Well, this one might be boring to some, and informative to others. Therefore, I shall post with as much accuracy as possible while omitting any unnecessary information.
So it all started really slow, members sending out letters to family and friends about raising support to send the team. By this point, we had just come down to eight or so members. So we were raising slowly. and money came in by twenties and fifties... Very nice and all, but considering we had over $21 000 as a goal, we were not 100% sure how things were going to go. We KNEW we weren't going anywhere at that rate. Then our good Terry started her fundraising. and ended her part in like a month or two. We each had an individual goal of $2 900. So what she did was amazing. She had asked at her work place, held public fundraisers at work, informed friends in advance, and really kept the ball rolling with a few shared events with the other ladies such as a fashion show, a bake sale I think, and a few other things. So she helped the team pull together and helped us pull our fundraisers together. We had a car-wash planned, but it never happened due to a lack of time and the goal having been met. We had a face-painting fundraiser on Canada day, give as you please idea. We had money coming in from family and friends and some people we barely recognized their faces. We had some other fundraisers, but I do not remember all the details. I received a pledge that I had to work off at 20$ an hour (still not done yet :O ). So on, so forth. We ended up with something like $20 000 (which was $2 000 over since our goal had become 18 000 when two members had to drop out).
Sorry it was a bit longer than expected, but God provides, PERIOD.
So it all started really slow, members sending out letters to family and friends about raising support to send the team. By this point, we had just come down to eight or so members. So we were raising slowly. and money came in by twenties and fifties... Very nice and all, but considering we had over $21 000 as a goal, we were not 100% sure how things were going to go. We KNEW we weren't going anywhere at that rate. Then our good Terry started her fundraising. and ended her part in like a month or two. We each had an individual goal of $2 900. So what she did was amazing. She had asked at her work place, held public fundraisers at work, informed friends in advance, and really kept the ball rolling with a few shared events with the other ladies such as a fashion show, a bake sale I think, and a few other things. So she helped the team pull together and helped us pull our fundraisers together. We had a car-wash planned, but it never happened due to a lack of time and the goal having been met. We had a face-painting fundraiser on Canada day, give as you please idea. We had money coming in from family and friends and some people we barely recognized their faces. We had some other fundraisers, but I do not remember all the details. I received a pledge that I had to work off at 20$ an hour (still not done yet :O ). So on, so forth. We ended up with something like $20 000 (which was $2 000 over since our goal had become 18 000 when two members had to drop out).
Sorry it was a bit longer than expected, but God provides, PERIOD.
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