Growing Snowflowers

Fundraising Ideas?

As you know, our family has been fundraising from the time we started the adoption process for Paisley. We really love being able to help our favorite Charities like Love Without Boundaries, Our Chinese Daughters Foundation, CCAI's charity projects, Project(RED) among others. We are extremely grateful for the wonderful support we get from the adoption community and fellow bloggers as well and friends and relatives. Now that we have our referral we need to get cracking on

OPERATION; BRING PAISLEY HOME!


This is why we are turning to you to give us new and fresh ideas. I love to see how other families in this process are reaching out to their community to bring their children home, and I am amazed at not only the generosity, but the generosity of spirit that so many people have.

After three years of submitting an Adoption Benefit proposal to Mike's Employer they finally implemented a $5000 benefit starting in 2008! This is outstanding! We are so grateful, we spent three long years building a comprehensive proposal and we are proud that it will help many families in the future, not just our own. These funds will not be available until Paisley's adoption is finalized, so we hope to use them towards medical care.

We are also in awe of the support we get when raising money through our iPod fundraisers, we like knowing that a portion of the proceeds goes to project(RED).

Now that we have more questions about Paisleys condition and health, we are trying to prepare for the amount of medical care she will need once she gets home, we fully expect to meet all the out of pocket deductibles our medical insurance requires, heck, we'll probably meet them in the first month home! What matters most is that we get to bring our daughter to Minnesota, to one of the finest areas in the country for medical care. We are lucky to live in the suburbs of Minneapolis, our network of hospitals and care providers is outstanding!

So,...where do we go from here? We need new and fresh ideas! We are ready & willing to do as much as it takes to get our little girl home! If there are adoption bloggers out there that have had success with a particular event or fundraiser please feel free to leave a comment with your ideas!

We are also hoping that anyone who has leftover odds and ends of NWA frequent flier miles consider donating them to our travel fund. If we can just get the domestic portion covered with frequent flier miles, we can better spend the money we raise on the remaining adoption expenses.

For anyone who is interested in the iPod fundraiser, we still have many tickets available. We'd love to sell all of them before the December 18 deadline. Thanks to everyone who have already purchased tickets!

We are also an affiliate for Ergo...if you are interested in purchasing one for your child please click on the actual ERGO picture on the right hand sidebar...it will take you directly to Ergo!

We also ask that if you have the means, please donate something to one of the fine charities listed on our links section. We raised $250 (plus another $250 matching from Mikes Employer) for the coal for children fund in China's poorest rural orphanages. This year, since we wont have Paisley home for Christmas our gift to her is to donate a flock of geese to two families in China through Heifer International. Gifts that give back rock!

Thanks ~ The Hoppe's