We're winning??! We're winning! 24Hour donation prize.
Do you have twelve bucks?
It's all about sheer numbers of donors.
DoMore24 is 24 hours of fundraising (the clock runs till midnight tonight). The project with the most donors wins not just the donations, but an additional $4K towards, well, in our case--
-- the renovations that the county just approved yesterday. Phase one has begun!
And we're winning.
If the temple stays #1 by midnight tonight with the highest number of individual donors, it'll make a huge difference. I don't think I can sell $4,000 worth of toys. Not in a day anyway.
So do you have twelve bucks?**
You'd be supporting the 24-hour prayer vigil, daily prayer request practices (most monasteries expect a donation for each prayer request; we've always done them free), the Garuda Aviary wild bird rescue and sanctuary, nuns going out to run Buddhist meditation classes in prisons, the home of nuns like Ani Samla who cares for our feral cat colony (they've all be TNR'd), a 65-acre wildlife refuge, and a place the Montgomery County Interfaith committee called:
"...the best kept secret in Montgomery County." They said our place is amazing, yet no one knows we're here.*
Eeeeee!
* Actually, the birders know we're here. The Peace Park wildlife refuge is listed in the local birder's guide and is a regular stop for rare birds.
** We're winning!
ETA: There's also the food bank, animal rescue, my Tibetan classes--you get the idea. We do lots of Good Things.
It's all about sheer numbers of donors.
DoMore24 is 24 hours of fundraising (the clock runs till midnight tonight). The project with the most donors wins not just the donations, but an additional $4K towards, well, in our case--
-- the renovations that the county just approved yesterday. Phase one has begun!
And we're winning.
If the temple stays #1 by midnight tonight with the highest number of individual donors, it'll make a huge difference. I don't think I can sell $4,000 worth of toys. Not in a day anyway.
So do you have twelve bucks?**
You'd be supporting the 24-hour prayer vigil, daily prayer request practices (most monasteries expect a donation for each prayer request; we've always done them free), the Garuda Aviary wild bird rescue and sanctuary, nuns going out to run Buddhist meditation classes in prisons, the home of nuns like Ani Samla who cares for our feral cat colony (they've all be TNR'd), a 65-acre wildlife refuge, and a place the Montgomery County Interfaith committee called:
"...the best kept secret in Montgomery County." They said our place is amazing, yet no one knows we're here.*
Eeeeee!
* Actually, the birders know we're here. The Peace Park wildlife refuge is listed in the local birder's guide and is a regular stop for rare birds.
** We're winning!
ETA: There's also the food bank, animal rescue, my Tibetan classes--you get the idea. We do lots of Good Things.