Fundraisers

2021 GREENS SALE

Each year, York Performing Arts students (primarily choir, band and orchestra) sell beautiful, high quality holiday wreaths and centerpieces delivered just in time for Thanksgiving. This sale has become something that friends, family and neighbors look forward to each year! Profits from the sale are held in individual student escrow accounts and used for future music department trips and travel. Sellers typically earn up to 30% on each item sold. (Click here for more info about student escrow.) Participation in the sale is optional.

View the 2021 brochure. Contact Nancy Flanagan if you have any questions.

Seller Instructions below.

Don't know a Performing Arts student, but still want to support the program by purchasing greens? Click here.

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SELLER INSTRUCTIONS - 2021

Sale Dates: September 28 - October 28

Order Forms Due: October 28 (Th), Drop at 165 Geneva, Elmhurst

Pick Up Greens: November 20 (Sa), 9am - 11am, Locker rooms on south side of football field

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

• Print the Order Form and Greens Sale Brochure. Print additional Order Forms if necessary. List orders on the Order Form.
• Collect payment from customers when they order. Checks should be made payable to York Music Parents Associations or YMPA. The payment you submit with your order will only be accepted in check form. Cash will not be accepted.
• Check the Order Form for accuracy, then record order totals on the Google Form.
• Place completed order form and money (checks only, no cash) in an envelope clearly labeled with student's name.
• Drop the completed envelope to 165 Geneva, Elmhurst, by October 28. There is a locked dropbox on the porch off the driveway. Be sure to keep a copy of the order form for your records.
• Pick up the greens on Saturday, November 20, 9am - 11am, in the locker rooms at the south end of the football field. Deliver the greens to customers right away!

How much will a student earn in escrow for each item sold? Check out this itemized list.

If you have any questions or would like to help out with the Greens Sale, please contact: Nancy Flanagan at 312-632-9061 or nancyflanagan@mac.com.

This is a fundraising opportunity for band students! Funds generated from this event will be used to help offset the cost of the 2022 Spring Band Trip to Memphis and New Orleans.

Here's a description of the fundraiser from Mike Pavlik, Director of Bands:

1. On Saturday, Oct. 16th from 9:00 a.m. to Noon, interested York Band Students are invited to be part of a Community Cleanup Event.

2. Students need to bring their own gloves and dress appropriately for collecting trash.

3. Bags are provided for trash collection.

4. Students meet at the main parking lot at York High School at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 16th.

5. Groups of students will be sent to several public spaces in Elmhurst to pick up garbage and recyclables from those areas.

6. Mr. Pavlik will deliver groups of students to specific cleanup areas and back to York via a Dist. 205 bus.

7. Pickup trucks will collect filled bags and deliver them to appropriate trash and recycling receptacles.

8. Two weeks prior to the event, students are invited to solicit donations from family and friends for the work that they will provide on Oct. 16th.

9. An individualized web-based fundraising site will be used to facilitate the donation collection. Here's an example.

10. Your individualized donation website will be available to you to use on Oct. 4th.

11. All donations collected through these sites will be routed into individual York Music Booster Student Escrow Accounts. 

12. If you'd like more information about the York Music Booster organization, here's a link to the website.

13. Pizza will be provided for all participants after the fundraising event in the York parking lot at 12:15.

If you'd like to participate, simply fill out this Google Form and reserve 3 hours of your time from 9:00 to noon on Saturday, Oct. 16th.

If you'd like to participate in the fundraiser and direct all of your donations to help students in need, GREAT! A separate website will be generated to accept donations for that purpose. Please chat with me about this option and I will direct you to that website.

Parents! If you would like to help on the day of the fundraiser, please fill out this form.

Everybody loves Lou Malnati's! Students sell frozen pizza coupons. A percentage of each coupon sale goes directly to the student's escrow account.

Zumba! Latin Dance! Live Band - Alewife! Come out for this unique joint fundraiser benefitting YMB (we support the high school musicians) and Elmhurst Music Boosters (supports D205 musicians in grades 4 - 8). Link to flyer.

YMB holds several "Eat and Earn" events throughout the year in conjunction with local restaurants and shops. Dates are announced through the YMB website, Facebook page, and through email. "Eat and Earn" partners often require that a minimum dollar amount be reached before proceeds can be shared with YMB. Please support these events when you see them pop up!