This is one of the most creative ways we have ever seen to raise money. A few weeks ago, Courtney Barich was shopping for her Grad dress (Canadian equivalent of prom) when it hit her: this was a lot of money to pay for a dress she’d probably only use once. Her mom told her that she’d look good in anything…”even a garbage bag or a potato sack.” And that’s when the idea started.
Courtney decided she’d wear a burlap sack instead of a fancy dress and use the gimmick to raise money for an orphanage in the Philippines. Her goal was $10,000, and she probably envisioned going to prom in something like this:

But with the help of a college design student, she sported a handmade dress that looked like this:

She said the dress only used $3 of burlap, and the rest of the $40 dress was spent mostly on the thread to hold it together. Courtney’s efforts were hugely successful, as she raised over $10,000 for Saint Martin de Porres Orphanage in Manila.
Well done Courtney!
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