope, Hoedown for Hope, Hoops for Hope and concluded with a Pig Roast. Entry fees were collected.  Funds from this event went towards  two sets of bunk beds and mattresses, a tv, food and propane for ANA.

January 2010-10 Things for Haiti

Following the devastating earthquake on January 12th, 2010, Bruce Horwitz coordinated an effort to collect 10 staples of life, as well as monetary donations, to ease the pain for what lied ahead for this country.

10 Things for Haiti: 25 or 50 pound bag of rice • Dry Beans • Milk Powder • Liquid Formula • Peanut Butter (in plastic jars) • Dried Meat • Spaghetti • Cooking Oil • Bleach Tablets • Multivitamins

These items were collected in shipping containers in front of local businesses and schools, shipped from Miami to Port au Prince, and distributed to the ANA Children’s Center and Brebis de Saint Michelle Orphanage.

October 2010-Sunday School Collection

Sunday School children at Celebration Lutheran in Sartell, MN collected money to purchase playground equipment that was bought and made right in Haiti.

November 2011-Orphan Sunday

Woodbury  Community Church participated in Orphan Sunday, as an awareness event, where churches and families celebrate God’s heart for the fatherless and how to respond through adoption, foster care and global orphan initiatives.  Partners In Education/Kozefó  was featured as one of the organizations that is working to meet the needs of orphans and others impacted by poverty, as they work to fight poverty and social injustice through education.

Crafts Direct-Charity of the Week

Owners John and Diane Schlecht, along with sons Scott and Jason, promote giving all year long through the “Charity of the Week” program at their Crafts Direct store in Waite Park, Minnesota.  Kozefó was selected as the charity of the week in May 2012.  Customers could choose to make a $1 donation to use a coupon for their purchases.  All proceeds were given to support the work of Kozefó.