Community Involvement

• Host a day camp for those with hearing loss
• Get involved with Special Olympics Healthy Hearing
• Sponsor a Thanksgiving food drive
• Go to a Children's Museum and teach children how to protect their hearing. Incorporate games about the ear. Teach them the importance of wearing earplugs
• Engage in Habitat for Humanity activities
• Volunteer at al local food shelter
• Contact a local schools and give a presentation to a science or health class about ears and hearing
• Conduct hearing screenings at a community health fair and provide resources about hearing loss as well as hearing conservation
• Speak at a local Lions Club, Sertoma, or other service club in the community
• Create a Jolene mannequin to teach children about noise exposure

Advocacy

• Go to your local Legislative office and push for Direct Access
• Host an "Advocacy Afternoon" on a Friday. Order some pizza, play some music, and get together to write letters/send e-mails to your Congressman.
• Create an advocacy challenge between your AuD classes to see who can write the most letters, donate to the PAC, or visit your local legislative office

Fundraising

• Sell tickets for your major league baseball team
• Work concession stands at sporting functions
• Sell re-usable grocery bags
• Host a bake sale
• Restaurant fundraising: Hand out
  "Support SAA" tickets. Present those tickets at a restaurant you have paired up with and 15-20% of all bills goes towards SAA chapter
• Get your chapter members together and have a yard sale
• Help plan a "fun run" or 5K in your area
• Set-up an SAA Cafe in your student lounge and sell drinks and snacks
• Host a student-faculty lunch and sell tickets for $10
• Create SAA chapter t-shirts or mugs to sell to students, faculty, and staff
• Local gun club
  • Hearing protection
  • Do they have charity events?
  • Contact earmold company
  • Custom and instamolds
• Daycare Hearing Screenings
  • Permission slip sent to day cares to go home with parents
  • $10
  • Good practice for audiology students
  • Get first year students involved in screenings
  • 2x/year
  • Flyers for swim molds
• (Ear)Resistable wristbands
  • Sell to community, students, local audiologists
  • "I support Direct Access" wristbands

Social

• 3rd Year send off party
• 1st year welcome picnic (Host a "Scavenger Hunt" that helps 1st year students locate key places in your university and/or department)
• Get together at a local bar/restaurant and watch your University's sport team
• Plan a picnic at a local park for all your chapter members
• Host a holiday potluck dinner
• Plan a camping trip over the weekend
• Put together a kickball team (or any other sport!) and compete in a local league