Sierra Youth Coalition Fundraiser: Executive Committee Skills Auction

Thank You to everyone who made a bid to support the Sierra Youth Coalition. You will receive an email from the Executive Member whose item you bid on shortly.

(English follows)

Salut à tous les membres de la CJS!

Notre conseil de direction (excomm) organise une vente aux enchères afin d’amasser des fonds pour la CJS! Cette vente est toute particulière : vous pouvez enchérir sur des services offerts par les membres du conseil de direction, qui sont tous très talentueux. Le conseil offrira des cours de cuisine, des cours de musique et une formation en communication pour ne nommer que ceux-là.

Vous pouvez envoyer une courriel à Adam@syc-cjs.org avec vos enchères. Les enchères fermeront le 30 septembre. La personne ayant placée le plus haut montant à cette date gagne! Nous avons besoin de votre appui afin que la CJS puisse continuer à offrir ses services importants à la jeunesse canadienne!

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Help support the Sierra Youth Coalition by making a bid in the Executive Committee Skills Auction. Your kind donations help support the projects and education programs we do with young Canadians to learn about environmental and social sustainability, challenge the current system, and advocate for a better future. In order to continue to provide our valuable services to youth across our country we require your support!

Please take a look at the available items below and send a silent bid via email with the title of the item and the amount you wish to bid to Adam@syc-cjs.org. Bidding will be updated with the highest bid every second day. The winner will be awarded to the highest bid before September 30th!

Need more incentive to bid? Check out the crazy things our ExComm will do if we reach our funding goal! (at end of skill listings)

ExComm Skills Auction

Just for Fun!

#1. Knit Custom-made Snowflake Slippers

Location: Anywhere! Must pay shipping if outside of Montreal

Description: Give 6 weeks to prepare slippers in correct size. See attached photo of my father sporting awesome snowflake slippers

ExComm Member: Jessica Magonet

Winning Bid: $25

 

#2. Two Hours of Beginners Music Lessons (Piano, Flute or Accordion)

Location: Edmonton

Description: You can use the instruments that I own if you don’t have your own. No skill or previous experience required!

ExComm Member: Louise Veillard

Winning Bid: $40

#3. Drawing of your Choice

Location: Anywhere

Description: Send me a photo of what you would like drawn or a description of an object or scene you would like. Must give 2 weeks notice.

ExComm Member: Louise Veillard

Winning Bid: $40

 

#4. Fair-trade Tea/Coffee Walking Tour through the Plateau/Mile-End

Location: Montreal

Description: Walking tour of one of the coolest areas in the city! First drink is on me!

Winning Bid: $30

 

#5. Microbrew Pub-Crawl (18+)

Location: Montreal

Description: Intellectual (or not) conversation! Invite your friends or make a possible instant friend! First drink is on me!

ExComm Member: Megan Poss

Minimum Bid: $20

 

#6. Editing up to 50 pages

Location: Anywhere

Description: I'll edit anything up to 50 pages -- an essay, a manifesto, a pamphlet, an epic poem.

ExComm Member: Ellen Quigley

Minimum Bid: $30

 

#7. Homemade Saskatoon Berry Pie

Location: Saskatoon & Environs

Description: Unbelievably delicious.

ExComm Member: Ellen Quigley

Minimum Bid: $10

#8. Your Choice of Homemade Baked Goods

Location: Guelph area

Description: Delicious baking (cookies and banana bread are my specialty but willing to do anything desired!)

ExComm Member: Joanna MacDonald

Minimum Bid: $10

 

#9. Decorative Collage

Location: Anywhere

Description: See picture

ExComm Member: Joanna MacDonald

 Minimum Bid: $10 each

#10. Nature Photography OR Beginners Photography Lesson

Location: Montreal or anywhere respectively (must pay extra for shipping photos if outside Montreal)

Description: Self-explanatory, bid on my photography! I can also give you introduction lessons to digital photography. In other words, a basic knowledge. http://erikhana.deviantart.com/gallery/


ExComm Member: Hana Sidiquee

Minimum Bid: $20

 

#11. Local, Vegetarian, 3-Course meal for 2

Location: Montreal

Description: For some exploration of the kind of things I cook and the extent of my quest for local food, you can take a look at the results of my month of local eating this summer: http://maggieknight.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/new-isolation-new-community/

ExComm Member: Maggie Knight

Minimum Bid: $25

#12. Cooking Workshop

Location: Montreal

Description: Come hang out and experiment in my kitchen for an afternoon! If your main mode of cookery currently involves a microwave, we can focus on some basic tried-and-true recipes. If you just want to try some new vegetarian or local recipes, the sky's the limit! Can be tailored to dietary restrictions and to accommodate limited budgets.

ExComm Member: Maggie Knight

Winning Bid: $20

#13. Outdoor Cooking 101

Location: Toronto

Description: Who thinks that camping means you can’t cook in style?

ExComm Member: Maryam Adrangi

Minimum Bid: $30

#14. Home-Baked Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Location: Ottawa

ExComm Member: Melissa Love

Winning Bid: $20

#15. 1 hour Swimming Lesson

Location: Ottawa

Description: 1 hour swimming lesson for any age and any level.

ExComm Member: Melissa Love

Minimum Bid: $10

 

Youth Sustainability Movement

#16. Green Your High School/CEGEP Workshop

 Location: Montreal

Description: Jessica was the co-founder of high school's environmental club and oversaw its many awesome campaigns, including the implementation of a composting system, a walk-to-school and bike-to-school program, the creation of a recycling center, and the planning of a national environmental conference. She will share her expertise on getting school environmental campaigns off the ground, fundraising, earning administrator support, and motivating teens to go green! Valid for 1 year

ExComm Member: Jessica Magonet 

Minimum Bid: $10

Winning Bid: $20

 

#17. Sustainability Project Planning Consultation

Location: Anywhere with internet

Description: Trying to get a new project up and running? Get a fresh perspective on your project plan to strengthen it and ensure buy-in from those you show it to!

ExComm Member: Louise Veillard

Minimum Bid: $10 

 

#18. Sponsorship Package

 Location: Anywhere with internet

Description: I can help conceive and create a professional looking sponsorship or outreach package that your club, organization, or event can use to approach a more 'corporate' audience. I can also help with refining copy (mission, vision, 'about', etc.) and provide strategic tips for approaching sponsors.

ExComm Member: Megan Poss

Minimum Bid: $25 

 

#19. Workshop on Presenting to 100 ten-year-olds

Location: Anywhere!

Description: After returning from the Copenhagen climate change conference Joanna decided it was important, even a duty, to try to educate and empower young children on issues of climate change. Thus, she has gone around to schools, community groups and organizations giving talks on climate change (what is it? why should you care? How to make a difference, etc.) If you are passionate about talking to people and motivating youth/children on climate change issues then this is the thing for you! Learn how to give an awesome presentation, get connected to a vast network of potential speaking opportunities, and best of all gain a colleague in the midst of it all!

Ex Com m Member: Joanna Macdonald

Winning Bid: $25

#20. Communication 101

Location: Toronto or elsewhere (but must pay for shipping)

Description: Whether it is communiticating your issue, advertising an event, getting people out or working with traditional media, communication is an integral part of organizing! in this workshop, gain skills about how to build your base and your network as well as communicate with the rest of the world.

Themes to cover:

• advertising
• communicating to your networks
• traditional media/press
• preparing for interviews
• and MORE!

ExComm Member: Maryam Adrangi

Minimum Bid: $50 

 

#21. Organizing 101

Location: Toronto or elsewhere (but must pay for shipping) Description: What is community organizing? What does it mean and how to we organize to win a campaign? In this workshop we will gain skills to organize people and groups on our campuses or in our communities and build or base to show the grassroots power behind our issues.

ExComm Member: Maryam Adrangi

Minimum Bid: $50 

 

#22. Personal/Individual Projects Mentorship with Tools and guidelines

Location: Montreal for in person or anywhere with internet

Description: If you have a small idea or project that you want to grow in your community. I can assist you by giving you the proper tools and guidelines to complete (they are small lessons plans). I can also be a mentor to help you bring change to your
community.

ExComm Member: Hana Sidiquee

Minimum Bid: $30 

 

#23. Social Media Campaign Development

Location: Anywhere with internet

Description: Help get your organization additional exposure through the use of social media. Development of the basic social networking tools and training for some staff/volunteer members to help extend the exposure that your NGO currently has. Using tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can increase the understanding and engagement that the public has and is a useful fundraising tool. The Facebook platform alone has passed the 500 Million user mark earlier in 2010, with more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. How is your organization tapping into educating and engaging these people? How will your organization adapt to the changes in technology? Help support the Sierra Youth Coaliton and learn how to captivate audiences with Web 2.0 tools which can bring you into extending your communication past emails and newsletters.

ExComm Member: Adam MacIsaac

Winning Bid: $100

#24. Traditional Media and/or Science Communication Training

Location: Ontario/Québec region (or anywhere via internet) (en anglais seulement)

Description: If you wish people knew more about the kind of work you do (be that NGO, small business, or academic) but aren't sure how to strategically communicate your message, this training is for you. An overview of the principles of working with traditional print and broadcast media, including how to target
your message, writing killer press releases, getting your message across in interviews, and media tracking, with an optional focus on science communication.

ExComm Member: Maggie Knight

Minimum Bid: $35

Crazy Challenge

If we reach our goal of raising $1500 cumulatively through the Skills Auction then …

• Jessica Magonet, Ellen Quigley will run up Mont Royal in their underwear with Maggie Knight accompanying them in costume.
• Megan Poss will face her fear of needles and get a tattoo OR dye her hair green for one month.
• Louise Veillard will shave her legs for the first time in 2 years
• Maggie Knight will go to Tam Tams in Montreal and stand on the monument, strip down to her bikini and do the “Ooooh! It’s hot in here” climate change song (possibly in both official languages if you’re lucky) in the cold of SEPTEMBER!
• Melissa Love will jump off the 4th tower at the Nepean Sportsplex Pool or the 3rd tower at the Carleton pool

If we exceed our goal and raise $5000…

 

• Louise Veillard will get the SYC logo tattooed on her buttocks.