☆ PJ20 Wishlist Friday 9/2 Fundraiser! ☆

Flutter Girl

Sweet! I can't wait for this..it will be my first pre-party!

mfc2006

Flutter Girl wrote:

Sweet! I can't wait for this..it will be my first pre-party!

same here! it's going to be a blast!

tpjohnson16

tpjohnson16+hubby will be there!

Dirty Tom

You can mark me down to volunteer my assistance~

Steve Dunne

Count me in...and Laura/Eric/Jen, I'll gladly give a hand. If I'm sober.

Jeremy's Spokesman

I'll be there if I can make it. That sounds fun!

mindi

49 DAYS :shock: :P

Let me know what I can do to help. I still have leftover boxes to collect stuff in, I can bring those. I'm sure I'll have some raffle donations too.
Also bringing the poster tube that I ended up with.

IF anyone wants to help out with items, we always need empty poster tubes!

VedHead2

Me+1!!

danceswithsquirrels

If anyone has a hook-up for a hotel room somewhere around Alpine please PM me. There's 6 of us who can't find a room anywhere for an affordable price. I will gladly give you my expo passes if you can help me out. Thanks!

PJ_ROCKS

Just mailed off 4 posters, PM sent.


I mailed them to:


Wishlist Foundation
c/o PJ20 Fundraiser
PO Box 3868
Naperville, IL 60567

mindi

There are a few of us accepting donations, don't want to bog any one person down to transport a bunch of stuff. Laura, Ms. Wes C Addle, and I will too.

Can't wait! I'm bringing 5-6 big boxes to collect food in.

CloneOfASon

I will be here for sure, maybe +1. Working on some stuff to donate.

faceintheclouds

I'm curious. Bieng a non profit, how do we as the ones who donate and are putting the money out for these things know that 100% of the money raised goes to said organizations. I donated to the Detroit ev one and plan on this one too. But been reading about organizations not bieng truthful and organizers skimming off top.
For instance all the scum bags for the Katrina hurricane.
Just a simple question, if taken the wrong way I guess I could apologize.

mindi

Wow.
As an organizer of a bunch of Wishlist fundraisers I can pretty much tell you that no one is skimming money. Not to come across as a bitch, but as a fundraiser, I kind of take offense to that statement.

EVERY $ raised GOES to the chosen charity. The only $ that isn't, is half of the Wishlist tee shirt $ to cover the costs of making the tees.

I had to say more because this really has me upset.

We as organizers spend a lot of our own $. Raffle tickets, poster tubes, poster boards to make signs, name tags, markers. Also our travel $. We use a lot of printer paper, ink to print a bunch of stuff we need. This all comes out of our own pockets!

Foxy Mop

faceintheclouds wrote:

I'm curious. Bieng a non profit, how do we as the ones who donate and are putting the money out for these things know that 100% of the money raised goes to said organizations. I donated to the Detroit ev one and plan on this one too. But been reading about organizations not bieng truthful and organizers skimming off top.
For instance all the scum bags for the Katrina hurricane.
Just a simple question, if taken the wrong way I guess I could apologize.

Hey Jamie,

Definitely a valid question, especially when there are unfortunate instances of dishonesty out there. It's good to remind everyone of what Wishlist is about too.

You can feel secure that any pre-party, online auction or event promoted by the Wishlist Foundation is a 100% valid fundraising situation. Early on we knew we had to make sure everyone's donations are safe and secure since you are all trusting us with your hard-earned money. Wishlist Foundation is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization. Our tax ID number is 20-5497732 and we run everything through our business bank account. We hold both directors insurance and liability insurance too, just as any other business and nonprofit would. As a federal recognized nonprofit, we have the ability to provide tax receipts and have to disclose all of our accounting. All of our information is at http://wishlistfoundation.org

We are a 100% volunteer organization and I guarantee you that none of us is taking any money off the top, bottom or anywhere in between Other than the production cost of the items we create and event expenses, we donate all proceeds to beneficiaries we support. We do this out of love, and we certainly have no intention of screwing over our friends.

There are lots of fans out there who host their own private fundraisers. We believe that 99% of them are genuine and honest - but you should always be careful when donating to a person or organization that isn't registered. It's that whole "buyer beware / donor beware" situation.

Unfortunately there are a few people out there who would take advantage of how giving our community is and withhold information or even money. That can be said of any community, business, place, or time. I would think twice about donating to any organization that is afraid to disclose their business practices or structure.

If you have any questions about the validity of a specific fundraiser or if it's 'Wishlist approved', feel free to email us at info (at) wishlistfoundation.org

Hope this clears things up for you!
Laura

Foxy Mop

Updates to the first post coming soon, btw!!!

mindi

THANKS so much for replying Laura I think I take everything too personally.
You can word stuff a lot better than me!

faceintheclouds

Foxy Mop wrote:

faceintheclouds wrote:

I'm curious. Bieng a non profit, how do we as the ones who donate and are putting the money out for these things know that 100% of the money raised goes to said organizations. I donated to the Detroit ev one and plan on this one too. But been reading about organizations not bieng truthful and organizers skimming off top.
For instance all the scum bags for the Katrina hurricane.
Just a simple question, if taken the wrong way I guess I could apologize.

Hey Jamie,

Definitely a valid question, especially when there are unfortunate instances of dishonesty out there. It's good to remind everyone of what Wishlist is about too.

You can feel secure that any pre-party, online auction or event promoted by the Wishlist Foundation is a 100% valid fundraising situation. Early on we knew we had to make sure everyone's donations are safe and secure since you are all trusting us with your hard-earned money. Wishlist Foundation is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization. Our tax ID number is 20-5497732 and we run everything through our business bank account. We hold both directors insurance and liability insurance too, just as any other business and nonprofit would. As a federal recognized nonprofit, we have the ability to provide tax receipts and have to disclose all of our accounting. All of our information is at http://wishlistfoundation.org

We are a 100% volunteer organization and I guarantee you that none of us is taking any money off the top, bottom or anywhere in between Other than the production cost of the items we create and event expenses, we donate all proceeds to beneficiaries we support. We do this out of love, and we certainly have no intention of screwing over our friends.

There are lots of fans out there who host their own private fundraisers. We believe that 99% of them are genuine and honest - but you should always be careful when donating to a person or organization that isn't registered. It's that whole "buyer beware / donor beware" situation.

Unfortunately there are a few people out there who would take advantage of how giving our community is and withhold information or even money. That can be said of any community, business, place, or time. I would think twice about donating to any organization that is afraid to disclose their business practices or structure.

If you have any questions about the validity of a specific fundraiser or if it's 'Wishlist approved', feel free to email us at info (at) wishlistfoundation.org

Hope this clears things up for you!
Laura

Okeee smokeeeee. Ty

Jeremy's Spokesman

Up thread, I ambiguously mentioned that I'd try to make it.
This looks like a lot of fun, and you can put me down, plus one for the event.

I didn't see an address for the event, is there one available?

cd21miller

cd21miller +1