As you guys are probably aware, the board has rallied behind an idea to provide someone a little less fortunate to watch MSU play in the bowl game in Memphis. I'm going to lead up the charge this year on collecting donations and making this happen.
Here's what I'm doing:
- From now until Friday at 2 PM (central time), I will be collecting donations through my paypal at [email protected]. When you send your money over, please select "sending money to family and friends" so paypal does not take a fee out for the transaction. Also, include your SPS username in the notes and I will compile a list of all the donors. When I publicize this list, I won't include donation amounts. If you prefer NOT to be recognized, just place anonymous there.
- On Friday, I will count all the donations and figure out the best way to allocate them between tickets and MSU gear (t-shirts, cowbells, etc...). I'd like to provide one "goodie" for the each ticket.
- DS will be in charge of the "goodies" since he has better access to that stuff in Mississippi. Once we decide how to divvy up the funds, I'll paypal him the money to cover those expenses and the rest will go to tickets.
- In the time between now and Friday, I will begin researching charities in the Memphis area that would be a good fit for this. My target audience will be children, first and foremost. I plan on starting with the hospitals, but if I can't get any gaurantee that the child will have his/her butt in the seat for the game, then I will move onto orphanages. If you have contacts that you'd like me to use for these, please DM me that information.
I'm really looking forward to turning this into an SPS tradition for a couple of reasons:
1) We get to do something awesome for someone who may need a pick-me-up. There's nothing better than helping someone who needs it.
2) Doing this means we went to a bowl game. And that's pretty awesome.
Looking forward to this.
Can a mod get this stickied?
Here's what I'm doing:
- From now until Friday at 2 PM (central time), I will be collecting donations through my paypal at [email protected]. When you send your money over, please select "sending money to family and friends" so paypal does not take a fee out for the transaction. Also, include your SPS username in the notes and I will compile a list of all the donors. When I publicize this list, I won't include donation amounts. If you prefer NOT to be recognized, just place anonymous there.
- On Friday, I will count all the donations and figure out the best way to allocate them between tickets and MSU gear (t-shirts, cowbells, etc...). I'd like to provide one "goodie" for the each ticket.
- DS will be in charge of the "goodies" since he has better access to that stuff in Mississippi. Once we decide how to divvy up the funds, I'll paypal him the money to cover those expenses and the rest will go to tickets.
- In the time between now and Friday, I will begin researching charities in the Memphis area that would be a good fit for this. My target audience will be children, first and foremost. I plan on starting with the hospitals, but if I can't get any gaurantee that the child will have his/her butt in the seat for the game, then I will move onto orphanages. If you have contacts that you'd like me to use for these, please DM me that information.
I'm really looking forward to turning this into an SPS tradition for a couple of reasons:
1) We get to do something awesome for someone who may need a pick-me-up. There's nothing better than helping someone who needs it.
2) Doing this means we went to a bowl game. And that's pretty awesome.
Looking forward to this.
Can a mod get this stickied?
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