Alisha and I have been pounding the pavement working within our community to find their 'give back' type programs. We are working ever angle we can to raise the 100k we need by January. Yes, you read that correctly. We have been very excited to see just how many local businesses and chain restaurants offer some type of give back program but here's where I * jump on the soap box - there.is.always.a.catch. ALWAYS.
What one would assume is a generous company willing to give some of their proceeds to help an awesome cause is actually a ploy in marketing to see if our organization can get more people in the door than normally would eat or shop at said give back location. So besides there being a specific time that you can fundraise you also aren't able to stand outside and let people know to mention your organization when they check out b.c the horror - we might get each and every person in that evening to say our name and therefore the small percentage they are offering would be given to help change Haitian lives forever instead of lining their pockets with just a little more profit. What is a little profit to them for one evening with a time frame is life and death, or the reality of having to decide which child to sell in order to pay for the rest of the family to eat for that week to the Haitians. So these give back programs really are a way for a company to feel like they are being generous but if they were really being generous and cared about making the world a better place (we don't mind a time frame) we just want to be able to stand outside and let people know to mention us. Because hundreds of dollars really will change lives forever. *steps off soap box
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