From February 6-10, Spectrum, a club at Revere High School, will be sponsoring and selling Candy Grams for their Valentine’s themed fundraiser. 

The fundraisers main goals were to raise money for both the club and a separate organization, The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization. Sage Owens, Spectrum Club president, approached one of the club’s advisers, Jason Milczewski, to put the plan into motion.

“They were trying to find something that not a lot of other groups were doing, and they wanted to link it to a holiday, and generally, selling candy is a good fundraiser at school,” Milczewski said. 

Each two dollar candy gram will include a bag of five pieces of candy with an attached note written by the sender. To successfully send them out, the student must write the name of the recipient and the recipient’s seventh period class. According to Owens, for delivery, the bags are separated by wings (math wing, language wing, etc.) and then delivered during the seventh period by club members. Historian Alecia Kunka’s job is to take care of the media for the club. She outlined what her part was in the sale, a job which is similar to what many club members will also be doing.

“I am going to be selling [during] ‘C’ lunch, and then I’m also helping to hand out candy on Valentine’s Day,” Kunka said.

The club has not had many fundraising opportunities in the past and this will be one of their first in a few years. 

“Our last fundraiser that I am aware of is when I was in eighth grade, they collected money to get LGBTQ+ books in the library,” Owens said. 

The profits from this sale will go in part to the club but also in part to the Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is an organization that provides support to students in the LGBTQ+ community. This could look like educating the educators in schools about their students, providing crisis services or conducting large research projects, all in hopes of discovering better ways to help young students struggling with their identities.