Being a part of Junior Achievement has been a great way for our entire agency to get involved in the community. It also means that we get to do stuff like job shadowing and fundraising. Just a couple of weeks ago we did another round of job shadowing, this time with a terrific group of 8th graders (it always amazes me how much these kids know about technology and the internet).

(The job shadowing group)

It’s also fundraising time and the team is doing some really fun stuff to drum up excitement and money. They did traditional fundraising activities, like a bake sale and raffles. But, because we don’t take ourselves too seriously, the team tossed in some fundraisers that have been a lot of fun around the office, like a Ping-Pong Tournament and Poker night.

(The bake sale. I hear Shannon’s banana bread is famous now.)

(The poker tournament)

Then, there is the Pie-the-Executive/Manager contest. The fundraising will be capped off with a Pie-ing of the executives, including myself at our Holiday Party in December. However, the first round of pie-ings happened today with our managers. How this worked was: employees bidded against each other to pie each person, the highest bid earning the right to pie.

Pictures won’t do this justice, check out the videos:

Arthur Pies Donovan:

Claire Pies Travis:

Jamie Pies Donovan (apparently he was popular):

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