[Nfbc-info] Brainstorming! Fundraising idea part II

Sat Aug 15 03:25:02 UTC 2009

    Hi Bruce.
A virtual pizza is a dietters delight.
Go ahead add as many toppings as you like, bring a group of friends along 
and eat up!  Enjoy straw hat's delicious salads, have some crazy garlic 
twist--don't worry about the breath mints we will provide those,
Drink the beverage of your choice,
have some Monzerella cheese sticks and of course lots of pizza am I 
forgetting anything??
If I am order it anyway!  What we are trying to do for those who come to our 
virtual feast is creative a little incintive perhaps some coupons from straw 
hat
or maybe some other prizes we will draw names from the people who 
contribute.
Don't worry about extra pounds because the only ones who will gain weight 
are the golden gate bridge walk and the NFBC Newark convention as more 
people are able to attend.
Both the bridgewalk and the convention can handle those extra pounds very 
nicely as more blind people are able to be there.
Our virtual is different from CyberSpace virtual because those who support 
it will donate real money.
In addition on Monday September 21 we will have a real pizza event at the 
Straw hat pizza located at Kiefer in Sacramento from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The money we are able to generate from both event
s will go in to a fund the River City chapter will
 keep track of and use to pay for the convention busses.
If you can help us get some prizes from Straw Hat's corporate office that 
would be fantastic. We will give them away to our Cyber Feast attendees.

Thanks
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Sexton Jr." <bjsexton at comcast.net>
To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Brainstorming! Fundraising idea part II

> Hello Mike and others,
>
> is anyone else confused as to what a virtual pizza is?  I don't understand 
> the entire concept, please elaborate.
>
> -B.J.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Terra Peterson" <poolprincess at att.net>
> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Brainstorming! Fundraising idea part II
>
>
> I don't know if this is possible, but I think it would be cool to do a 
> drawing for those who participate in the "virtual pizza". This could give 
> some incentive to help the effort. We could ask for donations for the 
> raffle prize. Maybe even a free pizza. What do you think?
>
> Terra
>
> --- On Fri, 8/14/09, Juliett Cody <julietcody at cox.net> wrote:
>
> From: Juliett Cody <julietcody at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Brainstorming! Fundraising idea part II
> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 12:26 AM
>
> Dear Mike, I would be happy to help with a check. Plus I will bring it up 
> to Beach Cities, and CAGDU.
> Thanks,
> JC
> JC
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Peterson" 
> <its_mike at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>; "California 
> Association of Blind Students Mailing List" <cabs-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:17 AM
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Brainstorming! Fundraising idea part II
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>> Hi all I have begun working on the "giant pizza feast which will be held 
>> on the first day of fall September 21 2009 More details soon but heres 
>> part II
>> Many of you want to help grow our convention and can't attend the pizza 
>> event because you are to far away or because of other obligations or 
>> maybe just because your counting callories!
>> Would those who can't make it be willing to support a simultaneous 
>> virtual effort?
>> I will tell you how the check or money order is to be written out if this 
>> sounds good and it will be to the sponsoring NFBC chapter.
>> You can donate just like you would buy pizza $3 $5 whatever by check or 
>> money order because if you pay through paypal they might have a limit 
>> minimum. When I was working with the American cancer society it was $10.
>> I'm not asking for virtual pizza purchases yet just want feed back would 
>> you be willing to help that way rather than having to buy a coupon book 
>> you might never use, also is there interest in coupon books at $15 $20 a 
>> piece with straw hat if we can get that fund drive happening?
>> I would like to finish this drive by the beginning to say the 14th of 
>> october.
>> Once the bus going to the convention is covered if additional funds are 
>> left over we could perhaps donate them to the affiliate to be used to 
>> help sponsor members who need help attending the convention.
>> Or would you feel more compelled to donate to the virtual fund if we 
>> solely used this portion to sponsor people so they could afford to come 
>> thus helping boost our attendance.
>> We really need the highest attendance possible and as many blind people 
>> as possible walking across the golden gate bridge. It's a statement for 
>> braille literacy and it's a statement letting everyone know the NFBC is 
>> alive and well in California that blind people care about their future 
>> and want to be involved in shapeing it!
>> We need in my opinion 300 or more to attend if possible because with all 
>> the California budget cuts it will show those who need to know blind 
>> people are concerned!
>> If they see a larger group they will know that we have lots more at home 
>> who couldn't be there.
>> While we might not be impacted further with SSI SSD other programs could 
>> be impacted because money is tighter.
>> We also need to have our voice affectively heard with vocational 
>> rehabilitation and the Kendell reader just to name a few projects and 
>> while numbers physical numbers aren't everything they do help.
>>
>> Other efforts you can make on and individual basis, invite a friend or 
>> two share a room if you need to not just to save you money but to make it 
>> possible for others to come also share any ideas you may have how we can 
>> get more blind people to attend.
>> Mike Peterson
>>
>>
>> Mike Peterson
>>
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