It’s official. I’m a fundraising junky. I just love to give back and love the causes that I support. Yesterday, I saw on tv that there was a 10 year old girl who gave up her b-day so that she could donate that money that would have been spent to charity. She had started a whole fundraising campaign online and had people make online pledge pages for her b-day, and apparently, she was able to raise 20,000 dollars for this conservation charity working in South America. I know I wasn’t thinking about that when I was her age. I just wanted all the presents I could get.
As you can see from my other posts, I think this whole fundraising online internet thing is really cool because this means that you, an individual, a human limited by their local concerns and obligations and community, can make a monumental impact through personal internet fundraising campaigns. If a 10 year old girl from Georgia can do it, why can’t everyone in America pick up the slack and really move to make a difference in our neighborhoods and beyond.
I was telling all of this to my mom and she said that she would give it a try too. So I’m going to help her set up a profile and some fundraising pages like mine. She is really bad with technology so I’m wondering how she will do, but she is definitely excited to help out and get involved. So, if my mom and a little girl can raise money online, really I think anyone in the world can do it.
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