Breakfast of Champions - Spring 2011 - Mercer Island High School - 7:00 am to 8:30 am
Thank you for volunteering to be a Table Captain for the Mercer Island Schools Foundation Breakfast of Champions event! Everything you need to be an outstanding Table Captain is right here on this page.
Table captains are volunteers who help the Mercer Island Schools Foundation by inviting their family, friends and colleagues to join them in attending and supporting the Breakfast of Champions.
Make a list of everyone you know who might be interested in making a difference in our ability to provide exceptional educational opportunities for Mercer Island students and who would be able to join you at the event. If you have been a table captain before, be sure to include people who have joined you in past years. We are counting on you to fill a table of 10 people, but don't stop there. We can always accommodate additional guests, so think big! Maybe team up with a friend to fill two tables.
We suggest you contact your full list of potential guests in at least two ways. For example, talk to people personally, and then send them a follow up email or note. Explain to them why you support the Mercer Island Schools Foundation and invite them to join you in supporting the Mercer Island Schools Foundation with a donation at the event.
All event costs are underwritten by corporate sponsors, so there is no ticket or cost to attend the event. Each guest will be asked to make a minimum gift of $250 to the Mercer Island Schools Foundation at the event. Every gift of $1000 or more will be matched dollar-for-dollar by our Breakfast Angels, a group of donors who pool their resources to challenge and inspire our guests to give generously.
Go to the forms page and register each guest on your Table Captain Guest List. You can either click submit to transmit your form electronically, or you can download the pdf form, print it on your printer and complete the details. Mail your completed form to Mercer Island Schools Foundation, PO Box 1243, Mercer Island,WA 98040, or email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The registration deadline is coming.
Please contact us as soon as you know you will not be able to recruit enough guests to fill a table of 10 people. Although this event is organized around table captains inviting guests, each year there are a number of individual guests who attend the luncheon who do not have a table captain. We will seat these guests at tables that have not been filled.
If one of your invitees declines your invitation because they are not available that day, be sure to offer the opportunity for them to donate in your reply e mail or phone message. For example: "I'm so sorry you can't join me. The good news is that you can still support the important work of the Mercer Island Schools Foundation. If you send your check to me, I'll make sure your donation counts toward the (lunches) /should be Breakfast fundraising goal. Or, you can go online and donate at http://www.mercerislandschoolsfoundation.com.
Absolutely! The most powerful reminder is a quick email or phone call from you a few days before the event.
On the day of the breakfast, you and your guests start arriving at the Mercer Island High School at 7:00 a.m. and the program starts at 7:30 am. Your guests will check in under their last names, where they will receive their table seating assignments. You will receive a packet that has everything you'll need to collect donations at the end of the program. Before you leave you'll simply hand the packet with the donations back to the Mercer Island Schools Foundation staff and volunteers who will be strategically located at the exits. Pretty easy!
Attendees who made a gift will receive a thank you note for their contribution shortly after the event, announcing the total amount of funds raised. Attendees who did not give and guests who were unable to attend will receive a special letter, asking them to make a gift to the Mercer Island Schools Foundation. Please encourage your guests who did not attend to join you and in making a gift for students and teachers. This greatly increases the amount of total donations received.