Other than going door to door and selling wrapping paper in elementary school, I have very little experience fundraising. I fear that mostly this is due to the fact that I simply don't associate with people who have flush funds to donate, nor do I have enough time or funds on my own hands to consider those less fortunate than I.
There's a first time for everything. This year me and Jason are doing a little fundraising for our Hood to Coast relay team. We are charged with raising 700$ for the
Portland Providence Medical Foundation in order to participate with our team this year in the race. PPMF does cancer research and also funds medical support for people who struggle financially.
We even have a donation website! Check it out
here. Maybe you might even want to donate some money. It's for a good cause.
In exchange for your donations, the 12 of us will run 198 miles in about 30 hours. We will live a van and subsist on goldfish, peanut butter sandwiches, and Gatorade. We will not shower, though some us us might change our shorts. We will not sleep more than a few hours at a time. We will make crude jokes and annoy each other due to sleep deprivation. We will promise ourselves that this is the last year that we do this race. We will finish on the lovely Oregon Coast, eat pizza, drink beer, have glorious sleeps and then before we even realize it, begin to plan next year's race.
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| Look how cute we are. Want to give us some money? |
