Ten Tips: How to Raise Money for Your Participation in the USSF

So you think you can't raise enough money to participate. Have you tried all of these ideas?
1. Ask 10 of your friends to save their spare change for 3 months and donate it to your USSF costs.
2. Ask 30 people if they will support you at $10 each.
3. Plan a party at your home or a local community space, and ask for a $5-$15 donation.
4. Creative Sales: bake a batch of cookies, decorate 20 postcards or write a poetry zine and sell them for $5 each.
5. Did your organization receive grant money this year?  If so, ask your program officer about applying for discretionary funds to support your group's travel to Detroit.
6. Not connected to an organization? Join a caravan to Detroit from your area. Check out abc.ussf2010.org
7. Share a hotel room with 3 friends.
8. Set aside $15 from each of your paychecks from now until June.
9. Host a yard sale or a car wash.
10. If your birthday is coming up, ask people to donate to your USSF costs instead of giving you gifts.

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