Schoolapalooza is a fundraising event for the Davis Joint Unified School District as part of the Dollar-a-Day Campaign, organized by the Davis Schools Foundation (DSF) together with the Davis Downtown Business Association.
April 24, 2010 was the 3rd such event, from noon to 4:30 PM. Activities were centered at the E Street Plaza. In addition to musical entertainment and raffles, fifty-three Davis businesses donated a portion of their proceeds to the DSF. Some businesses extended their special deals beyond Saturday.
Nearly $75,000 was donated during the 2010 Schoolapalooza.
Some features of the event:
- Two stages for performances, one at the E Street Plaza and another one in front of the Varsity Theatre.
- A fashion show, with junior high students modeling items from Lily's Fashion Lounge and Outdoor Davis. Both stores gave 10 percent of their Saturday proceeds to DSF.
- Jazz bands from all three junior high schools, the popular youth band Hotwire, and the Davis High School Madrigals and Advanced Treble Choir.
- Raffle tickets at $1 per ticket or 25 tickets for $20, purchased at the E Street Plaza and then placed in raffle boxes for prizes at shoppers' favorite stores. The business owners drew the winning raffle tickets after Schoolapalooza ends and contacted the winner; there was no need to be present to win.
- If you brought in a flier from Caffe Italia or Cultivé, the restaurant would donate 100 percent of its sales from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to DSF. If you brought in a flier from Chipotle, it would donate 50 percent of burrito proceeds.
- Annie's Homegrown, an organic food company, provided reusable shopping bags packed with Annie's products as thank-you gifts for people who donated to Dollar-a-Day at Schoolapalooza.
Participating businesses included: ACE Hardware, Alphabet Moon, Annie's Homegrown, Apex Cycles, The Avid Reader, B&L Bike Shop, Baciarini's Martial Arts, Balance Point Pilates Studio, Baskin Robbins, Ben & Jerry's, Alphabet Moon, Bizarro World, Caffe Italia, Casa Verde Designs, Coldwell Banker, Cultivé, Davis Food Co-op, Davis Sport Shop, de Luna Jewelers, Dynamics Hair & Massage Studio, Fiesta DanceN' Fitness, Five Figs Couture, Fleet Feet, Fuzio, Gerner Chiropractic, Hallmark Inn, Hibbert Lumber, Just Kidding, Kaplan Educational Center, Lily's Fashion Lounge, Mother & Baby Source, nestware, Newsbeat, Outdoor Davis, The Paint Chip, Pence Gallery, Pinkadot, Pomegranate Salon, Seasons, Shuz of Davis, Smooth as Silk, Strands, Teach Your Children, Thai Nakorn, USE Credit Union, Watermelon Music, The Wardrobe, Woodstocks Pizza
