We just wanted to thank everyone who participated in last weekend’s Run for a Reason in NYC. We had about 25 runners join us in the 5 mile run through Central Park. Through your AWESOME efforts you all helped raise $13000 for 13 different charities and causes. Overall, it was a great weekend and we look forward to next year’s run!
Here are a few pictures from the event. You can check out the rest of the album on Facebook
My sweet mom sent me one of those feel good emails today. Don’t tell her, but usually I erase them without reading them…I’m a total sap and tear at anything that involves random acts of kindness, animals, or dying wishes.
But something told me today’s email would be valuable, so I read it. The email was a short story about a passenger who boarded a plane and was suddenly surrounded by U.S. soldiers heading off to Iraq. One soldier asked another if he was going to pay $5 for the on flight meal, and he responded that he thought that was too expensive for a sack lunch. The passenger then took $50 to the flight attendant to buy the soldiers’ lunches. This one act inspired three other passengers to contribute $25 to the lunch (which was given to the soldiers) and left the original Good Samaritan with a first-class lunch and a round of applause from the rest of the passengers.
When I read this, I realized that most people don’t ever get to understand what a matching gift really means. (That is, in fact, what the Good Samaritan experienced). read more…
Water is the gift of life. We hear that often – but ask anyone who has suffered months of drought and they will tell you, indeed, this truth is more powerful than we might ever imagine.
Every day we are bombarded with statistics about how many people in the world are experiencing certain hardships; twelve million are refugees, over a billion live below the poverty line and countless others are deprived of adequate health care. But without putting a face to the statistic, we often experience a sense of resignation in the face of such unsettling facts. read more…
I’m off to give a presentation about young donors at the Youth Communication Chicago Board meeting but before I head out, I wanted to share with you all the great news!
Individual fundraisers on GiveForward.org have raised $21,455 as of this afternoon. That is $21,000 that is going to amazing causes like stem cell research, animal rescue clinics, canvassing for presidential candidates, and more. read more…
GiveForward wants to give a shout out to Aron “the fundraising dominator” Grossman for being the first GFer in GiveForward history to reach 100% of his fundraising goal.
This fundraising stud is raising money for the Fresh Air Fund, an organization that provides free summer vacations to inner-city kids from NYC. You can check out his page here.
Aron is one of over forty people running in GiveForward’s Run for a Reason five-mile fun run next weekend in New York City. Although Aron has admittedly never run five consecutive miles in his life, Aron decided to be like Gheorghe Muresan, and “score one for the kids.” Way to go, Aron!!
For all the ladies out there, you can catch a glympse of this big-hearted, fundraising stud at 8:30 AM on October 26th as he completes his history making, first ever, five mile run through Central Park.
Anyway, if you’re reading this Aron, we just wanted to say “Congratulations” on this monumental accomplishment. GiveForward will be sending you a congratulatory bottle of Gheorghe Mursesan cologne for your efforts.
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GiveForward’s “Run for a Reason” is two weeks away and we’re happy to say that Team GiveForward has raised over $5000 so far a number of different charities and causes. So far there are about 45 people signed up to run the race with us on the 26th and many of them have been busy raising money for their favorite charities. For everyone who has been busy fundraising, great job and keep up the good work.
We’ll keep a running tally of our total raised and add more updates on the blog as the race approaches.
Thanks again for all your hard work!
Well, I think it’s about time we get this video up. Cause it’s awesome, and you need to get Barack Rolled. After the jump. read more…
Our economy is in the tank; your 401(k) has taken a nosedive and you’re about to ask Grandma Elsie for her favorite Depression era recipe for shoe soup. We know it’s not pretty out there, and trust us, we feel your pain. That’s why we’ve decided to come to the rescue. That’s right, you heard it here first, folks. After days of negotiation, the powers that be at GiveForward have passed an historic $300 bailout plan to jumpstart the old economic engines.
OK, so maybe it’s not as monumental as $700 billion, but we are giving away 300 smackers to help jumpstart your fundraising efforts. Here’s how the GF bailout plan works:
On October 26th GiveForward is traveling to New York to Run for a Reason in the Poland Springs Marathon Kickoff Fun Run.
If you are running with us on the 26th, you are eligible for either of the two cash prizes below
You can keep the cash prizes for yourself, donate them to your charity or use them as incentives to get people to donate (e.g. tell your friends and family that if they help you win the contest by donating to your fundraiser, you will give away the prize to one randomly selected donor).
On October 26th 2008 GiveForward will be in New York ‘running for a reason’ to raise money for our favorite charities in the Poland Springs New York Marathon Kickoff Fun Run.
We aren’t in good enough shape to run the NY Marathon, but we’re pretty confident we can conquer a five mile fun run through Central Park. The idea behind ‘Run for a Reason’ is that unlike most charity races where everyone runs for the same charity, with this event, you get to run for the charity or cause that is most important to YOU.
If you are interested in joining us, send us an email (ethan@giveforward.org) and let us know, sign up for your GF fundraising page, and make sure to register for the race before Oct 11th. It’s $25 to register. $30 after the 11th. You can register at http://www.nyrr.org/races/2008/r1026x00.asp
Hope to see you all out there!
So, today in Colorado, Sarah Palin said that, and I pull a quote directly from CNN, Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists.” Apparently, Ms. Six-Pack American doesn’t know any Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade, but knows who Obama’s nearest and dearest friends are – the terrorists.
Basically, here’s my point. Sarah Palin has to be ready to lead at a moment’s notice, I believe is the parlance being used. Is empty rhetoric what we need right now? Please please please visit the A Million For Obama page here at giveforward, throw in a buck, and tell all your friends they can do the same. It’s not a lot of money to spend to make sure we get a Executive Branch that can go beyond mind-bogglingly absurd attacks.
