Look what WE did! The campaign is ending today and Fundly is working as we speak to start tranferring the money over to The Greater St Louis Area Food Bank. The money will be used in the Ferguson/Florissant area over the next year to feed children and their families. Working with the people in their office and the Fundly office has been a wonderful experience: when the Fundly CEO calls you at 8 PM and gives you his own personal cell phone number you know youre working with great people. This has been a tremendous ride from start to finish and I thank every one of you who helped in any way: donating, RTing and Tweeting, Facebooking, emailing, everything. A big thanks to Buzzfeed, The Daily Dot, WNCN Raleigh and the Christian Science Monitor for their interest in this crazy story and for helping to generate the buzz that got us to $38k. Thank you to everyone who contacted the Food Bank to volunteer and thank you to everyone who helped me find the food bank in the first place, namely Robin Wheeler-Barber. Thank you to Marissa Langlais for creating the feedthestudents.org website. I feel like I need to reiterate that they and I are, or were, complete strangers, and they both did this spontaneously in the spirit of giving- in the case of the website it was somehow up and running about 30 minutes tops after she said it was going to be. The speed with which this morphed from I think Ill hit some of my friends up for some $ and maybe Ill have a couple hundred or a thousand bucks to give to a Ferguson charity to Hey, the Fundly CEO is calling and youve got $38,000 in the coffers is still mind-boggling in the best way. If anyone you know doesnt understand the appeal of social media: lead them to our story. Not mine- ours- I feel like I was just very lucky to be the conduit for this amazing collective action. Immense thanks also to my inner circle who sprung to action to help once I realized how big this was getting: my husband, Ian Mendelsohn my friend Chris Ayers who is a Tweeting machine, and my friend Brian Quinn of Silverbackks who served as my Do Gooder Guru throughout the process. Thanks to Dennis Hu, Fundly CEO, Krystal Gandola, Fundly Community Manager, Verletta Cole, VP of Development for the St. Louis Area Food Bank (and new grandmother as of a few hours ago! Mazel Tov!) and Benjamin Spirk, VP of Finance for the St. Louis Area Foodbank. So: the party is over, so to speak, but man,it was a great one, and we will be able to help countless kids in the Ferguson/Florissant area because of it.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:57:35 +0000
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