Shinerama Campaign

This year marks Dalhousie's 44th year of involvement with Shinerama, as the campaign itself celebrates its 45th birthday.

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Now accepting submissions!

Submit your favourite recipe to Shinerama's community cookbook fundraiser and enter to win a student kitchen essentials prize pack!

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A RECIPE

All submissions are due by November 2!

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BIG NEWS!

Thanks to the help of approximately 1000 excited first years, some first-class Orientation Leaders, and a dedicated Orientation Committee, Shine Day, our biggest fundraiser, and Bling Bling, another popular O-Week event, collectively brought in $36 573.20, bringing us to a net total of $38 415.39, which doesn't even include the proceeds from our Swing for Shinerama golf tournament. Expect those totals in soon. All of this means that we anticipate making a donation to CCFF for the 2009 calendar year of over $40 000.

It's not too late to get involved! We have until December 31st to make that donation as big as possible!!!

Check back regularly for updates and news!

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Be sure to visit our local sponsor, Steamy's on Quinpool!

Steamy's offers the greatest poutine in town, and you can try one yourself as part of the Shine Combo, which includes a cheeseburger, small poutine, and pop for only $8.49, with $1 from every combo going to Shinerama!

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Current Total:

$38 415.39 !!!

Our Committment

This year, the Dalhousie Student Union will celebrate forty-four years of involvement with Shinerama, a fundraiser supporting the fight against Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Shinerama is Canada’s largest post-secondary fundraiser involving students at over 60 university and college campuses across the country.  To date, the Dalhousie community has raised over $682 000 for CF research and care.

What is Cystic Fibrosis?

Our Shinerama Campaign

While it began in 1964 as a shoe-shining campaign during Orientation week, the campaign has since grown to include a wide variety of shining and non-shining activities under the Shinerama banner. Throughout the entire summer, Dalhousie students will shine shoes, wash cars, coordinate raffles and barbeques, bar-blitzes, a golf tournament, as well as numerous other events, in support of cystic fibrosis research and care.  Dalhousie has rightfully earned the reputation as the Shinerama leader in the Atlantic Region.

Shinerama has become a huge tradition and success at Dalhousie. Each year students come together to help raise money for the fight against Cystic Fibrosis a fatal disease that mainly affects the respiratory and digestive systems. Over the past 45 years students across Canada have raised over $18,000,000 and during the past six years have come increasingly close to hitting the million dollar mark for a single year’s campaign. Help us make this year the first year we hit $1,000,000.

On September 8^nd, new and returning Dalhousie students will flood the streets of the Halifax Regional Municipality. We will not only shines shoes, we will clean up this whole city! Students will be armed with brooms, mops and buckets. They will pick up litter and do almost anything for a buck. Halifax will shine!

Our Shiners

Our ‘Shiners’ are some of the most active students on campus, and together encompass a large pool of dedicated and engaged Dalhousie students willing to do work on behalf of the Union, the  University and the surrounding community.  The Dalhousie Student Union represents approximately 16,000 students (92% Canadian, 8% International).  For the majority of these students, Shinerama provides an instant social network, it leaves students with a sense of civic responsibility while engaging them in the Dalhousie community.

Contact Information

For more information contact Daniel Boyle, our Shinerama Chair, at dan.boyle87@gmail.com or 802-8836, or Kris Osmond, the Shinerama Deputy Chair, at dsuvpsl@dal.ca or 494-1281.

For more information, please join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122875735419&ref=mf