This Weekend’s Walk For Hunger

Posted by John Lockwood on November 7th, 2007

imageDon’t forget! 

The El Dorado County Food Bank’s Walk for Hunger is this Saturday, November 10th, 2007, so if you come out and walk I may see you there!  There’s still time to sponsor me and check out whether my official sponsorship site will let us go past the goal of $200.00.  Don’t let the fact that I’ve reached my goal stop you — you don’t have to let Laurie Mindnich hog all the glory and the credit.

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A Huge Thank You to Laurie Mindnich

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A Huge Thank You to Laurie Mindnich

Posted by John Lockwood on October 22nd, 2007

image Last night at what was some ungainly hour of the night New York local time, Laurie Mindnich, a New York Realtor® and an ActiveRain participant, put compassion into action and in one deft stroke, transformed the results of our fundraising effort for the El Dorado County Food Bank’s Hunger Walk from zero to reached our fundraising goal.

Thanks again, Laurie.  You made a huge difference.

For those of you who are sad now that we’ve reached our goal, not to worry!  :)  I understand it’s OK to surpass it.  So feel free to donate.

Sponsor me for the November 10th Walk For Hunger, $100 in Matching Funds Available

Posted by John Lockwood on October 16th, 2007

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My sponsorship web site for my participation in the El Dorado County Food Bank Walk For Hunger is now live.

Click here to sponsor me in this event.

Thanks to local supermarket sponsors and other efficiencies, the El Dorado County Food Bank distributes $9.00 worth of food for every dollar they get in contributions.  Moreover Elite Properties will match every dollar you contribute, up to the first $100.  So if you contribute $10, that means $180 in food for needy families.

Help us reach our goal of $200 or more.

A few bucks.  A few minutes.  And a few hungry families get to eat. 

How cool is that?

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Walk For Hunger — Call for Donations, Subscribers, Ideas

Posted by John Lockwood on October 15th, 2007

imageI will be participating in the El Dorado County Food Bank’s  Walk For Hunger, scheduled for Saturday, November 10, 2007.

I am proud to announce that the way I found out about this event was a legacy of the blogathon for hunger that Bridget and I did last year on another blog.  Hence the nice letter from The Food Bank that I got over on the right.

I’d like to ask for your ideas and input about how to make this a more effective event.  For example, I signed up as a team, and I could sponsor a “virtual walker” or two and raffle off their tee shirts to the subscribers of the blog. 

I should have some kind of matching contributions set up and a way to sponsor me officially online in a day or two.

Meantime, if you just can’t wait to help out, that’s a good thing.  If so just click here to make a donation via PayPal.

Or if you prefer to donate at a national level instead of supporting some county you may or may not have heard of or care about, click the America’s Second Harvest banner below.

Here is that link I promised:

Click Here To Sponsor Me

As you can see when you follow that link, Elite Properties will match your contributions up to the first $100.00.

One statistic that you may be interested in is that for every dollar you contribute, the  El Dorado County Food Bank distributes $9.00 worth of food.  With the matching contributions, that means that $10.00 from you provides $180.00 in much needed food to hungry families.

Again, if there are other ways you can think of to make the event more successful or if you would like to walk with me as part of the Elite Properties team, let me know.