Please Support the MS Challenge by making a donation to the Scrap Dogs
The Scrap Dogs are asking you to support our fund raising efforts with a tax deductible donation. It's faster and easier than ever to support this cause that's so important to us. Simply click on the link below. Any amount, great or small, helps to make a difference in the lives of people living with MS. We appreciate your support and look forward to letting you know how we do.
National MS Society - Challenge Walk: The Scrap Dog Team
How can you help?
Thank you.
Our 2008 goal of $25,000 was exceeded because of your generousity. Our 2009 Goal is $25,000 again. Are you able to help? Our 2009 goal will be updated in an attached comment as the year progresses.
Today, there is no cure for multiple sclerosis, and with diagnosis occurring most frequently between the ages of 20 and 50, many individuals face a lifetime filled with unpredictability.
This event is a challenge - and an opportunity - for everyone involved, participants and donors alike. With commitment to this cause, we can all be part of a historic undertaking. The funds raised from the MS Challenge Walk will not only support research to help create a world free of multiple sclerosis, but also provide programs which address the needs of hundreds of thousands of people living with MS right now. Because we choose to walk for those who sometimes can't. Because we choose to donate to the MS Challenge Walk, we are getting ever closer to the hour when no one will have to hear the words, "You have MS."
Watch this blog throughout the year for local fundraising events.
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Planned Event - Tentative
Wine Tasting at the Linen Shop in Newport. This is a white event. White wine and white food.
Any ideas?
Biggest Loser - Carol Patin is the organizer for this event.
Initial Weigh In - September 29 at 6:30 at the Portsmouth Free Library.
Scrap Dog Team Members, Family and Friends are invited to join us in the Contest to be the biggest loser.
Donation of $20.00 for entry.
Prize - gift certicate to local restaurant - to be determined
Ending Date - December 8th.
Each week contestants must email their weights to Carol at carol.patin@langnaturals.com.
The Scrap Dog Team member that wins or that their family or friend wins gets 1/2 of the entry fees towards their 2009 fundraising efforts.
Rock Music Night at local watering hole!
Beach House in Portsmouth has offered but at this time it is not confirmed.
I have asked Jimmy's saloon in Newport to allow Braman's Lane to play as a benefit to us. Waiting for answer.
Country Music Event - Idea
Common Fence Point Music Festival?
Manny Escobar's Band
Yankee Candle Catalog Sales - Idea
off the MS Website - I have request information.
Sell Yankee Candle products from a special collection catalog and you can receive up to 40% of the sale towards your fundraising effort.
This fundraising campaign is available August 1 through October 31st.
Sales may be conducted for 2-4 weeks with 2 weeks being the norm.
There is no minimum order required.
The brochures and sales materials are sent to you free of charge.
Orders are sent to Yankee Candle in a postage-paid envelope that is provided to you.
Each seller’s order is packaged individually.
Orders will be shipped approximately 4-6 weeks from the date we receive them in our office. Freight and handling fees may apply; however, there is maximum shipping charge per state. All orders must be prepaid prior to shipment.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please call Yankee Candle at 800-351-1533 or visit their website at http://www.yankeefundraising.com/.
Silpada Jewelry Sales - Idea from the MS Web site - I have requested information.
Silpada Jewelry Sales
By having a Silpada Jewelry party, the host/hostess (event participant) would receive a donation of 30% of their total party sales.
For Example:
Percentage Donated: 30%
Total sold during jewelry party: $1000
Total donated towards your fundraising goal: $300
Silpada is unique in the direct sales industry; there is no formal presentation and no pressure, just beautiful handcrafted sterling silver jewelry.
Home show
Invite, family, friends, neighbors, co-workers. Kim Goodrich will display sample pieces of Silpada, circulate catalogs, help your customers make selections and take orders. Kim could even attend a fundraising event and display jewelry there.
Catalog party
Kim would send you catalogs/order forms to distribute to your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. You would provide them with a due back date, collect the completed order forms and return them to Kim for processing.
How it Works:
If you would like to host a party, please contact Kim Goodrich at (508) 406-0117 or goodrichkim@yahoo.com.
Princess House Catalog Sales - Idea off the MS web site - I have requested information.
Earn 25% of Sales for your Fundraising through Princess House
Princess House fundraisers are a great way to earn money towards your MS fundraising goals. Customers love the professional-quality home enhancement products and appreciate the opportunity to buy items they'll use every day, while also helping a great cause. If you'd like a current catalog, contact Leann Kalergis at Phleann@aol.com. She will work one-on-one with you and provide all you'll need to be successful and apply 25% of the total sales to your fundraising goal!
Silpada Jewelry Sales
By having a Silpada Jewelry party, the host/hostess (event participant) would receive a donation of 30% of their total party sales.
For Example:
Percentage Donated: 30%
Total sold during jewelry party: $1000
Total donated towards your fundraising goal: $300
Silpada is unique in the direct sales industry; there is no formal presentation and no pressure, just beautiful handcrafted sterling silver jewelry.
Home show
Invite, family, friends, neighbors, co-workers. Kim Goodrich will display sample pieces of Silpada, circulate catalogs, help your customers make selections and take orders. Kim could even attend a fundraising event and display jewelry there.
Catalog party
Kim would send you catalogs/order forms to distribute to your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. You would provide them with a due back date, collect the completed order forms and return them to Kim for processing.
How it Works:
If you would like to host a party, please contact Kim Goodrich at (508) 406-0117 or goodrichkim@yahoo.com.
Papa Gino’s Pizzeria - Idea - From the MS web site -
There is a Papa Gino's in Middletown. Team members could hand out flyers to family and friends that work in the Middletown Industrial Park or the Navy base.
This program offers participants or teams the opportunity to solicit people to visit Papa Gino's during a pre-determined time period. When guests make their purchase, they present a Papa Gino's flyer for their group. In turn, Papa Gino's will donate 20% of the guest's entire purchase to the benefiting group. The donation is valid on dine-in and carry-out only, provided the person making the purchase presents a fundraiser flyer.
How it Works:
Pick a day: Sunday through Thursday
Pick a time: Lunch, 11:00 through 4:00 PM
Dinner, 4:00 PM through 9:00 PM
Times and dates are at the discretion of the general manager of each Papa Gino’s location.
20% of the order goes to the participant or team’s fundraising effort.
Visit your local Papa Gino’s and request to hold a fundraising party. They will coordinate a date with you and give you the appropriate paperwork, which you will be responsible for making copies of and distributing to your supporters being invited to Papa Gino’s. The supporters must present these fliers when eating at a Papa Gino’s during the allotted time in order for the walkers to receive credits.
Coldstone Creamery - Idea
From the MS Web site
There is a Coldstone Creamery in Newport. We could coordinate the kids day event with this especially if we could have the kids day at the Elks.
Coldstone Creamery wants to help you with your fundraising. Set a specific date and time with your local Coldstone Creamery and a percentage of the sales during that time goes to the participant’s fundraising efforts.
Meet with the manager of your Coldstone Creamery, complete the necessary forms and then discuss and decide on the specific details accordingly. The manager will give you a flier to distribute to your supporters. Promote the event and raise money for MS while eating delicious ice cream!
Kids Day Event - Idea
Have a kids local entertainer like stub toe band, warren gray or ??? preform for free or very cheap at the least.
Hold it at the Elks, Newport or Wano Golf Course - some where free.
Charge a low price of $2.00 per person or
$5.00 per child and adults free
Also have face painting, balloon art or .....Portsmouth High School student??
coordinate this event with the cold store creamery event.
Wal-Mart Community Grant Awards - Idea - From MS Challenge Website
I have the information from Linda concerning this program.
Did you know that your local Wal-Mart awards Community Grants to nonprofit organizations and/or fundraising event participants (like yourself)? These awards can be anywhere from $100-$1000 in amount, and 100% of it goes towards your fundraising efforts. If there is a Wal-Mart in your area and you are interested in finding out more, please reach out to Todd Krohne at 781-693-5119 or todd.krohne@mam.nmss.org.
Shaw's Receipt Rewards Program - idea - From the MS Web site
One team member should volunteer to organize this program. We can send all receipts to them to organize, tally and submit. That team member would receive the funds from the program.
The Central New England chapter is a new member of the Shaw's Receipt Rewards Program. If you (or your friends and family) shop at any Shaw's and/or Star Markets, keep your receipts and and once you have at least $5,000 in receipts please submit them to us. Once we accumulate a significant amount in receipts will be send them to the Shaw's Receipt Rewards Program. In approximately 6-8 weeks, they will send us a check in the amount of 1% of the eligible receipts submitted. We will apply the appropriate amount of your receipts submitted to your fundraising account.
The key to your success with this program is in quantity. Get everyone you know who shops at a Shaw's or Star Market to send you their receipts. If you collect enough in receipts, you can make a nice addition to your fundraising efforts. This program is available on a continual basis so you have a lot of time to compile receipts. Good luck!
Once you have accumulated a sizable amount in Shaw's receipts (please wait until you have at least $5,000), send them to us. Please make sure that you include your name, your MS event name, and Shaw's Receipt Rewards Program on a note with the receipts. That way we can make sure it goes into your fundraising account.
Training with the Scrap Dogs - Tentative
I would like to organize these events.
We need to get local professionals in the health field (personal trainer, masseuse, yoga instructor, nutritionist, or anyone really) that will donate their time to give a brief seminar on proper eating habits while exercising, proper stretching, etc and then we will do a big walk. The public will pay a donation to walk with us and attend the seminar before.
We can coordinate this with the our YMCA training memberships. We could leave from the Y on some of the shorter walks.
Possible routes :
Y to Sachusett Point and Back
Y to Cliff Walk and Back
From Y around industrial park and back.
I would like to start these trainings in April. Having 2 in April, May, June, July and 4 in Aug and 1 in September.
Charge people $5.00 each to walk with us.
Saturday, October 11, 2009 - The Green Grocer in Portsmouth, RI will be having a Health and wellness Fair from 12 - 5 pm. Exhibiting at the fair will My Beach Designs, my daughter Ashley's business, she will be donating her proceeds to the Scrap Dogs. They have offered their location/parking lot for any type of event that we might like to have there. One idea will be to conduct a seminar there and start one of our "Training with the Scrap Dogs" walks from their location. So support their business and let them know you are part of the Scrap Dogs Team.
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