Fundraising

Successful fundraising events allow us to fund our scholarships, our youth program awards, donations to child abuse prevention programs and respond to requests for assistance from other community organizations. Listed below are a few of the events.

Fight Night – The year 2019 will mark the 30th anniversary of this major fundraiser. It is a distinctive charity amateur boxing tournament, sanctioned by the New England and National Boxing Commissions, and coordinated in partnership with the Lawrence Boxing Club. It consists of a full course dinner, ten amateur bouts, raffles, and silent auctions. To be successful it requires an extreme amount of work, and it is expected that our membership is prepared to participate to the best of their ability.

Prevention of Child Abuse – is the National Project of the National Exchange Club and local Exchange clubs across the country. Due to the efforts of some of our members, we are fortunate to have the Michael B. Christensen Child Abuse Prevention Center in Lawrence, which is named for a former member and Past President of our club. This center serves scores of families from Lowell to Newburyport, and Salem, NH. With the assistance of the other Exchange clubs in the Merrimack Valley, we help fund the Center sponsoring an annual golf tournament which raises approximately $20,000.00 each year.

Cigar Nights – have been a significant source of revenue for several years, consisting of an excellent full course prime rib dinner, a liquor tasting, raffles, and a silent auction. A Raffle grand prize of 100, $20.00 scratch tickets has made this new fundraiser an easy sell and a quick moneymaker.

Ad Book Club – offers advertisers the opportunity to be seen at all of our fundraising and award functions at a very reasonable rate.