With summer just around the corner (school gets out three weeks from today), there are a few opportunities that I would like to share with you in case you were wondering how you could help support Joel's Place during these next few months.
Walk for Charity
Next Friday is the Fairbanks Visitor Industry Walk for Charity. You can go to their webpage here. It is a 4K walk/graze through downtown that will raise money for Joel's Place and other great causes. The online registration deadline is this Monday the 5th of May. Here's a look at the front page of their website if you are curious:
VISITOR INDUSTRY WALK FOR CHARITY
Fairbanks, May 9th, 2014
The 2014 Walk for Charity starts at 6:00 Friday, May 9th at the Immaculate Conception Church parking lot.
Raise money for your favorite charities as you feast on fabulous food on this fun 4k walk!
Adults must raise a minimum of $25 and children $15. (avoid a late fee by registering by May 4th).
Online registration is open.
Choose from one of 60 registered charities to receive 100% of your donated funds. If you'd like to mail your donation,
Download the 2014 registration form here and mail to 2014 Walk for Charity, 101 Dunkel St, Ste 111, Fairbanks, AK 99701.
Bib Pickup and Onsite Registration will be May 5 from noon – 7 pm at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center.
Late registration will be May 6-8 at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center from 9a -4p and in the Immaculate Conception Church parking lot from 4-6p the day of the walk.
For more information on the Charity Walk, please contact Charity Gadapee at cgadapee@explorefairbanks.com
You are cordially invited to consider joining the walk, and bringing your friends along, in order to benefit Joel's Place.
May 17th we will be stationed at Barnes and Noble Booksellers here in Fairbanks. There will be a book table where I will be selling and signing copies of my new book as well as raising money for Joel's Place. We will have vouchers available that, when presented to the cashier will allocate a percentage of the purchase to Joel's Place. We will be there all day so feel free to stop by, find some great reading material and help support a great cause.
Bone Builder's Backpacks
Every summer we team with the Food Bank, FRA, several other agencies and dozens of volunteers in order to provide over 200 weekly food boxes for hungry kids in Fairbanks. Every Wednesday over the summer they will be able to come to one of our distribution centers and pick up a free bag of healthy food to supplement their diet over the week. If you are interested in helping we can always use donations of shelf-stable, nonperishable proteins (like peanut butter, tuna or vienna sausage packs), fruit cups, granola bars and other healthy snacks. You can drop food off at Joel's Place or at the Food Bank; just make sure that you indicate it is for BBB.
Fred Meyer Rewards Program
On the right hand bar of this screen is a link to this program. It is a simple way to donate money to JP by simply buying your own groceries. Once you link your Fred Meyer's Rewards Card to Joel's Place, every purchase that you make in the store makes a donation to Joel's Place. It does not cost you any money or alter any other benefits of the rewards card, Fred Meyer is simply democratizing their required charitable giving. We currently have 30 people who have linked their cards to our cause and that netted a $700 donation over the first quarter of the year. It is quick. It is easy. And if enough of us sign up, it could have a significant impact on our budget.
Thank you everyone for all the ways that you have helped us so far this year. Please consider joining us in making this summer a special one for our kids.
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