June 5th, 2005
First Report on National Cancer Survivors Day
We had a National Cancer Survivors Day celebration this afternoon at Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church. Thanks to more volunteers than I can name, it came off beautifully. We had basic summer picnic food with salads, potato salad, cole slaw, hot dogs (and tofu substitutes for the vegetarians), and several desserts. We had face painting, spin art, sand art, and a moonwalk for the kids. The Wall of Hopes and Memories, where people posted pictures and stories about survivors of, and loved ones lost to, cancer, was a touching tribute. I saved what I could from the bulletin board and scanned what needed to be returned.
I don’t have the final numbers for donations or expenses, but there were $625 of direct donations to the Ride for the Roses and probably about $200 more of donations in excess of expenses, thanks to the Live Oak Community Outreach covering most (or all) of the expenses. I won’t know final numbers on that for a bit. None of this money will show up in my progress reports for 2-4 weeks because it’s all being mailed to Houston for processing by the LAF donation secure mailbox people.
Total (as a I mentioned, not including the NCSD donations) as of today: $3,606.13. We’re actually still very close to the targets for raising $25,000 by the end of August. This week our outreach is going to be focused on an email campaign to friends. The results of that will also probably have a long lag (mailing, delays until they read, delays in processing donations sent by mail), so we will probably fall further behind our target rate. I’m hoping in 2-5 weeks we’ll be seeing the delayed effect of mail-in donations and catch up.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
[...] So far, I’ve approached about half of my address book by email. We’ve mailed about half of the people on our normal holiday greeting card (which we completly failed to send last year, so we are including an update as well as the fundraising pitch). We’ve run three reasonably successful events: a National Cancer Survivors Day at our church, Tour Watch 2005 throughout the Tour de France, and a raffle at It’s a Grind our favorite coffee shop. We started working the “tell a friend” option by emailing out to people who have donated and asking them to tell their friends. That has been very successful. [...]