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Monday, May 23, 2011

You are eligible for a limited edition Team Vegan t-shirt if you have raised $500 for Vegan Outreach by June 1, 2011! The deadline is approaching…. Let me know if you’d like to increase your fundraising goal. Some donors like to be able to help you make your goal to get a shirt.

Go, team, go!

From 5/15/11: In just over 2 weeks, we're closing in on halfway to our current matching goal! I can't thank you enough for your efforts for the animals! Team Vegan by the numbers:

  • 122 members/teams 
  • Two teams from Canada! 
  • 23 U.S. States (and DC) represented by the following number of teams:  
    AZ - 26; CA – 22; CO – 3; CT – 1; DC – 3; FL – 3; GA – 2; IL – 15;
    IN – 2; MA – 4; MD – 4; MN – 3; NC – 2; NJ – 2; NM – 1; NY – 3;
    OH – 4; OR – 4; PA – 3; SC – 1; TX – 5; WA – 4; WI – 3
From 5/10/11: Since there are so many new members, this is a 'review' so that we're all on the same page. 

What is Team Vegan 2011?
Team Vegan is a fundraiser for Vegan Outreach. If you'd like to help raise money to support Vegan Outreach's Adopt a College program, you can join the team. Every dollar you raise will help activists reach more students with Vegan Outreach's booklets.
This fundraiser 'runs' from May 1 through June 30, 2011.

Until Friday, May 13 - Get a Bonus for Vegan Outreach!
Complete a profile (including a photo) and get a donation of at least $10 by Friday, May 13, and a generous donor will add $125 to your fundraising to support Vegan Outreach!

To update your profile and/or add a photo, please click on 'sign in' in the upper right corner of the site: http://teamvegan.biz/

Donations matched!
John and Fany, very generous supporters of Vegan Outreach, have again pledged to match all donations to $50,000. And Steve S. and Steve K. have joined them in pledging to match another $25,000. Help us reach this goal by joining the team, donating to a team member, or donating to the general fund from May 1 through June 30, 2011! We have the potential to raise $150,000 for Vegan Outreach's Adopt a College program.

Just so we're clear: The money you raise goes to Vegan Outreach to support the Adopt a College program, not to any one team member. Every dollar you raise prints more booklets to reach more students with the animals' message.

Prizes!
Raise $500 by June 1, 2011 and receive our special Team Vegan t-shirt in your choice of a running jersey or cotton t-shirt. Raise $1000 by June 30, 2011 and receive other great Vegan Outreach stuff! The Top 5 Fundraisers will each receive a $100 gift certificate to Vegan Essentials,Pangea, or The Vegetarian Site. Vegan Outreach employees are excluded from the fundraising prizes.
 
From 5/4/2011: Please be aware that GiveDirect (the people who process credit card donations to Vegan Outreach) is entirely separate from Team Vegan. After GiveDirect processes the credit card, they send me notice of the donation. I then enter it on the Team Vegan site. It may take a day. 

From 4/30/11: Some ideas for fundraising:

  • Ask family and friends to sponsor your running/walking/biking – per mile, per minute….
  • Ask loved ones to 'sponsor' your leafleting at a single event or during the fundraising period. Depending on your numbers (and their wallets), you could ask for 10 cents to $10 dollars per leaflet distributed, per hour – however you want to do it.
  • Have a vegan bake sale and donate the proceeds to Vegan Outreach!
  • Do some dog-, cat–walking/-sitting for friends and neighbors and ask them to give to your ‘page’.
  •  Give haircuts, massages, yoga (not all at once, though)!
  • Birthday in May or June? Ask family and friends to donate to your Team Vegan fundraising efforts for your birthday.

From 4/29/11: 

GiveDirect processes credit card donations for Vegan Outreach. (Vegan Outreach doesn’t have anyone’s credit card number.) After I receive the notice from GiveDirect about a donation to your ‘page’, I have to enter the donation into the Team Vegan site. GiveDirect is not connected to the Team Vegan page in any way. Please be aware (and make your donors aware) that it may be 24 hours before a donation appears on your page.