Ad Space

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Mentioned this in another thread, and realized it might not be commonly considered.

 

Our troop has a spaghetti dinner. There are the usual advance ticket sales plus pay at the door. Furthermore, our CO purchases some of the tickets for folks who've been clients of our food pantry. That way, they get to participate with the rest of the community without anyone needing to know they are going through some tough times. However, some of these folks go out of their way to thank the boys for making their lives a little easier over the past year.

 

However, the boys also visit local businesses to sell ad-space on the place-mats. They collect business cards or the company can E-mail their logo which gets forwarded to our printer (whose kids were in scouts or venturing and will generate black-and-white mats at no cost to us).

 

What I like about this: although the product is a little more abstract, it is likely to be along the lines of the kind of job many of these boys will have -- especially the ones who are into game development and web design. Learning how to sell space for someone's good name is a skill in of itself!