I came up with an idea for a contest to spark more involvement from you guys. We’ll run a competition for the best comments on our posts and the winner gets to have a post on their favourite cause or what they are involved in. All activities have to fit within the boundaries of this blog.
To qualify you have to make 3 comments. That means you have to leave at least 3 comments on our previous posts. For your part the posts have to be legitimate and add to the conversation and no advertisements.
For our part we’ll contact you and let you pick what cause or organization you would like to see get some press. So you can determine who gets the fortune and fame.
Our little contest will run for two weeks starting March 8 and running until March 19.
A couple of posts back I mentioned a fundraising campaign in Detroit or Boston that asked for a dollar contribution to their organization for children. They ran a few commercials about this a couple of weeks ago.
Is this wringing some bells of anybody? Sorry guys I can’t remember any other info about this campaign. I wanted to follow up and see how that fundraising campaign worked for them.
If you think you might know what I’m rambling about drop me a comment. I’d like to find out.
In the meantime tell me what’s working in your fundraising efforts in your part of the world.
Ok people gather round, because we really need to talk about this one.
I was recently on the hungersite and its sister sites for the yearly wrap up. Every year they summarize what the donations have totaled for the year. I checked the stats for the hungersite and they said 52 million cups of rice served and I was then ASTOUNDED to find that the animal rescue site recorded over 90 million!
Now my numbers might be off, since they have taken them down, but I do remember calculating a difference of over 26 million more bowls of dog food served than rice to human beings.
Can someone please explain that to me!
I want to be very careful here, I’m not pointing my finger at the hungersite. They are just the vessel which these donations come from. The issues here is why there is such a HUGE discrepency between animals and humans. This is coming from people who make it a point to once a day come and donate to the animal rescue site and never bother to go to the hungersite. WHY? Is the extra 30 seconds too much of a bother to ya? You can click through all six of thier donation sites in less than a minute. Where’s the problem?
Part of the difference in numbers could be the sale of items for that particular cause which may get translated into food. But again the problem remains why such a large difference with human beings trailing behind. Priorities people……priorites!
Why people….WHY are we valueing an animals importance over a human beings? Again listen to what I’m saying. I’m not arqueing the importance of helping an animal or charitable acts towards that goal but I am saying that for the same price you can help BOTH. There’s no reason why we should value an animal over a human. Call me old fashioned but to me the priority is clear on this.
Before I start getting lots of nasty emails from animal lovers out there I’m clarifying this as best as I can. I am not against animals nor your caring for them but c’mon!
Nope sorry, I’m crying fowl and awarding lots of yellow cards here.
IGo back to the beginning and try again this year.
I’ve been spending time watching some incredible TV lately. Last weekend the National Geographic channnel showed a 6 part documentary called World War 2: The Apocalypse . If you get a chance you should watch it. The footage is so clean and it’s been colorized which I thought really added to it. 6 hours to remind you of what soldiers had and have to go through.
I got an email from Robin Beck the lead organizer of World Blog Action Day. It summarizing the events which I found quite interesting:
We hit 31,000 total trackable blog posts, and our current estimate is that together we reached at least 17.9 million people yesterday. We just exceeded 13,000 registered bloggers on the site and are working to get all of you who posted but haven’t yet registered into the final count.
We had at least three major world governments as active participants in this year’s event. United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown posted the first Blog Action Day entry in Britain at the stroke of midnight on the 15th, which was followed by Foreign Minister David Milliband and many others from the UK stationed around the world. The PSOE governing party of Spain hosted a bloggers event focused on climate change and transformed their website for the day to promote Blog Action Day. And late in the day, President Barack Obama’s White House blog joined in become part of the global movement of bloggers shaking the web.
Hopefully with these numbers and this amount of interest we can make something happen at the next international climate negotations in Copehagen.
Warning! This post asks for involvement. You have been warned!
All right so its been a hard road economically for the past year. Some PTO groups are reporting a dip in their fundraising by 20 to 50%! In this situation everyone is taxed. There is more strain put on schools to maintain operating budgets and the extras are being cut away. New uniforms for band and sports equipment, school trips and library upgrades are being put on hold for better times.
Not just schools but churches and medical causes are all feeling the pinch. The good news is there is a glimmer of economic recovery on the horizon. The experts are still unsure when we’ll all be able to feel it, but things look like they are improving.
Until then what have you been doing to cope with lower fundraising numbers? Maybe we can pass around some good ideas to help those schools / organizations that are being squeezed.
Here’s what’s happening in the causes and charities world for Oct:
October is devoted to:
World Blindness Awareness Month
National Breast Cancer Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
Squirrel Awareness Month ( Yup seriously )
Daily Observances:
Oct 2-4 – National Fall Firefighters Weekend
Oct 3 – Alternative Fuel Day
Oct 5 – Child Health Day
Oct 8 – National Children’s Day
Oct 9 – Leif Erikson Day
Oct 10 – Universal Music Day
Oct 12 – Columbus Day / Thanksgiving
Oct 15 – White Cane safety Day
Oct 16 – National Boss Day
Oct 17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Oct 24 – United Nations Day
Oct 25 – Mother-In-Law Day
Oct 28 – National Chocolates Day
Oct 31 – Halloween (not an actual “cause” but hey it’s fun!)
I want to see everyone out this month becoming more squirel aware!
I came up with an idea for a contest to spark more involvement from you guys. We’ll run a competition for the best comments on our posts and the winner gets to have a post on their favourite cause or what they are involved in. All activities have to fit within the boundaries of this blog.
Give us a friend request at: justfundraising
I got an email from Robin Beck the lead organizer of World Blog Action Day. It summarizing the events which I found quite interesting:
Warning! This post asks for involvement. You have been warned!
