Bands!

Well sometime this week (hopefully tomorrow or Thursday) I will try and go speak with an owner of a local bar/pub to see if they would let me setup a band night. I have two bands on board. One is quite popular here in the region and the other is a start up one. I know most everyone involved in both bands and let me just say that they have some great talent involved. I'm confident that if they both played we'd have a packed house.

Also the winner of the 50/50 Oscar Pool at my moms work decided to donate her winnings back to my fund raising goal. I honestly wasn't expecting that so that was pretty cool.

Now I'm selling raffle tickets for the annual Knights of Columbus charity draw. They're allowing Joints in Motion members to sell tickets and 40% of the proceeds of what we sell goes back to our marathon. There's 24 prizes ranging from cars to trips to cash prizes. $2 a ticket and $10 for a book of 5. Why wouldn't you buy some?

Anyways, that's about it.

Funds Needed: $3,900!
Raised So Far: $443.50
Funds Left To Go: $3,456.50

Oscar Pool Was A Success!

Well the 50/50 Oscar Pool went better then expected. I managed to get $73 in total from my moms work so split that in half and the winner received $36.50 and I was able to put $36.50 towards my fund raising. The Oscar Pool at my work came together in the last days and I manged to get $67. So again split that in half and the winner gets $33.50 and I can put $33.50 towards the fund raising. I was definitely surprised by the outcome and in total I managed to put $70 towards my fund raising. I'm extremely happy with that.

Funds Needed: $3,900
Funds Raised: $406
Funds Left To Go: $3,494

Unexpected

So the Oscar Pool at work has come together quite nicely. I really wasn't expecting to raise as much as I did but between the one my mom did at her work and my work I'll probably be able to put around $75 into my fund raising. Which is good since running this pool cost me nothing. And the good thing is is that now a lot more people at work are aware of what I'm doing and what's it's for.

Anyways, there's some more fund raising plans in the works so hopefully they play out.

By the way the Oscars are this Sunday at 8pm EST on ABC! Should be a boringly long show like usual. Go Paul Greengrass! United 93 is a truly magnificent film by the way.

Things are in motion...

Well we had a meeting Tuesday night at the local Arthritis Society office to meet some of the staff and other runners. Unfortunately it was just myself and one other runner and four staff members. The downside is that I work with the other runner, Terry. He's run the Dublin Marathon and the New York City Marathon for the Joints in Motion program and he's the one who got me interested in it.

The meeting went well though. We work slightly differant hours so I don't really get a chance to talk to him all that much so it was good to be able to sit down and get ideas and bounce back and forth with everyone. I came home with a long list of ideas and hopefully we can team up for a few events.


Today I met with a lady who helped me plan out my fund raising goals and events and pick dates for events and get things going. It went very well. I would have been lost without some guidance and thank God for her.

I know have a garage sale planned (maybe two), a charity car wash (most likely a bikini car wash; and no I will not be in a bikini), and some band nights at some local pubs/bars. Those will be the hardest since I don't know any of the owners/managers.

I have also ordered some raffle tickets from the Knights of Columbus who sponsor the Arthritis Society. This year they're letting Joints in Motion participants sell raffle tickets and roughly half of what we sell goes into our fund raising. The gym I work at has partnered with the Arthritis Society to open their pool up for a day in April to be called "The Big Swim" and it's free to the public. So I will be, hopefully, setting a table up at the gym and have info and pledge sheets and raffle tickets set out for people to see.

So things are in motion and it's looking good now.

Still here!

Still here just not much has happened recently. Though there will be some updates coming so stay tuned!

fundrasing

Damn what a bitch this is. I have a meeting in a few weeks with someone from the Arthritis Society to see how it's all going and provide some assistance. Hopefully I can get some better ideas.

As for the Oscar Pool, well it seems to be going good. I have some people interested and some folks have mentioned they'll be buying more then one ballot, which is cool.

I'm also planning a garage sale in the summer time and I'll probably ask people if they wouldn't mind donating anything they don't need or want. Books, CD's, DVD's, VHS, toys etc. Whatever. If I get enough stuff and don't sell a lot of it, I'll just hold another one and then donate the rest to the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy. They do house to house pickups and sell whatever it is you don't want. All the proceeds go back to them of course. So I'd be helping two charities out.

Anyways, that's about it for now.

Funds Needed: $3,900
Funds Raised: $328

updates

Haven't posted in a few days.

I have a new workout routine going. Still four days a week but I felt like changing it up since I was getting bored with my old one. Still planning it out a little but I should be comfortable with it by next week.

I've handed out plenty of Oscar Pool ballots around work so hopefully I get some interest. It'd be nice to turn a good profit but time will tell. I've run off more ballots and next week I'll pimp it up some more.

I won $500 from a Super Bowl pool this past weekend so some of that is being put towards to the marathon. I'll be making another trip to Sport Nutrition Depot soon so this win came along just in time.

Oscar Pool...

Damn.

Went into work today with 30 copies and came home with two leftover. I'm making more and revising the letter on the front. I had some people quite interested so hopefully it goes well! The more people at work who about my marathon run the better.

It's a 50/50 draw and it's $3 for one ballot or $5 for two ballots and you can enter as many times as you want. I passed some ballots around and told people they can drop them off to me or my manager. I had a lot of interest so know it's time to make some more copies!

Funds Needed: $3,900
Current Funds Raised: $218