Calling for Kids
Spring Fundraising Campaign
Students Will Call for Support on April 1^st and 2^nd

Goal: 1500 families - $200 per family - $300,000 for Issaquah Schools

Phone Bank Volunteers - This Page is for YOU

 

First of all, THANK YOU to all of the volunteer students, coaches, advisors, teachers and parents and other community members for donating your time to this event.  Your help will make a difference to all students in the Issaquah School District.

Following are some tools to help you know what to expect on the night of the phone calling.  We hope that these tools will help you to be more comfortable and more effective in your calling, or in supporting our student callers.

Reading Materials and Tools

• Calling Script
  • Answering Machine Message
• Parent/Supervisor Responsibilities
• Issaquah Schools Foundation Fact Sheet
• Calling for Kids 2008 Fact Sheet
• Project GLAD Fact Sheet

Schedule

5:00 pm     Set-up time (ISF board members and committees)

5:30 pm     Students and chaperones arrive for Check-in and Pizza
Callers - when you arrive to check in, please get your pizza quickly because training will begin right at 6:00.  Also, anyone arriving after 6:00 will be held in the outer hallway so as not to disrupt the training already underway.  Late arrivals will be trained once the other kids are on the floor starting to make calls.

6:00 pm    Students begin training

6:15 pm    Students begin calling

6:30 pm    Teacher, administrators and other volunteers arrive
to help with addressing thank you letters, sorting and recording donation cards, etc.

8:00 pm    Stop calling and clean up
Callers - you will need to stay until 8:00 in order to receive credit for your club

Directions to the Costco Call Center - 800 Lake Drive, Issaquah

• Enter at the Costco Entrance, 10th Ave. NE
  You will have Costco and the Costco gas station on your right and the Pickering Barn on your left.

• At the T you will turn left (Lake Drive)

• Follow this road for a short time, take  the next left into the “800” building parking lot. 
  (the building does not say “Costco”)

• The entrance will be a SIDE DOOR on the left of the 800 bldg.

• Ring the doorbell a few times and then wait patiently...someone will eventually buzz you in.
  Once buzzed in, walk upstairs and knock on yet another door and we will let
  you into the building. Costco has very tight security and will not let us prop any of the doors open.

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