Ways & Means
Volunteers Needed for BSUAOP Fund Raising 
Greetings fellow BSUAOP members. My name is Marsha Hale and I am the Ways and Means Committee Chair. I have come up with a unique and profitable idea to raise funds for BSUAOP. BSUAOP volunteers are needed for each building on campus to collect printer cartridges in their building. I can provide boxes with labels for you to use in packing the cartridges. We are required to have at least eight cartridges per box; however the boxes will hold 10 or more cartridges depending on the size of the return cartridge box. When returning cartridges, we do still need to put them in their return box for protection. The boxes we ship are limited to 40 lbs or less. I have researched the weight for 10 of the larger cartridges and they weigh about 40 lbs. All brands of printer cartridges are accepted: HP, Del, Brother, etc. cartridges. There is a list of all cartridges approved for funding and I can send a copy to anyone who would like one or it is available on-line (http://www.fundingfactory.com/programs/recycling/qualifying_items.aspx?type=las.) Right now, I am having everyone sending all cartridges, and I will discuss with the Funding Factory if this is acceptable. We may not receive funds for all cartridges but if they will accept all, it will eliminate us having to separate them before shipping. Two boxes have been sent in and BSUAOP will realize $53 for them. This is a worthwhile effort.
Once this project gets started and we have it mastered, this will be an on-going fund raiser that will continue to make money for BSUAOP. If $50 will be the average for every two boxes shipped and we do that on a weekly basis (which I believe we can), we could be looking at $2600 per year.
If you have any questions, please call me at 6-4868 or email me at marshahale@boisestate.edu. Thank you all in advance for your support.