soli deo gloria: starting the year with a RAFFLE for hope!!

starting the year with a RAFFLE for hope!!

Happy 2011!! We are going to be kicking off the new year with a little fundraiser here at Team Alexander. It will benefit the people of Dube Bute and of course whoever wins!! :) 2010 was so FULL for our family as we had the blessing of traveling to the very village where Eyasu spent the first 2 years of his life. 2011 is the year that that village receives HOPE in the form of 27 clean water points, new schools, a library, a health clinic and a vet clinic. Here is a way to help bring that hope and win some cool stuff!

We already have some great items to giveaway as Gwen and Suz at 147 Million Orphans have graciously donated a tumbler and a shirt, Kari at My Crazy Adoption has donated an awesome Simply Love T, Erica has donated one of their groovy shirts too! A darling little keychain from Deena. Joely is going to do a custom piece of art for the lucky winner, and there is some Ethiopian jewelry, large wooden cross, beautiful silver Ethiopian cross, a scarf, a messenger bag from the Alert Hospital in Addis, a Hope for Dube Bute hoodie, hat and shirt!

If you have something that you would like to donate, that would be awesome! Just let me know. Anything would be a HUGE benefit to the village transformation in Ethiopia. I will continue to add items if they come in! Anyone that donates to the haul, will get their name in the drawing. :)

So.... here are the rules...and how you can start 2011 by bringing HOPE!

1. For every $10 donation given through the donate button (will link you to the campaign page)... it buys you a raffle ticket for the loot. You get 1 entry for any $10 donation or 2 entries for $20 and so on.

2. After you have donated $10 or more, you can get more entries by Facebooking or Twittering or any other social media about this raffle... that gives you 1 more raffle ticket entry (1 entry per social media)

3. If you Blog Post this raffle... that gives you 1 more raffle ticket entry

4. I can only ship within the United States

5. Please comment on this blog post letting me know if you bought a raffle ticket, or if you facebooked, twittered, blogged, etc., since clearly I won't know if I'm not "friends with you on Facebook" or "follow" you on Twitter. You can email me at teamalexander at mac dot com

More details:

1. Raffle ends January 11th.

2. We will have a video drawing of the winner posted on this blog on January 12th.

thank you Heather, I just may have copied and pasted the rules from your recent raffle! :)

12 comments:

Holli said...: How much for the table they are sitting on? :)
Happy New Year!!!
Hoping for HOPE!!! :); January 1, 2011 11:53 AM
Heather said...: lol! I'm glad I could help out! :)
What a great idea for Dube Bute!!!!; January 1, 2011 12:31 PM
Kendra said...: Hi Emily-
I would love to donate one of my shirts. You can see them here: http://4boys1girl-kchiolis.blogspot.com/

Just let me know what to do. My email is cholo5@wescomm.com

Kendra; January 1, 2011 10:18 PM
Deena said...: Awesome idea Emily! I would be happy to make and send more necklaces, keychains, etc. Just let me know what you would like. Happy New Year!!!; January 2, 2011 12:05 AM
Lyndsay said...: We'd love to donate an adult and kiddo size tee from our adoption fundraising.
Also we found out Miss B's birthplace, and I believe it is very near Eyasu's. I'd love to find out if you know where it is.; January 2, 2011 7:45 PM
Ashhog said...: Hey there! I donated, facebooked, twittered, and blogged about this raffle!! Great idea!! :); January 3, 2011 10:01 AM
Lori said...: Korah t-shirt and leather Yami cuff? All for Hope in His name. Tell me the size you want. LoPa loves hope!; January 3, 2011 10:48 PM
notperfectmomma said...: Hi Emily, I would love to donate an outfit/dress of choice up to a $45 value, or I guess maybe a $45 gift certificate:) from my store, Beautiful Brown Eyed Girl Boutique. I sew boutique style childrens clothing with profits going to orphan care around the world. Let me know if you are interested as I would love to help with this GREAT idea! Thanks, Amy
www.beautifulbrowneyedgirlboutique.blogspot.com; January 4, 2011 12:21 AM
Missy @ It's Almost Naptime said...: Emily, I can donate one of our adoption tanks -

http://itsalmostnaptime.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-adopted-youre-adopted.html

love missy; January 8, 2011 12:42 AM
Rebecca said...: Love all that you all are doing for Dube Bute! I just donated $100 and blogged about it! Hope you guys raise a ton of money with this raffle!; January 11, 2011 12:11 PM
Crystal Scheffler said...: donated. Thanks for the opportunity.; January 11, 2011 10:47 PM
Crystal Scheffler said...: and posted the raffle on facebook! :); January 11, 2011 10:48 PM