I want to let everyone know where we stand on the rest of the fundraisers. I heard back from our CI contact today that said responses from the field should be expected to take about 6 weeks. Wilfredo's project information should be here in a couple of weeks for Aila's project. Heather G's sponsored child Diego and Holly's sponsored child Yoselyn will be next in line after Aila. Heather G & Holly G's requests should arrive by the end of June. Tamara's sponsored children Jhonalyn & Angelito (sharing a fundraiser) will have their requests after Heather & Holly's.
As you can see, we still have a lot of waiting to do to get the information for the other projects. With that being said, please e-mail me ASAP if you have a fundraiser in mind for this year. Requests will take 6 weeks, so it is imperative that we get the requests in to CI as soon as we have one in mind.
I am not sure how long it will take to complete Jester's fundraiser, but I am HOPING that we will have Wilfredo's information by the time Jester's funds.
Other requests that have been submitted to CI & are pending responses for the next round of fundraisers:
Robyn's child Wilmer
Barbara's child Nsenzeni
Heather's child Jonathan
Su's fundraiser already has info, but she will be in the rotation as well.
Chrystal, did you request another one? If so, please send the info again, so I can make sure it was requested.
Wilfredo, I think we need to wait and see what the special needs for Aila turns out to be on this round before we request another one for the same child.
Heather G & Holly G, my e-mail is acting up, but I know I have your requests for the next round, & it has been sent to CI.
Tamara, Did you want to participate in the next round? If so, do you want me to request bed quotes for the rest of the kids?
Did I miss anyone? Mack, Jennifer, and Alice have fundraisers pending in the larger group with Stephanie. If any of you have smaller ones that you want me to do, let me know.
If any of the rest of you want to put in a request, send the usual information to me at kidscanchange@gmail.com
Thanks!
Heather
Now, here is some information for Stephanie's group of fundraisers:
Guidelines for projects over $500 -
In order to start a fundraising project for one of your sponsored children that requires $500+ dollars in donations, I will need to obtain the following information from you:
1. The letter from CI stating the $ amount of the project + the items that will be purchased with the funds.
2. A few personally written paragraphs introducing your child and the project you wish to raise funds for. You can provide facts from his/her family profile, quote letters, etc.
3. Some photographs of your child, especially ones that show his/her living conditions (if possible).
We will be capping our large projects at $2500. So you would have to pay anything above that.
We are keeping the large projects (anything over $500) separate from the under $500's. I am happy to help you put by getting the page together and letting everyone at the Google group know about it etc. But the big projects are not going to be included in the pay it forward model that we are using for the smaller ones. We won't expect you to pay forward 25% of this project - nor will we expect other sponsors to pay into your project as part of their own pay it forward percentage. We just don't think the small circle of sponsors at the Google group can support large projects and also we don't expect that many sponsors would be able to pay forward 25% of such a large project. That's why we are keeping them separate. So this means that you will have to be more involved in fund raising by promoting the project on a personal blog, amongst your friends and family etc. I'm sure that other sponsors will support your project but we can't expect them to be able to be the only people helping out. There just aren't enough of us to fully fund the large projects. :(
So, essentially, we will help by setting up the page for you, telling the Google group about it and using the account we already have set up with CI. The rest will mostly be up to you.
Please email me if you have any additional questions.
- Stephanie Amythyst69@aol.com
No comments:
Post a Comment