I just created a facebook page to sell my artwork through. I have posted a few of the pieces so far and will be posting more as soon as I can. 40% of the proceeds from this will go towards Raising Money to Help My Family and 40% will go towards my fund raising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. The rest will cover materials, etc.
Here's the link if you want to check it out: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marcy-Eibens-Artist-Page/275043828838?ref=nf#/pages/Marcy-Eibens-Artist-Page/275043828838?ref=nf
I'll be promoting it on facebook and twitter. Any help with this would be great and I'm trying to get as many fans of the page as possible.
Right now I only have the originals so I'm researching how to get prints made. If anyone has any advice on how to do this, let me know.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Posting the links one more time
Once again, the link to donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for my Team in Training is:
http://pages.teamintraining.org/sd/rnr10/TeamEiben
And the link to donate to Raising Money to Help my family is:
I think I'm getting the hang of this fundraising thing
I have to admit, twitter is actually an amazing networking tool. I have yet to actually physically meet anyone from it, but I've made some good "virtual" friends and I know I will meet some of them in the future. It's such a great network for everyone to help each other (of course some peope abuse it and some people are just kids playing around but that's unavoidable).
I've also found that when you're working towards a good cause, you will be able to find many good people to step forth and help you, even complete strangers. This has been working with raising money for cancer and I hope that it will continue to help with my Haiti fundraising as well. I plan to go out this weekend with a group of friends (I'm praying that it won't rain that one day) to raise money from complete strangers on the street. That ought to be interesting!
I want to learn how to get businesses to help out, specifically with donating items to be raffled and donating their space to have a fundraiser. I'm not sure how to approach this so I will be talking to some people from Team in Training to see who has done this before and how they have done it. They should be able to help me.
So far I am at $145 towards my fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I have a feeling I will actually surpass my goal, which would be awesome. I also have a feeling I will be doing most, if not all of my husband's fundraising (I need to get him off his butt!), which will mean that I will be raising at least $3500 for the both of us. We shall see...
I do still want to continue with my Raising Money for Families idea and see if I can set that up as an actual non-profit organization, but I still have a LOT of research to do for this (at least I have someone who will be able to do my logo! Yay!). I still haven't decided on the name and I need to sit down and write an actual business plan for it. Coming soon, to a blog near you :)
I've also found that when you're working towards a good cause, you will be able to find many good people to step forth and help you, even complete strangers. This has been working with raising money for cancer and I hope that it will continue to help with my Haiti fundraising as well. I plan to go out this weekend with a group of friends (I'm praying that it won't rain that one day) to raise money from complete strangers on the street. That ought to be interesting!
I want to learn how to get businesses to help out, specifically with donating items to be raffled and donating their space to have a fundraiser. I'm not sure how to approach this so I will be talking to some people from Team in Training to see who has done this before and how they have done it. They should be able to help me.
So far I am at $145 towards my fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I have a feeling I will actually surpass my goal, which would be awesome. I also have a feeling I will be doing most, if not all of my husband's fundraising (I need to get him off his butt!), which will mean that I will be raising at least $3500 for the both of us. We shall see...
I do still want to continue with my Raising Money for Families idea and see if I can set that up as an actual non-profit organization, but I still have a LOT of research to do for this (at least I have someone who will be able to do my logo! Yay!). I still haven't decided on the name and I need to sit down and write an actual business plan for it. Coming soon, to a blog near you :)
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Here's what I'm up to recently....
There's just so much going on! I want to do 100 things at once! How does anyone keep all this organized?
I'm still raising money for my brother and his family, but it has taken a slight back burner. I just joined Team in Training with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and I have to raise $1750 for them by June! This is a very important and personal cause for me. My mother died of lymphoma in 2007. She was my best friend and I miss her more than anything. I feel like I gave up on her in the end and that I didn't do all I could to help her, so this is my way of trying to make up for that. My husband is also doing it and needs to raise the same amount by June (totaling $3500 between us). Here's my website for that if you want to check it out or help out http://pages.teamintraining.org/sd/rnr10/meiben6mr5.
I just got started on that fund raising, then this huge earthquake happens. I am now trying to organize my friends into a fundraiser to raise money for the Red Cross and also the Volunteer Ministers for Haiti. I am the organizer of a group on meetup.com and I added up some figures. If everyone in my group just donated $10 we'd have over $1700! That would go a long way towards relief for Haiti.
There's just so much going on and I'm not even sure what to push anymore. I'm just going to do it all at once and see what happens :) Did I mention I'm also a new first time mom, I work full time and I'm starting my own financial services business? Sheesh! I have a lot to do!
I'm still raising money for my brother and his family, but it has taken a slight back burner. I just joined Team in Training with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and I have to raise $1750 for them by June! This is a very important and personal cause for me. My mother died of lymphoma in 2007. She was my best friend and I miss her more than anything. I feel like I gave up on her in the end and that I didn't do all I could to help her, so this is my way of trying to make up for that. My husband is also doing it and needs to raise the same amount by June (totaling $3500 between us). Here's my website for that if you want to check it out or help out http://pages.teamintraining.org/sd/rnr10/meiben6mr5.
I just got started on that fund raising, then this huge earthquake happens. I am now trying to organize my friends into a fundraiser to raise money for the Red Cross and also the Volunteer Ministers for Haiti. I am the organizer of a group on meetup.com and I added up some figures. If everyone in my group just donated $10 we'd have over $1700! That would go a long way towards relief for Haiti.
There's just so much going on and I'm not even sure what to push anymore. I'm just going to do it all at once and see what happens :) Did I mention I'm also a new first time mom, I work full time and I'm starting my own financial services business? Sheesh! I have a lot to do!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Slowed down a little, still doing research
The cause has slowed down again. I need to promote more! Any help with this is much appreciated. I know I need to add a pic to the facebook page, which I will be doing very, very soon. I wish I had pictures at work that I could upload but they're all at home :(
I am still researching the idea of starting a non-profit. From what I have read so far, I need to talk to a lawyer who is familiar with non-profits and get their advice of how to go about doing it and all the legalities of setting it up. So now I'm on the hunt for a good lawyer who will do a free consultation! I will keep everyone updated.
In terms of a name for the cause, I'm thinking "Raising Money to Help My Family" is a pretty good name. Any feedback on this? It could be "Raising Money to Help Families" but I kind of like the first wording better. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
I am still researching the idea of starting a non-profit. From what I have read so far, I need to talk to a lawyer who is familiar with non-profits and get their advice of how to go about doing it and all the legalities of setting it up. So now I'm on the hunt for a good lawyer who will do a free consultation! I will keep everyone updated.
In terms of a name for the cause, I'm thinking "Raising Money to Help My Family" is a pretty good name. Any feedback on this? It could be "Raising Money to Help Families" but I kind of like the first wording better. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
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