Annual Fundraiser
2020 Fundraiser
This year’s fundraiser will be on Sunday, March 1, 2020.
We’re really excited about the event this year, as it marks a little bit of a departure from our normal program. We’ll still have wonderful music and dance performances from students and local groups, and we’ll still have amazing dessert items from local Flagstaff businesses.
But this year, even more students from Flagstaff are getting involved, in a lot of different ways!
This year, we are creating a global market that focuses on the ten countries where our girls live. Community artists and students and their teachers have been reading about our girls, and the countries they live in, and creating art of all kinds—pottery, paintings, cloth products, photography, mobiles, jewelry, furniture—that is informed by that country and that girl.
In addition, we’ll have items from those actual countries for sale. We’re making the whole thing like a big marketplace, and the performances will happen right in the middle of it all! Tacos los Altos will be providing yummy snacks, and we’ll have drumming and dancing and singing and music all around the room. There will be face painting and temporary tattoos, and chances for kids of all ages to get involved.
Items will sell for a variety of prices, from as little as $1 on up. There will be no bidding this year; you can pay for your item(s) and take them immediately!
Schools that are involved this year
Coconino High School, Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, Flagstaff Junior Academy, Mountain School, and Sinagua Middle School.
The event will be at the Flagstaff Elks Lodge at 2101 N. San Francisco Street.
Doors open at 1:30 PM and the event begins at 2 PM.
Entry is $5 at the door.
Come by if you are in the area and help support girls’ education with some fun purchases!
Please keep checking back here.
We will update this page as more events and participants take shape!
Confirmed Performers and Dessert Donations
Ballet Folklorico de Colores • Vusi Shibambo African Drumming and Stories • FALUNK • FALA African Drum and Dance • Maddie Morse—world music and song • Brandy’s Restaurant • Oregano’s Pizza • Macy’s European Coffee House • Simply Delicious • Crumbl Cookies • Mozelle’s Downtown Bakery • Sprouts Farmer’s Market • Tacos Los Altos • Biff’s Bagels • Campus Coffee Bean • Tourist Home • Alpine Pizza
A Few of the Items
Painted ofrendas from Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy
A selection of items from several countries
$75 worth of purchases lets you take home your loot in one of these great bags!
Handmade manta made by women waiting in Mexico for their asylum cases to be heard
Making “ofrendas” to sell at the event in Spanish class
Some of the Spanish class at FALA and their “ofrendas”
Making “ofrendas” to sell at the event
Students from Flagstaff Junior Academy working on a chair
Prachi’s pot from Coconino High School
Silkscreened totes from Rena Hamilton and Janeece Henes of FALA
Art teacher Kelly Woodruff from Coconino High School asked her students to each pick a girl and study her and her country. Here is a pot inspired by India
Pillows and ornament from FALA art students
Making a pillow at FALA for sale at the event
Students in Amy Dries’ woodworking class at Sinagua Middle School
Super cool signs made by the students in Amy Dries’ woodworking class at Sinagua Middle School
Look at all these cool signs!
A student from Coconino HIgh School made a pot for our student Prachi
Prachi’s pot
Globes to sell at the fundraiser made by Coconino High School students
The display on Coconino High School’s wall
Coconino High School teacher Laura Locke put up this display on their high school wall, to remind her students of the fundraiser and the importance of education