The holiday season is the official season of giving.
Giving usually implies for most people a little money here and a little money there.
However, Boys & Girls Town, along with Lambda Sigma Pi, will be aiming for something a little higher this holiday season.
Starting Dec. 1, the two organizations are hoping to raise $10,000 in support of B&G’s holiday present giveaway.
“It basically covers year-round cost we incur for giving out gifts,” Brett Rolwes, the regional assistant director for advancement said.
Rolwes said the program is centered around the 140 children who live in the Boys and Girls Town campus. It also benefits families and foster families that have contact through their outreach programs.
“They said they needed $10,000 for holiday stuff," Kayla Simmons said.
Simmons, the executive service chair at Lambda Sigma Pi, said that she became familiar with the Boys & Girls Town after her organization sponsored an event to introduce service organizations to fraternities and sororities.
“We are doing their active fundraising,” Simmons said of their part in the effort.
Their area of focus is the Missouri S&T campus. Their aim, she said, a dollar a student.
“If every student only donated a dollar, we would get $6,000," Simmons said.
Lambda Sigma Pi will looking to set up collection points where there is heavy student traffic, preferably near the Havener Center, she said.
Despite that goal, she doesn’t expect every student to donate, she is fully expecting to hear the “broke college student” excuse.
She said she is optimistic however that other students will contribute more then a dollar.
Although the main focus of the collection will be on the campus, that isn’t where it ends.
“Besides getting it out on the campus we will be going to local businesses,” Simmons said.
While Lambda will be out collecting money, B&GT will be working on promoting the collection.
Boys & Girls Town will be pushing the drive through newspapers, radio, and in other mediums to raise awareness.
“They have taken this program on their own and we are going to support them,” Rolwes said.
For more details contact Brett Rolwes at 265-3251 or brett.rolwes@bgtm.org or visit bgtm.org.