50/4000/30...The Global Giving Challenge is Here

     Global Giving is a website dedicated towards bringing organizations that are serving needs across the planet together with people who want to give.  Their site is a remarkable medley of people who are feeding the poor, caring for the homeless and pouring hope into the oppressed.  The site is remarkably efficient, allowing the user to find projects based on name or geography or even mission type.  Each represented organization has pictures and stories and backgrounds on their profile as well as detailed giving levels, providing a glimpse of what your money would be doing across the world.
     We would like to be included on this site.  It has the potential to be a strong, long-term fund-development resource.  Somewhere in this great big beautiful world there are more people who have a heart for a Youth Enrichment Center like this.  I want to make it easy to both find Joel's Place and donate to us.
     For this to happen, we need your help.  Global Giving has established criteria for who they allow onto their site.  We have submitted all the appropriate due diligence, now we have to pass their Challenge to demonstrate that we have enough established support to build on.  Here's what we need:

1. 50 unique donors.   Fifty separate families, corporations or organizations that will donate to Joel's Place on the Global Giving site.
2. $4000.  The total amount given needs to be over Four Thousand Dollars. 
3. 30 days.  All gifts must come in during the month of September.
4. The minimum donation is $10.  There is no maximum donation.

     These criteria could be met in any number of ways.  We could have one donor give $3,610 while thirty nine others each give $10.  We could have forty people give $80.  We could have ten people give $10, ten people give $50, nine people give $100 and one final person give $2500.  We could have 400 people each give $10.  I could go on, but you get the point.

     Global giving has some competitions that they hold this month: extra money for the group that has the most donors in September, matching funds if a certain percentage of the gifts are monthly and so on.  It is fun to compete, but first things first.  We are a tremendous asset to the community and I want as many people thinking about us and giving to us and praying for us as possible.

     Would you log on to this link and give at least $10?  And then forward my blog onto your friends, neighbors and other people who you think would be interested.  The competition starts at 12:01 am on September 1st.


Thank you everyone for your help and support.

We are going to crush this.

James