Third Tuesday Food Drive Success
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Posted in: charity, meetup, vancouver
Tags: events, social media for change
Earlier that evening I was collecting donations for a Food Bank food drive. As you can see, the 12 boxes I received from the food bank a few days ago are now completely full, and we have 2-3 more cloth bags full of canned goods. It was so nice to see everyone chip in, whatever they could, to support this cause.
Since the silent auction for the Canucks tickets was a little too silent in the bid department, I decided to raffle them off with all proceeds going directly to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. I would like to keep the raffle going for a little while longer to give others a chance to donate. You can purchase entries, 3 for $5 or 7 for $10. Should you wish to have a chance at these (row 25, section 103, this Saturday versus the Edmonton Oilers) please donate online and send me your confirmation and I will assign you a raffle ticket (exactly like the ones that were given out tonight). I will keep this open until 9:00am tomorrow Wednesday, October 22nd.
These are $100 tickets (each!) and you could have them for $5 or $10. Every $1.00 donated allows The Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society to purchase $3.00 worth of food.
Thank you to Reachd, Kate, Kulpreet Singh, and the Vancouver Giants for donating prizes, to Tanya and Monica for organizing the event, Mhairi for her talk, and Jenn Lowther for giving the donations and me a lift.
I will update this post at 9:05am tomorrow with the winning raffle ticket number. Good luck, and thank you!
Update: By special request from Kulpreet (which he can do since he donated the tickets) this will be held over until 10:00am today. You can still donate and enter to win the tickets until that time.
Update: We have a winner! 548247. And for the record… Cameron is actually not very excited…. maybe cause he didn’t win 
October 21st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I came *this* close to being there myself – maybe next time. Thanks for the post!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Congratulations! You did a great thing there.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 am
[...] to Tanya & Monica for organizing the event. Also, props to Miss604 who collected donations for the Food Bank and arranged for prizes to encourage people to donate to the Food Bank. She collected a lot of [...]
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:34 am
Hey, where’s my pingback, dammit? Here:
http://fearlesscity.ca/blogs/raincoaster/food-bank-donation-tips
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 am
That’s so awesome – congrats on such a successful night
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
@ Rob – hope to see you out soon!
@ Raincoaster – it got sent to moderation – but I rescued this one
@ Keira-Anne – thanks – and I’m going to send you an IM right now and say that too.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 am
Thanks for the mention and for organising the fund raiser. I hope you get lots of money for the food bank.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
*phew* thought i missed out. (sent u an email with my confirmation). COngrats on your success last night!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
WOW! I just squeeked in under the wire!! Made my donation at 9:59am!! Just had a look at your blog and saw the deadline was changed. Phew!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:52 am
548247 – take me with you!!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Woo! Congratulations 548247!
Thanks to everyone who donated and to Rebecca for doing this
-k.s.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Dang!! Just missed it by a few! Have fun 548247! I hope the Canucks win!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
i dunno know what numbers i had
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Woohoo! Thanks Rebecca!! Glad i could help out the GVFBS!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Umm, since I donated, but couldn’t make it and Rebecca has my tickets…I have no idea if I should be happy or not.
Regardless an awesome example of social media for good.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Good work that was a lot of stuff to lug down to the car today. Cameron is pretty happy to be famous now.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Great work Rebeccca! The food bank is always a great cause!
October 24th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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