March 2008

Huge Garage Sale

Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/30/2008 - 2:54am

As we mentioned in the last post, as part of our fund-raising efforts we're going to be having a monstrous sale on April 11 & 12, 8am - 3pm. Really, we know it's going to be huge, because we've already got approximately three and a half tons of stuff you didn't want your precious belongings that you have donated to the cause.

If you are in Bloomington, there are a couple of things you can do to help us with this.

Fundraising (ie. Money, Money, Money)

Submitted by admin on Sun, 03/30/2008 - 2:40am
As you can see from the thermometer on the right, we currently have a goal of raising $20,000 for the adoption process. This is a minimum estimate of the cost according to our agency, AWAA. You can find a detailed breakdown of this estimate here. There are a number of things that could cause our goal to rise in the coming months, including being forced to spend more than the estimated minimum amounts as we continue through the process--something that is a definite possibility.

Strangest Donation Award!

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 5:38pm

Well, we haven't really done much fundraising yet, but we're already awarding our strangest donation award to the person who gave us old gold teeth and an old wedding ring! Hey whatever it takes, right? If anyone wants to try to top that donation for weirdest, wackiest, go for it. We'll at least award a runner-up. In the meantime, does anyone know where I can get cash for gold?

Spinning wheels

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 3:00am

The last couple of weeks we haven't made much visible progress in adoption. As soon as we think we're going to do something to move forward, we find out we have to redo a document or a notarized signature, or nail down details of fundraising.