Holiday Bus Drive Results
The numbers are in and we’ve exceeded our goal! A sincere thanks to all of you who contributed.
A quick recap: Back in December we ran a fundraiser with our friends at Puny Entertainment to try to raise $7,000 to send the kids at Green Central school on a field trip. Not knowing what kind of response we’d get, we built a website to tell the school’s story and offered three ways for people to contribute: donating money, shopping at the Box Tops for Education Marketplace, and collecting Box Tops for the school.
The results: We raised $6,170 in direct donations and Zeus Jones provided $2,500 in matching funds, adding up to a total of $8,670 for Green Central. It costs about $7,000 to fully fund a field trip for the whole school, and we’re thrilled to have raised more than enough to do that.
It’ll be another month or so before we can report on the Box Tops for Education portion of our fundraiser, but you can continue to support Green Central by doing your online shopping at the BTFE Marketplace. And if you didn’t get a chance to donate during the Bus Drive and you’d still like to, give us a holler – we’re delivering a check at the end of the month so we’d be happy to add on your contribution.
Where the money is headed: We’re hoping to tag along as chaperones and photographers on the Bus Drive-funded field trips that Green Central students will take in 2010. Stay tuned for updates and photos here on the blog.