Help my team help Rwandan genocide survivors

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Heya folks,

As those of you I'm close to know, I'm participating in GISH this year. It's a 'scavenger hunt' (more like a task list) that Misha Collins started way back when and has since snowballed into something amazing and very, very, VERY Tower-like. A huge number of the tasks that participants must complete are focused on helping their local community and making the world a better place. A portion of all proceeds go to charitable purposes and to fund the non-profit Random Acts (randomacts.org) which makes its mission to go about performing random acts of kindness around the world.

It's beautiful. I love it so much.

Anyway, this year one of our tasks is to raise money to help women survivors of genocide in Rwanda by providing a plot of farmland + resources to establish a cooperative farm and market so they can support their children and help their community thrive. The overall goal is to raise $108,000, but my team is just trying to get together $300 $500 of that total. All donations are 100% tax deductible, and 100% of donations go to the cause, so this is 100% a fantastic thing to do.

If you're interested in helping me hit our goal, please go to the link below and donate! I will personally bake cookies (or do some other act of kindness) for everyone who contributes- just let me know you did!

 
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This is pretty damn awesome :)
 

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Sweet! How long do you have to raise it? I get paid tomorrow.
 

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It ends on Saturday!
 

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What kind of cookies? :cheeseeni:
 

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Update- we hit our financial goal and expanded it, but I missed the part where we had to have ten individual people who are not on our team donate in order for it to count. We're at 7! :eek
 

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I donated. No need for cookies, I'm not sure they'd get here in one piece lol
 

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Thank you so much! :joy

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I contributed, and accept your offer of pretty virtual cookies. ;)

Back in high school, my extended essay was actually on the UN's lack of action in preventing mass genocide back in the 90's.
 

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Donated! and also shared on Twitter. :pleased-1:
 

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Thank you both!!

I shared this via the page, but figured I'd copy here, too:

Yesterday, Misha Collins and Random Acts provided GISH players with the opportunity to make a real difference for a community of strong, unbeatable women in Rwanda. How could we not champion such a beautiful cause? Team OreGishers jumped at the opportunity with both feet, a smile, and zero expectations.

To our surprise, we sailed past $100 in the first ten minutes, then $300 in the first few hours. Now we're at the 24 hour mark and we've already hit $500. Thank you so much to our donors!

We are happy and honored to facilitate this effort, and incredibly proud to raise our goal again- this time to $1000. It's double what we have now, but since when have GISHers and world-changers been afraid of a challenge? (Never!)

We're all very excited to have this opportunity, but we need your help to reach our new goal by Saturday! Will you share this link to get the word out?

Thank you again,

Sunny and the OreGishers
 

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We appear to have killed the crowdrise servers. I'm :rofl
 

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And we're back in business. Also, if we reach that $1000 mark we will be the #2 fundraising team in ALL OF GISH.

Help me do this, pleeeease. Share the link + my update text on your social media even if you can't donate. I would love you all forever and ever. <3
 
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