Held the first fund raiser for Haiti

Last Wednesday I got up the nerve to go to Starbucks and ask for donations for my meet-up group for the Haiti fund raiser. It was actually surprisingly easy. They gave me 2 awesome gift bags to auction off! I was then a little disappointed because I had to cancel our fund raiser for Wed night. I only had 2 RSVPs and a raffle can't really work with 2 people.

Yesterday was the "second" fund raiser (it was actually the 1st since the Wed one was cancelled). It was only 5 people but it was so much fun! We went to the beach and had some signs and buckets. We raised $107.30. Not bad for a couple hours. There was no real way to do a raffle, so I still have the 2 gift bags from Starbucks. I'm thinking I will either try to do another meet-up with a raffle, or just raffle them off at work. We shall see...

After this I'm taking a break from the Haiti fund raising for a while. I still have a lot of fund raising to go for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (I'm at about $300 and need to get to $3500) and I still want to do a bit more fund raising for my brother. Then I want to expand that to raising money for other families.

I will keep this updated with my progress!