Update: Nov 9th – I am so excited to let you know that we raised $10,073 for Hurricane Sandy relief. I am simply blown away. Thank you all for your generosity!
I created a spreadsheet with your entries and we had a total of 591 people entered for the draw. All contest winners today were selected using Random.org.
The winner of my Vegan/GF Foodie Box is #79 – Charlotte Cromwell!
The winner of the Blendtec is #556 – Maria Winson!
Like many of you, I’ve been glued to the TV watching the coverage of Hurricane Sandy over the past week. My heart goes out to everyone who was impacted. As a spectator, it’s difficult to wrap my mind around the devastation, let alone what it’s like to be in the heart of it all. We were pretty fortunate here in Ontario, relatively speaking.
My second blog giveaway was planned for today, but I felt compelled to turn it into something that could help those in need. We’ve had great success in the past with the Japan Disaster fundraiser and Shop 4 A Cause and I know with your support we can also make this one a huge success as well.
Fundraising Page Update!! Thanks to the Canadian Red Cross, we now have our own fundraising page set up directly through their website. This means no transaction fees! Hooray. A big thanks to Teilo and Catherine for setting this up and the Red Cross team who put the page together! All links are now updated in this post to direct you to the new page. Don’t worry if you donated previously through Canada Helps – all of your info has been added into my spreadsheet for the giveaway draw. Thanks for your amazing support! The fundraising amount on the Canadian Red Cross page also reflects the total amount we’ve raised, including those earlier donations on Canada Helps. If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask!
So. My goal is to raise 50 billion by Tues. Nov. 6th. ;)
Ok, how does $3,000 sound? I know we can do that! Update: We raised $3,560 in less than 24 hours! Let’s see if we can hit $5,000?
As a thank you for making a donation, I will be doing two random draws for some pretty sweet prizes.
Giveaway #1) Vegan/GF Foodie Gift Box
Oh boy did I have fun at the grocery store this week. I hand selected a huge gift box bursting with some of my favourite food products. So far, I’ve resisted busting open the kale chips…those are my FAV and they are taunting me…..must focus…
I’ll ship this box worldwide, so everyone who donates has a chance at winning. All products are gluten-free and vegan and many are also organic, fair trade, or raw. You can click the picture to scope out the loot closer up.
Included in the delicious gift box:
- Cocovie Coconut Jam (my love!)
- Nuts 2 You Organic Roasted Peanut Butter
- One Degree Organic Green Lentils
- Alter Ego Organic Rainbow Quinoa
- Sweet & Sara Toasted Coconut Marshmallows
- Emile Noel Organic Sesame Oil
- Alive & Radiant Cheezy Kale Chips
- Herbamare (my fav herbed sea salt seasoning)
- 1 peanut butter Larabar
- Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips
- SeaSnax
- TAZO Vanilla Rooibos tea (15 sachets)
- Single serving of Vega Chocolate Performance Protein Powder
- Single serving of Sunwarrior Vanilla Warrior Blend Protein Powder
- box of Mary’s Crackers in Original
Giveaway #2) Blendtec Total Blender
Blendtec has agreed to donate yet another Blendtec Total Blender (valued at $454.95 USD)! Major kudos to Blendtec for their generosity. This prize is eligible to anyone in North America.
Giveaway details:
To be eligible for the giveaway, I ask that your donation is a minimum of $5. If you can give more, that would be great too! Please be sure to check the box that says you give permission for me to see your info – this way I will be able to contact you if you should win.
I will randomly chose two prize winners (one for the foodie gift box and one for the Blendtec) on Tues. Nov 6th. Winners will be announced on the blog shortly thereafter.
If you would like to participate, please visit my donation page.
If you’d like to spread the word about the Fundraiser, feel free to share this post on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. Thank you in advance for your support!
Thank you so much for giving us a place to donate! Hoping they get all those people back in their homes safely SOON!
I have been reading your blog for awhile now, and love your recipes! I have been planning to donate to a relief cause for Sandy relief efforts and was pleasantly surprised to find this today. Just made my donation. Bless you for taking on this initiative!
Just realized that I posted my full name with my comments, wouldn’t mind if you took my last name out! Thanks!
done and done! :)
Thanks for organizing this. I am happy to say my donation just took it over $7000. This is awesome.
Amy
Thank you thank you thank you!
I’ll be donating goods directly (all of the churches on long island are accepting donations, and I know a lot of people need stuff now, and since I’m within the proximity to give immediate aid, this is a better option for me), but I will definitely share this with anyone who’s looking to make a monetary contribution! We also need your thoughts and prayers as another storm rolls towards us this week.
Thank you, I appreciate it Lena! It sounds like you are doing a lot of good, keep it up.
This is such a great idea! Thanks for the opportunity to be a part of this giving effort.
Just donated and also did not put my email in the comments box but it was on the form will that work?
Yes no worries! I will get a master list at the end :)
What a wonderful thing to do !- I just donated- hope the total exceeds your goal ! It is so hard to imagine what the victims of this terrible storm are enduring –
your awesome for doing this! my house wasnt horribly damaged by sandy ( a tree fell on the house but nothing to damaging) but some of my friends and families lost everything its absolutely horrific down here all the chaos with the gas situation on top of this.. thanks soso much for doing this!
After watching the NBC concert on Friday night, I was a searchin’ for a Canadian site that would accept donations to the cause and voila – there you are – making this easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy for us.
Bless your big, big heart and the good folks at the Canadian Red Cross for helping us reach out to help others.
Gros bisous de Montreal!
Im so glad you found me…that’s cool! Thanks so much for helping out.
You changed your header! :) Love it! Hope you broke $5000 this weekend!
Thanks Stacie!!! Just playing around with it. I loathed the last header…hah
I donated – looks like you’re almost up to $7500!! I’m angeltearsmc AT yahoo DOT com
(Is the donation amount in Canadian $ or US $? They’re almost the same, I just wanted to ask.)
My guess is Canadian, but I will verify this with my contact.
Thanks Katy!
This is amazing, Angela! I can’t believe you’ve more than doubled your original goal, and completely passed your second goal! Thank you for doing this :)
I don’t have much, but I donated what I could. I hope it helps <3
I just donated! Thank you so much Angela for setting this up and thank you for this amazing giveaway! My email is [email protected] incase I am lucky enough to be drawn!
You are a class act, Angela! I have been so excited checking the fundraiser page and seeing it grow from an already astounding 3,000 to 8,000! Incredible idea and thank you so much for your efforts!
wow- touched you are doing this, angela. finally a blogger using their notoriety in a good way. great idea.
Wow! Can’t believe you’re over $7000 already! I donated on Friday, keep up the good work!!
This is so incredible of you to set this up and for all your readers to be so generous and donate. I live in Manhattan (my area was spared from a lot of damage) and its really touching to see people from all over want to help. xo
Nearly to $8000! I keep watching the number go up. A-MAZING.
Thanks girl!!
The website wouldn’t let me donate – didn’t like my card, I guess? – but I just want to congratulate you. Nearly $8000 when I looked!
Im sorry to hear that it wouldn’t work! Did you get some kind of error message?