Now i have to start planning for my February 2009 deadline - $6000 (april 2009 i will need $9000). I am holding a hotdog/cookie sale on Dec 6 @ the front entrance to Zellers @ Central City Mall. come see me - i will be there all day till the hotdogs & HOMEMADE Chocolate Chip Cookies are sold out!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Surprises, deadlines & a hotdog/cookie sale
So this past friday I got my reminder email from Rebecca, my Team Diabetes co-ordinator, about my first deadline on December 5, 2008. I was $1049 short of the $3000 needed for Dec 5th. Ok - not bad - I had just mailed out a cheque that morning for $335 - then i knew i had to really push it to raise the rest of it before the deadline. Saturday evening i went to my mom's work Christmas party, where i was surprised to learn that all the proceeds from the raffle draws were going to be donated to Diabetes association fundraising i was doing! I cried - but in amazement that this was actually happening! Thanks to Zellers Central City $500 was raised that night! THANK YOU!! Plus a few extra donations that came in on the weekend - i have no surpassed my Dec 5th Deadline!
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That's amazing!!!
Candice, a good friend of ours recently held a fund raising event at the Irish Heather pub in Gastown (actually at their Shebeen Whiskey House, a separate room behind the pub). He invited all his friends, acquaintances and colleagues and made a huge invite on Facebook. His fund raising efforts were for an upcoming trip to Uganda where he's planning to volunteer at an orphanage. The funds would go directly to the orphanage.
Needless to say, it was very successful and he didn't spend a dime.
Actually, I shouldn't say that he didn't spend a dime, but his costs were quite minimal. He had a shoe box where people could put in money and he also had a booklet where people could write how much money they were planning to donate, as he would write them a receipt. It's just an idea, but a suggestion! :)
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