Our 2013 Fundraising Goal

A big thank you to everyone who voted to determine or 2013 Fundraising Goal!!

With six votes, the winning option was $22,000.  Given our families philanthropic track record, while this goal won't be easy, it will no doubt inspire us to continue to support our community in permanent way.

You'll see a new tracking bar on the right hand side of the blog, keeping you up to date on our overall process, as well as process for this year.

So, are you ready?  We have nine months to raise $3,606.08.

Our Next Goal

Wow!

Can you believe it?

In three short years, our family has donated over $18,000.  What an amazing accomplishment.  This is money that will stay in the community and work for us, for...well, for ever.

I feel so absolutely blessed to be a part of a family that is in the position to help others so significantly as ours is.

As we have so successfully met our first goal of raising $10,000 - we are now in a position to be able to advise the GDCF on grants - so exciting!  Mom is going to write a post about that in a few weeks - but for now, we have the opportunity to decided how we want to grow our fund into the future.

In 2013 - do we want to grow to $20,000?  $25,000?  What can we achieve if we continue to work together?

We have set up a poll on the right hand side of the blog - check it out, and make sure you get your vote in.

Love you all,
Jessie

Ride on.

Dear Family,

The way we work together to create something bigger than all of us, honouring the legacy's of our grandparents and great grandparents, has been a great source of pride and comfort to me this last year.

Today I want to tell you that the shares that Nelson, Jessie and I donated to the GDCF as part of Pat's legacy to this community were sold for $5,811.50.

Pat's donation brings the total in our Family Fund to $18,383.92.