Tis the season...
Dec. 8th, 2004 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiFandom-centric Holiday Fundraising Thingies
Get a Clue, Give a Galleon, Get a Sticker with The Leaky Cauldron - sticky (for cars, etc.) and static (for windows) stickers are available and every dollar above cost will go to aid Book Aid International in their fight to bring literacy to underdeveloped nations. Harry Potter fans, through Leaky, Inc., are responsible for purchasing more than 13,000 books -$30,000 - in the last two years. Stay tuned to TLC for some interesting updates on the drive (and, er, sorry about the need to scroll)!
DanRadcliffe.com and DanRadcliffe.co.uk are co-presenting a fundraiser for Demelza House Children's Hospice in the UK at the request of Dan and his family. All fans that donate to this very worthy cause will have the opportunity to send Christmas thoughts and wishes to Dan along with their donations. All of the thoughts and wishes will be collected by both sites and then combined and printed in a professionally bound book for Dan this Christmas season, courtesy of Demelza House! ALL those wanting to have a Christmas message published and sent to Dan for the holidays needs to make their donation and send in their message no later than 17 December 2004. For details on how to submit your Christmas wish to Dan please see the Donations and Questions section here. (Don't post them in comments - I won't know the answers!)
Things Beyond Fandom That Impact Fandomers:
If you're looking for the info I postes about the Action Figures Action toy-drive, in support of the toy drive at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubydebrazier's hospital, you can find it here.
Friends ofsapphireisle's mom have set up a website to raise money to help her deal with expenses not covered by insurance that have accrued over hte past few years while she's been battling a rare form of cancer. You can chip in via the website, and check out some eBay auctions and other shopping things that will help her out as well.
I also know of at least two ongoing computer drives but I will not post the info here, because I am not friends-locking this post. If you want more information about either of them, email me - and I ask that nobody post info about them in the comments - we want the recipients to be surprised!
Things Relating to the Toy Drive (see above) and the Computer Fund Whip-Around
I've been asked how much money was spent on flash drives or security devices for Cassie, Josh and Ruby's coputers - the answer is none. Someone did offer to send a flash drive; when it arrives I'll give it to the three of them to decide who's going to use it, but it's not something that any of the money is going to be spent on, per my post here where I asked if anyone was able to send the drives themselves.
I've also been asked why I spent money on security devices for the computers, and I assume that said question referred to my post here, as if I was somehow saying that I was going to use some of the whip-around funds to get three of those installations. No, I was asking as a general question, to see if anyone had something like that, or thought it was a good thing to have on a laptop in general. Again, no money from the whip-around has been spent on that, nor will it be.
Now, here's the plan as to sending the money raised to the toy drive - on the 15th, I'm going to send a check via fedex (which I am paying for myself) to Ruby of whatever was not used for the computer purchases themselves for her to use for the toy drive, from what has been given via PayPal, and send her the checks that arrive as well. Since anything that comes in after the 16th won't be used for this year, I'm probably going to wait until the 30th or so to see if any more checks come in, and then send all those to Ruby as a starter for the 2005 drive. I also plan to refuse/refund (however PayPal terms it) any PayPal contributions that come in after the 15th, because we can't use them for this toy drive, but any checks that come in after the 30th - well, I'll probably send anything that comes in after the 30th some time in January or February, if any arrive, but please don't put any in the mail after the 14th - it likely won't get here in time. And don't ask me yet if I'm going to organize another toy drive next year - it's too far away to contemplate.
Get a Clue, Give a Galleon, Get a Sticker with The Leaky Cauldron - sticky (for cars, etc.) and static (for windows) stickers are available and every dollar above cost will go to aid Book Aid International in their fight to bring literacy to underdeveloped nations. Harry Potter fans, through Leaky, Inc., are responsible for purchasing more than 13,000 books -$30,000 - in the last two years. Stay tuned to TLC for some interesting updates on the drive (and, er, sorry about the need to scroll)!
DanRadcliffe.com and DanRadcliffe.co.uk are co-presenting a fundraiser for Demelza House Children's Hospice in the UK at the request of Dan and his family. All fans that donate to this very worthy cause will have the opportunity to send Christmas thoughts and wishes to Dan along with their donations. All of the thoughts and wishes will be collected by both sites and then combined and printed in a professionally bound book for Dan this Christmas season, courtesy of Demelza House! ALL those wanting to have a Christmas message published and sent to Dan for the holidays needs to make their donation and send in their message no later than 17 December 2004. For details on how to submit your Christmas wish to Dan please see the Donations and Questions section here. (Don't post them in comments - I won't know the answers!)
Things Beyond Fandom That Impact Fandomers:
If you're looking for the info I postes about the Action Figures Action toy-drive, in support of the toy drive at
rubydebrazier's hospital, you can find it here. Friends of
sapphireisle's mom have set up a website to raise money to help her deal with expenses not covered by insurance that have accrued over hte past few years while she's been battling a rare form of cancer. You can chip in via the website, and check out some eBay auctions and other shopping things that will help her out as well. I also know of at least two ongoing computer drives but I will not post the info here, because I am not friends-locking this post. If you want more information about either of them, email me - and I ask that nobody post info about them in the comments - we want the recipients to be surprised!
Things Relating to the Toy Drive (see above) and the Computer Fund Whip-Around
I've been asked how much money was spent on flash drives or security devices for Cassie, Josh and Ruby's coputers - the answer is none. Someone did offer to send a flash drive; when it arrives I'll give it to the three of them to decide who's going to use it, but it's not something that any of the money is going to be spent on, per my post here where I asked if anyone was able to send the drives themselves.
I've also been asked why I spent money on security devices for the computers, and I assume that said question referred to my post here, as if I was somehow saying that I was going to use some of the whip-around funds to get three of those installations. No, I was asking as a general question, to see if anyone had something like that, or thought it was a good thing to have on a laptop in general. Again, no money from the whip-around has been spent on that, nor will it be.
Now, here's the plan as to sending the money raised to the toy drive - on the 15th, I'm going to send a check via fedex (which I am paying for myself) to Ruby of whatever was not used for the computer purchases themselves for her to use for the toy drive, from what has been given via PayPal, and send her the checks that arrive as well. Since anything that comes in after the 16th won't be used for this year, I'm probably going to wait until the 30th or so to see if any more checks come in, and then send all those to Ruby as a starter for the 2005 drive. I also plan to refuse/refund (however PayPal terms it) any PayPal contributions that come in after the 15th, because we can't use them for this toy drive, but any checks that come in after the 30th - well, I'll probably send anything that comes in after the 30th some time in January or February, if any arrive, but please don't put any in the mail after the 14th - it likely won't get here in time. And don't ask me yet if I'm going to organize another toy drive next year - it's too far away to contemplate.
