Just because I think it's kind of interesting to break it down, I threw together some gift pyramids to help me figure out how many donors of each dollar amount I would need to get me to my $2200 minimum.
If I only have 5 people at $100 and 5 at $60, that means I need 100 people to give me gifts of $10 and $20 dollars. That sounds a little bit daunting!
Now, if I could only find 65 people who would donate, I would need a few more $60 donations, along with a few more at $20 and $25 instead of $10, but that seems a lot more doable!
In the best case scenario, I would find just a few super generous and compassionate people who could give me $250--then I'd be in business! That way I'd only need a handful of donors at the $60, $25 and $20 levels! Best of all, I'd only need 38 donors!
No matter what giving scenario actually ends up occurring, hopefully it will start occurring soon! I'll feel a lot better once I get a few more donation dollars under my belt!
Very early this morning, I was thrilled to receive my first donation, resulting from an email I sent out to those people who supported me from last year. Hooray for Aunt Meg--thanks for getting me started with a very generous donation! I got two more donations today and only have $1,930 more to go before reaching my minimum! :)
California, here we come! Last night I officially registered the Jayhawks for Jugs for the San Diego 3-Day!! Thanks to those of you who helped us decide on a team name by voting. Although the event is still 6 months away, I'm already very excited. The good news is, we have lots of time to prepare and fundraise. The bad news is, November will take forever to get here! I probably don't really need to start fundraising this early, but since I also need to secure some donations for the Relay for Life in the next couple of months, I'm thinking I'll just send out one email to handle both solicitations. That way, people can either give towards my 3-Day adventure, or they can honor/memorialize a loved one who has battled a different kind of cancer through the Relay. Plus, I'll be bothering my friends and family with one annoying "ask for money" email instead of two, which I know will make my husband very happy. He's convinced that people will start running the other way when they see me coming, since I'm almost always looking for donations for one cause or another. I can't help it--there are a few causes in this world (homeless dogs and cancer being two of them) that I'm really passionate about!
My friend and teammate Vikkie certainly hasn't wasted any time getting started with her fundraising. She registered this morning at about 9:00 a.m. This evening at 5:30 p.m., she had already raised $695!! She's a fundraising rock star! I'll definitely be sending out emails soon so she quits making me look bad! :)
My friend Vikkie and I have been talking about it since my last post on the subject, and although we haven't registered yet, we're pretty sure we're going to walk in the Breast Cancer 3-Day in San Diego this November. We were originally leaning towards going to Chicago in August, but since Vikkie is the event planner extraordinaire at our Med Center office and her biggest event of the year is that month, Chicago wouldn't really fit into the schedule. We briefly kicked around the idea of going to Dallas/Fort Worth, since it's close and we have friends there to stay with, but we decided that DFW wasn't quite exciting enough for us. So at this point, we're planning on going to California, but we can't register until we think of a good name for our duo. There are over 600 teams already registered for the San Diego walk, and with each team having 2 to 10 people on it, that's already a LOT of walkers!
Most of the teams have names related to breasts or cancer or cures or walking or where they're from or who they're walking for, and many of the team names are quite hysterical. This year's S.D. walk has "3-Day Street Walkers", "Hoofin' for Hooters", "Babes for Boobs", "Girls Goin' Miles" and about 625 other teams! There is even a team called " 'Hawks for Hooters" (some of whom are from Kansas) that we could join if we wanted to, but we thought it would be more fun to think of a team of our own. So, here are some of the names I've come up with so far:
*Jayhawks for Jugs *Jayhawks on a Journey *Journeying Jayhawks for Jugs *Kansans for a Cure *KU Kansans for a Cure *KU Kansans for Curing Kazongas *Crazy KU Kansans for Cure
You get the drift. I could probably come up with a few more permutations of the same few words (or maybe replace Kazongas for Coconuts or something), but I'll spare you any more ridiculousness. I would, however, appreciate your input, so vote for your favorite below, or leave me a suggestion for something entirely different. If you need more ideas, you can check the complete list of already registered San Diego teams. Thanks for voting!
