I was just getting ready to prepare a nicely worded email warmly compelling you to support me in my Weekend to End Breast Cancer. In 2 or so short weeks I will be doing a 60 km walk to end Breast Cancer. That’s a little under 40 miles for you Americans.
As if spending an entire weekend walking and camping is not crazy enough I have to personally raise at least $2000 to put my body through this distress. My sister in law did it last year and she could barely walk after the weekend… I have raised $750 so far, and I am so thankful to each one of you who donated to this worthy cause.
Now I am not complaining here, I knew this when I signed up but the reality of raising funds is hitting me as I am $1250 short of my goal. If I don’t raise the money I can’t do the walk, now I know I will raise the money in time, but I really don’t want to go door to door or spend a day outside a grocery store selling Hotdogs and Hamburgers, although that would be an excellent way to lessen the pride in my life.
So this is my pure, shameless plug to support a great cause and a great weekend that raises millions of dollars for cancer research. Yes that is right… I am begging… But seriously… if you can spare a few bucks and have a minute or two to make an online pledge just click on the link below.
If you would like to sponsor me you can go to endcancer.ca or click here to enter my personal page
And thanks so much for reading my blog!
Have you ever had to raise a lot of money for a worthy cause?
Hi Lori!
Good luck raising your funds. It is definitely attainable! I’d love to participate in that walk in the future.
We have an autism service dog for our eldest son Logan. We were asked to do fundraising, to cover the cost of the dog and it’s training, boarding, food, kennel costs etc. So at the time, the recommended amout was 12,000 (it’s now 18,000), if you didn’t reach that goal, that was ok, you still got the dog, that was just the suggested ‘magic number’.
I went into that fundraising project with great fear and trepidation. We don’t really enjoy being in the spotlight, we don’t like asking for things period. Well about a year later, after a few events, and articles in local papers and the community learning about what we were doing. We had raised 29,000! We were so overwhelmed! We felt so blessed because not only were were able to cover a dog for our son, but also another dog would be sponsored for another child with autism.
I still don’t enjoy being in the spotlight, but I learned that sometimes we have to move outside our comfortzone to attain a goal that we believe in. It was a “God thing” that we even applied for the dog, and to see how it came together was totally overwhelming and a big sign for us that we should be doing this.