Community Fundraiser Brag

About a month ago there was a little boy in our town that found out he was terminally ill. The grandfather is well known in the community and is on the volunteer fire department with my hubby.
We wanted to help out, as a community. WE started fundraising, asking for silent auction donations, beer bottles, yard sale stuff, anything that we could figure we would make money on to help them out. We posted about the day on Facebook and even here on SC, and in the papers.
Well things started coming together and we held the event this past Sunday, and it was AMAZING!!! As a community we all worked hard together, and the support we got was out of this world. I even had one very wonderful SC'er ;)(who wants to not be revealed) who read about this come forward and volunteer for the day plus brought a $1,000 donation from work. We ended up raising much much more than we ever expected, and all the childrens activities were free, folks got great deals at the yard sale and auction, (even picked up a couple good deals myself), it was just awesome!
My brag is about what a few folks can do when they put there mind to it, and what a great little town I live in can achieve when a member of our community needs the help. Thanks to my posse of gals who listened to me ramble while organizing the whole event, you were a great soundboard for me.:flowers:

Bless you and all of the helping committee. What a wonderful thing to do for the family of the little boy. I wish him well.

WOW what a heartwarming story:) you did a terrific job

It was alot of us that put hardwork into the day, but it was for something that touched us all so very much. My 5 and 7 year old even had there own lemonade stand there and donated all the money they raised, $52+. They were so cute hollereing to get people to have a drink.

you are amazing! :)

KUDO'S Amazing brag !!!

such a touching brag -way to go girl

That is so very nice to hear. These are the kind of brags that really make me smile!!

Love this brag! this stuff makes me tear up.....it is so true how people come together when faced with some kind of adversity...it makes you forget about all the other crap going on in the world. Thanks for sharing it!