Thursday, July 14, 2011

"We're famous!"

I've already told you about the lemonade stand that the girls decided to do to raise money for the Susan G. Komen foundation, right?  Well, my mom was so touched by their efforts, that she matched their earnings!  When I went online to donate the $47 ($22 from the lemonade stand + $25 from Grandma Mary) I accidently clicked on the wrong button and the donation did not appear on my personal fundraising page.  I was a little sad because I wanted the girls to see their efforts on the scroll of donations on my fundraising page.  So, I decided to email the foundation and ask if my donation could somehow be transferred to show up on my personal page.  I explained that my girls had conducted a lemonade stand to fundraise and I wanted them to see their "name" on the scroll.  To my surprise, a nice lady at the foundation helped me out and transferred the money to my personal page.  She even called me on the phone to find out what name I wanted to show up on the scroll.  I decided that it should read, "Gaschler Girls Lemonade Stand".  I was so happy with the help and service that this lady provided to me, that I sent her an email thanking her and I attached a copy of a picture of the girls running their lemonade stand.  She immediately emailed me back and told me that she thought the picture was awesome and that she was going to forward it to their "communications" person.  Shortly after that, the "communications" person sent me an email and asked for my permission to use the picture in her email to all of this year's race participants (I'm guessing around 30,000+ people!) to hopefully inspire them to fundraise.  Of course I gave my permission and today I received the email that went out to everyone.  There was a whole section on fundraising and how to fundraise.  Here is a snippet of that email:  (you may need to click on it to enlarge it to read the text)
I think this is TOTALLY AWESOME.  Have I mentioned that I'm a proud mama?  When I told Macey the story behind this email she shouted, "We're famous!".

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