My Amazon.com donation page
Thanks for everyone for encouraging me to make a donation possible.
The trip to send 18 great Baltimore city kids on a peer-leadership course through Outward Bound costs $1300. The kids have kicked in $650 - half of it - and I said I'd work on funding the other half. I thought I had it secured, but it has fallen through, and now I'm left with this last desperate attempt. If the money is not raised, then I will end up paying for the trip myself, or, at the very least, begging Outward Bound to hold over the bill for a year to see if there's any money in the budget to do it next year. Neither option is desirable.
If you don't know what Outward Bound is, it's a great organization that sends kids out in the wilderness to hike and camp. It's all about hands-on education, and they stress self-reliance, compassion, responsibility, and teamwork. At our school, I try to target at-risk kids who could really use a change of perspective in their lives, and I have seen amazing results. "Bobby" is one of the prime examples of a success story, but the last kid who won the University of Maryland full ride scholarship was also an Outward Bound kid in the 9th grade.
Thanks so much.
12 comments:
I am glad you put the donation button up. I made my donation and hope others will help.
I admire what you are doing and feel good that I could help out.
I made my donation through Amazon (PayPal apparently had some server downtime or something). I'm glad you decided to put up the donation link. Thank you for allowing us to help you help them.
Amazon and Paypal were both down. Rest assured I want to donate enough money for at least one / two kids. Let me know how. I;ll try the links later.
Linda, from what I gather, with the money the kids raised and what Epiph's looking to get together, it's running about $36 per child.
Epiph - Apparently my first Amazon donation didn't go through. The second one should've.
Thank you all. I'm overwhelmed.
I don't know if I did Paypal correctly, because it still seems to be down.
i'm just freaked out because the ad knew my name.
I donated too. Make sure to post again in a few days if you don't have the total amount yet -- Amazon apparently has a $50 limit, and I was planning on giving a bit more than that, so I'll donate again if it turns out ya need it. At first glance though, it looks like enough other people are donating that it will be fine. But like I said, do let us know...
-Lindsay
I've donated what I can -- Thanks for making it possible for us to pitch in.
Ditto what Lindsay said. I found the $50 Amazon limit somewhat, well, *limiting*.
Thanks for letting us help.
It wasn't much, but I gave what I could. I think this was an excellent idea.
Keep people posted, we'll make sure they can go on that trip! Thanks for the blog. Its actually the _only_ one I read!
Thanks for putting the link up -- I've donated what I can. Please post an update, so we know how this is working out for you.
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