Raffle For Joplin Tornado Recovery

[timsfly]

Well I'm working on a few things, maybe we can get this going by next week

[KATroutman13]

Well I'm working on a few things, maybe we can get this going by next week

You can count me in for a few tickets as well.

[mosouthpaw]

im in on a raffle, i would suggest that the money go to the rebuilding effort now. The Local UNited way is a good start if you ask me.

[dscott]

an eye opener.

As you & I continue to open our deep pockets for this disaster, that crisis, or the next whatever catastrophe, please keep these facts in mind:

The American Red Cross:

President and CEO - Marsha J. Evans salary for the year 2010 was $651,957 plus all personal, medical, & pension expenses.

Less than 10 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.

The United Way:

President - Brian Gallagher receives a $375,000 base salary, along with numerous personal & family expense benefits.

Less than 12 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.

UNICEF:

CEO - Caryl M. Stern receives $1.2 Million per year (100k per month) plus all living & housing expenses,

including a ROLLS ROYCE.

Less than 15 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.

The Salvation Army:

Commissioner - Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization.

96 cents of all donated dollars go to the cause

[Kevin B.]

an eye opener.

As you & I continue to open our deep pockets for this disaster, that crisis, or the next whatever catastrophe, please keep these facts in mind:

The American Red Cross:

President and CEO - Marsha J. Evans salary for the year 2010 was $651,957 plus all personal, medical, & pension expenses.

Less than 10 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.

I'm not arguing for or against any specific charity, but according to this ==> About.com Urban Legends on Charities Salaries these numbers are not accurate. Also, according to the Better Business Bureau, Red Cross used 90% of its funds towards its programs vs. 6% administrative and 4% fundraising expenses in 2008 (BBB.org American Red Cross). CharityNavigator.org says Red Cross puts 92.1% of its funds towards programs , United Way of Kansas City 91.5% of funds towards programs, United Way of St. Louis 90.5% of funds towards programs.

Again, I'm not saying these are the best options for charities in general or for Joplin tornado relief, just that I'm pretty skeptical that American Red Cross, United Way, and UNICEF are as bad as indicated above.

[timsfly]

Ok I have the rod now, it is a 7'9" 2pc Quad 4/5 wt Sweetgrass bamboo fly rod, this was given to me to raffle off for the

recovery efforts continuing in Joplin Missouri, 5$ per chance, 20$ gets you 5 chances, all precedes will go to

Convoy of Hope, I hope this rod will raise some money for the people in Joplin. You can send checks:

Tim's Fly Shop

23387 st. Why 112

Cassville, MO

65625

Or you can paypal me at timsfly@hotmail.com use the gift button when sending money on paypal, this will bypass the fees paypal charges

Or you can call the shop 417-847-4956, I'll pay the credit card fees, the entire 5$ you spend on a chance will go towards the entire donations, I will

Take care of all fees on my end, it will not effect the total sent to convoy of hope, holler at me if there are any questions, or if I have left out any information

I will take care of any shipping charges involved in getting the rod to the winner.

I will donate money my self, but I'm not eliglble to win the rod

I'll put pics up of the rod in a couple of days, I am going to sell chances on the rod for about 6 weeks, I'll have some kid draw out the winner, I will take pics so

Everyone can see the process, the local paper will be on hand for the drawing.

Thanks everybody, give what you can.

If you want to thank the sweetgrass guys email them at www.booboys@3rivers.net

Tell Jerry, Glen, and David thanks.

[timsfly]

Hi, I live in S.W. Missouri, some of you know me, if you watch any news at all you will have seen how badly Joplin Missouri was

tore up by last weeks tornado, I have a rod company that is considering donating a rod for me to auction

off or raffle off to make some money for the joplin tornado relief fund, now here is my questions, what will

make the most money, auction or raffle, and whom should I give the money to, the red cross ?

the Convoy of Hope, they say each $ given is worth 7 and they have been a big help so far, or is there

another group I should look into, any advice will be read and appreciated, thank you. I can get about 7

fly shops involved in the raffle, maybe more, I thought maybe selling tickets for 5$ each for a month period ?

And then having some kid draw out a name or ticket ?

Ok I have the rod now, it is a 7'9" 2pc Quad 4/5 wt Sweetgrass bamboo fly rod, this was given to me to raffle off for the

recovery efforts continuing in Joplin Missouri, 5$ per chance, 20$ gets you 5 chances, all precedes will go to

Convoy of Hope, I hope this rod will raise some money for the people in Joplin. You can send checks:

Tim's Fly Shop

23387 st. Why 112

Cassville, MO

65625

Or you can paypal me at timsfly@hotmail.com use the gift button when sending money on paypal, this will bypass the fees paypal charges

Or you can call the shop 417-847-4956, I'll pay the credit card fees, the entire 5$ you spend on a chance will go towards the entire donations, I will

Take care of all fees on my end, it will not effect the total sent to convoy of hope, holler at me if there are any questions, or if I have left out any information

I will take care of any shipping charges involved in getting the rod to the winner.

I will donate money my self, but I'm not eliglble to win the rod

I'll put pics up of the rod in a couple of days, I am going to sell chances on the rod for about 6 weeks, I'll have some kid draw out the winner, I will take pics so

Everyone can see the process, the local paper will be on hand for the drawing.

Thanks everybody, give what you can.

If you want to thank the sweetgrass guys email them at www.booboys@3rivers.net

Tell Jerry, Glen, and David thanks.

Thank you for the donations/raffle chances on the rod, have had a good turn out so far, but, there is plenty of time for you to buy raffle tickets

[ness]

Done

[timsfly]

Done

Thank you, I've received several donations/raffle ticket purchases today, thanks to all of you, this thing is going well, I figured a web site this

strong with members as good as we have here in the ozarks and surrounding areas would donate freely , thank you again

[Gavin]

Thats a honey of a rod...but sure you put the raffle up on the classic fly rod forum...