HR Carnival of Giving — How We Did!

A time for giv­ing thanks

Update: we have now col­lected $1,765,00..thanks!

What bet­ter day to do a post thank­ing a bunch of spe­cial peo­ple than the actual day of Thanks­giv­ing, at least here in my home coun­try of the United States.   Who am I thank­ing?   Each and every one of the (so far) 83 peo­ple who took part in my HR Car­ni­val of Global Giv­ing.  The thing was enor­mous, and yielded more dona­tions than I ever antic­i­pated.   I’ll tell you the total amount and the char­ity that was ran­domly selected at the bot­tom of this post.

The Money People

Here are the names of the peo­ple who have gen­er­ously con­tributed finan­cial sup­port.  If I have omit­ted any­one, it is unin­ten­tional.  Please let me know if I did!   Oth­er­wise, let me extend each and every one of you on the list (except for me, of course!) my heart­felt grat­i­tude and thanks for your sup­port and gen­eros­ity.   We did a good thing here!

• Karla Porter
• Mark Stelzner
• Kris Dunn
• Joan Gins­berg
• Lance Haun
• Steve Boese
• China Gor­man
• Michael Van­Der­vort
• Susan Burns
• Naomi Bloom
• Tal­ented Apps
• Fran Melmed
• Robin Schoool­ing
• Mike Krupa
• Tammy Col­son
• Kevin Gross­man
• Leanne Chase
• Angela Rosario of Job­ing Tampa
• Meghan M. Biro
• Lisa Rosendahl
• Shauna Moerke
• Larry Wil­son
• Paul Smith
• Jen­nifer V. Miller
• Joan Schramm

A lit­tle mo’ money?

If you had a post pub­lished, and didn’t donate, I’d like to ask just this one time that con­sider doing so.  If each per­son who posted, but isn’t on the above list could send in $6, we would achieve a pretty mag­i­cal num­ber for this lit­tle impromptu exper­i­ment in social media fundrais­ing.   How mag­i­cal, you say?  Check out what we have raised so far!

And the win­ning char­ity as deter­mined by a ran­dom num­ber gen­er­a­tor is.…

the char­ity sbmit­ted by Dan McCarthy of the Great Lead­er­ship blog.   Dan is a col­league from the Smart­brief Work­force advi­sory board, but some­one I haven’t met in per­son yet.   Dan sub­mit­ted Chil­dren Await­ing Par­ents as his char­ity of choice.

Chil­dren Await­ing Par­ents, Inc. (CAP) is a national, non­profit 501©(3) orga­ni­za­tion gov­erned by a vol­un­teer board of direc­tors. For 37 years, they have been ded­i­cated to find­ing adop­tive homes for America’s wait­ing children.

CAP’s mis­sion is to recruit fos­ter and adop­tive fam­i­lies across the United States for chil­dren who have been wait­ing the longest for a fam­ily. Our wait­ing chil­dren are often older, minori­ties, sib­ling groups who wish to be placed together, or chil­dren with emo­tional, men­tal and/or phys­i­cal dis­abil­i­ties — chil­dren who are typ­i­cally cat­e­go­rized as “spe­cial needs” or “hard­est to place”.

How much will be donated?

Oper­at­ing on the gen­er­ous assump­tion that each of our gen­er­ous con­trib­u­tors will fund their full com­mit­ment (despite com­ing up  lit­tle short of 100 posts), we have cur­rently raised a grand total of $1,530.00!

If each per­son who sup­plied a post would donate just $6, we would be able to donate over $2,000 to this won­der­ful orga­ni­za­tion.   We just need another $470!  Can you help us get there?

How to donate

Whether you are on the cur­rent list of con­trib­u­tors, or just con­sid­er­ing it now, we need to get the funds to Chil­dren Await­ing Par­ents.   Given that we are scat­tered all over the world, I am going to sug­gest that the fastest way for every­one to make their dona­tion is to use this link to send your money and go ahead and make your dona­tion directly.  I would just ask that you make your dona­tion on behalf of the 2009 HR Car­ni­val of Giv­ing.    If you have already sent me a check, or donated through posta­dol­lar, I will make sure that those funds are included along with my own donation.

Once again, my deep­est thanks to all of you, and please enjoy a safe and happy hol­i­day sea­son, wher­ever you may be!

Michael Van­Der­vort

Related Posts:

• Global Warm­ing is a lie!
• Sun­day shoutout to the HR community
• HR Car­ni­val of Global Giv­ing is now open!
• Becom­ing a Contributor
• Social Media and Mar­ket­ing at Social Fresh Tampa

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