Friday, September 5, 2008

Earrings for Africa! - Update II


(Recap: Earrings for Africa! is a fundraising project that my good friend Jenna is spearheading to help me as I prepare to take off on EWB's dime)

The thanks continue! Your support has been fantastic so far.

To the point then...
Fundraising Goal (not just the jewelry, but in total): $750.00
Day 30
Number of people in the facebook group: 70 (!!!)
Number of items created (including several non-earrings and thanks to the efforts of a number of my crafty friends): 38
Number of items sold (thanks to the support of all kinds of wonderful people): 21
Funds raised so far: $156
Number of donations (many more thanks): 2 (not including people who told us to "keep the change")

The making things has slowed down a bit (yay school...) but we'll be putting up more photos today. We also hope to take some of the old ones down/replace them over the weekend.

In the realm of other fundraising efforts, I'll be writing some letters over the next week or so (once I finalize who I'm writing them to...). Hopefully that'll be enough to surpass my goal.

If you know of anyone who is not on facebook that might be interested in supporting our fundraising efforts (or just likes shiny jewelry), please feel free to get them to email me. I'd be happy to send them photos via the bits of the internet that aren't facebook.

And last but not least, if jewelry isn't your thing, we do accept straight-up cash! ;-)

Many thanks again!
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