Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20091021 Wednesday October 21, 2009

Shop for a Cause

I spent last Saturday morning sitting at a table in the Valley Fair Macy's shoe department distributing discount tickets in exchange for $5 donations to Santa Maria Urban Ministry (SMUM). My husband John Plocher and I are on the SMUM Board of Directors. We also volunteer in SMUM's after-school homework and computer lab program for grade school kids.

Edy Unthank (SMUM's grant writer, also on the Board) had arranged for SMUM to be one of Macy's "Shop for a Cause" program charities. Macy's contacted the organizations which sold the most tickets and offered us each a table next to one of their entry doors so that we could sell even more. I put my orange and yellow Mexican blanket on the table, set out a big bowl of candy and SMUM brochures, set up my laptop to loop John's SMUM video, and asked every shopper I could to accept a 25% discount ticket in exchange for a $5 charity donation. In four hours, I collected 68 donations! Edy took the afternoon shift and collected 40 more for a total of $540 (see photo below). We snooped one of the other charity tables last Saturday and were told they had only sold $135 worth of tickets all day - so SMUM did very well. Including the tickets we sold in advance, SMUM raised over $1000 from this program.

Thanks, Macy's!

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Posted at 03:47PM Oct 21, 2009 by katysblog in Church  |  Comments[0]

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