These days the idea of giving to support the causes we believe in (even the research being conducted at WPI, the Whittemore Peter Peterson Institute) is becoming more and more challenging. When it comes to supporting someone, a group or a corporate entity, you probably wrinkle your nose and ask a lot of questions because support can cost you in time, money and precious energy.
Today there’s really not much time to think too long. I just read about an iGive.com campaign to support WPI (which is working to discover how the retrovirus XMRV is involved with or possibly causes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Now this is only a $5,000 campaign to raise money and obviously that’s not much in the corporate research world, but money is money and it does show our interest in supporting them!
However… this campaign is only on at iGive.com until 12 pm today (Chicago time) and, believe it or not, the campaign has not met that $5,000 goal! So if you have any interest in at least showing your support for WPI and what they are doing there for the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research, I encourage you to go right now.
The link is: http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=706712. If you want to read more about the announcement, continue on.
*I appreciate your efforts and everything that you are motivated to do. I always believe that people are basicly good and kind. The act of sending your friends here to the Health Matters Show and you reading and acting upon what you find here is such a wonderful and inspiring endorsement. Keep up the good work! Now, get ready to Tweet this post, if you have a Twitter account, or Facebook it to your friends.
Time is truly ‘a-wasting, if you want to act to support WPI today!
Thanks, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show
(Here’s the whole announcement for you to read through if you like. There is a link at the bottom where you can see the total amount of money raised.)
In just three short months, thousands of causes just like Whittemore Peterson Institute have, all together, earned tens of thousands of dollars from our special challenges. The most earned by a cause was over $1,000. We’re tremendously pleased that these Challenges work and we’re excited that
supporters like you are making it happen. So pleased that we’ve put together another 24 hour / $5,000 challenge.
According to the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s recent survey:
* Nearly 90% of nonprofits surveyed expect 2010 to be as difficult or more difficult than 2009.
* 80% anticipate increased demand for services in 2010.
* Only 18% of organizations expect to end 2010 above break-even.
* The majority – 61% – have less than three months of cash available; 12% have none.
Together, you and iGive.com can make times a little less tough for Whittemore Peterson Institute.
We’ll donate our marketing budget, you spread the word, and Whittemore Peterson Institute gets the money. It’s that simple.
We’ll give Whittemore Peterson Institute a dollar for each person who joins iGive using the special link below and visits one store via iGive between noon Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (Chicago time) and noon Thursday, the next day.
Here’s where you come in. Send your friends, family, and colleagues the following link in an e-mail, tweet it, do a Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the drill) and let them know you think Whittemore Peterson Institute is pretty cool and deserves their support, especially since it’s free! You can even just forward this e-mail. The only way Whittemore Peterson Institute will get new supporters and that free $1 (or more) is if you invite them.
This is the link:
http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=706712
Make sure you tell your friends to perform a store visit, so that they earn the dollar.
5,000 new members, $5,000. No purchase necessary. That’s 5,000 new members for all causes, not just yours, and it’s only for 24 hours, so it’s a bit of race.
It can turn into more than a dollar, much more … if these new members search or buy something at an iGive store they’ll earn much-needed money for Whittemore Peterson Institute. Right now, we’re donating a special bonus of $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage. Active iGive
members raise an average of over $40 per year for their cause.
The details:
- Offer active between 12:00 p.m. (noon) March 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m., March 25, 2010 (Chicago time).
- New members only (never have been an iGive member previously).
- All the normal rules of membership, searching, and purchasing apply, our site has the details.
- Once we’ve given away $5,000 in total, the offer ends.
- The special link and visiting a store via iGive are necessary. No link, no store visit, no $1.
That’s it. We’ve added tons of new stuff in the last months that we want to really test out, so spreading the word helps both Whittemore Peterson Institute and iGive. Check it out yourself at http://www.iGive.com. You may need to login first.
Yours,
Robert N. Grosshandler
Founder
P.S. If you want to track how you are doing, just visit http://www.iGive.com/html/referralsreport.cfm.
If you want to track how your cause is doing, please visit http://www.iGive.com//html/causestats.cfm .
For help and questions, please visit http://support.iGive.com
To manage your subscriptions, please visit http://www.iGive.com/html/mysettings.cfm (you may need to login first.) This e-mail is a Member Alert that we don’t usually send out more than once a month, and is a required part of your free membership at iGive.com.
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