[NorthernStar]

More News ....

I have just received an email from Val, who says:

Hi Cathy!

That's wonderful your team is sponsoring a girl!
1) Please send to gfc@grobanitesforcharity.org a list of the names and the amounts they person is each paying.
2) Whoever is paying by credit card should fill out and submit the form for FREETOWN with their credit card information and the amount they are paying (for team member's they can just say "Cathy's group").
3) Just let us know who needs to pay by paypal and we can send them an invoice.

Thanks!

Val
p.s. to Meg, I'll take one of the girls down now since there are only a few left!!


So I think we should do the following:

- I will send the email to gfc@grobanitesforcharity with a list of contributors and the amounts they are paying

- Per your comments to me, this list will look like this:

- Cathy (NorthernStar) - $20
- Cathy (Grannybird) - $20
- Cathy (Grannybird)'s daughter Lisa - $20 (she would like a separate tax receipt)
- Krisz (Noondarkly) (on behalf of herself & the Hungarian Grobies) - $60 (via PayPal)
- Susan (Feb27Song) - $20
- Lory (Lilflo) (on behalf of herself, her sister & friend) - $60

I will also ask GFC to issue a PayPal invoice to Krisz.

Cathy, Susan & Lory ... each of you (and I) should now go to the Freetown Sponsorship form and complete its details for our credit card payments. Remember to type "Cathy's Group" into the space where the list of team members is requested. I put the number of team members as "6" and they want your dollar amount to be entered as a number only (no $ or .00 to be included). FYI, the system did not divide $200 by 6, so there were no problems with entering "20" as my dollar amount.

As you can see from Val's comment at the end of the email, she has reserved one of the last few girls for our group.

Hugs to you all - talk to you soon!

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email or PM.

Ciao -
Cathy

[sami]

Thanks for sheparding that one through, Cathy. Anyone else who has a question or problem, we can help you with it. It is most gratifying to see how wonderfully we can all work together on this amazing project.

[Noondarkly]

Cathy, I sent you a PM but ignore that please, I came here and read your original message and everything is clear now.

You are the best to organize this and the GFC is the best to offer all kinds of options for people to help and Grobies are the best to be so generous and, well, Josh is the best- because we said so!!!!!! LOL!

Krisz

[NorthernStar]

Cathy, Krisz, Lory & Susan (& assorted friends and relations - all members of our Team) -

Just wanted to say it out loud ... thanks so much for your participation in the sponsorship of our Freetown girl.

I am thrilled that we have been able to bring people together from 3 countries (USA, Canada & Hungary) and make a real difference to someone's life in South Africa.

Now that's what I call TEAMWORK! This is what it's all about.

Way to go, gals!

And warm thanks too to Val, Sami & everyone at GFC / GFA for making this possible. This fundraiser rocks!

Hugs -
Cathy

[feb27song]

NorthernStar, on 22 February 2010 - 03:22 PM, said:

Cathy, Krisz, Lory & Susan (& assorted friends and relations - all members of our Team) -

Just wanted to say it out loud ... thanks so much for your participation in the sponsorship of our Freetown girl.

I am thrilled that we have been able to bring people together from 3 countries (USA, Canada & Hungary) and make a real difference to someone's life in South Africa.

Now that's what I call TEAMWORK! This is what it's all about.

Way to go, gals!

And warm thanks too to Val, Sami & everyone at GFC / GFA for making this possible. This fundraiser rocks!

Hugs -
Cathy

Hi Cathy, I am just now catching up! I went to the Group Sponsorship Form link that you provided and
made my credit card payment for "Cathy's Group" I am so happy to have had the opportunity to be a
part of this team. I love what you said:

"I am thrilled that we have been able to bring people together from 3 countries (USA, Canada & Hungary) and make a real difference to someone's life in South Africa.

Now that's what I call TEAMWORK! This is what it's all about."

I certainly agree!!.. Thank-you, thank-you for your leadership of our team.

Susan

[NorthernStar]

feb27song, on 22 February 2010 - 05:29 PM, said:

Hi Cathy, I am just now catching up! I went to the Group Sponsorship Form link that you provided and
made my credit card payment for "Cathy's Group" I am so happy to have had the opportunity to be a
part of this team. I love what you said:

"I am thrilled that we have been able to bring people together from 3 countries (USA, Canada & Hungary) and make a real difference to someone's life in South Africa.

Now that's what I call TEAMWORK! This is what it's all about."

I certainly agree!!.. Thank-you, thank-you for your leadership of our team.

Susan

Hi Susan -

Thanks so much for your kind words - you're very welcome.

I am constantly amazed by the power and combined spirit of this community - and everyone in our team has re-affirmed it once again. Well done ladies .... consider yourselves warmly hugged.

And Susan ... hope you have a fabulous birthday this weekend!

Ciao -
Cathy

[Grannybird]

Hi Cathy-----My daughter and I both submitted our forms. It went smoothly. You did great job co-ordinating our group. I appreciate all the help you gave me.
Cathy

[NorthernStar]

Grannybird, on 22 February 2010 - 11:01 PM, said:

Hi Cathy-----My daughter and I both submitted our forms. It went smoothly. You did great job co-ordinating our group. I appreciate all the help you gave me.
Cathy

Hi Cathy -

You are very welcome - thanks so much for being a member of our team!

Happy to hear that all went smoothly with your payments.

Hugs -
Cathy (too!)

[NorthernStar]

NorthernStar, on 22 February 2010 - 03:22 PM, said:

Cathy, Krisz, Lory & Susan (& assorted friends and relations - all members of our Team) -

Just wanted to say it out loud ... thanks so much for your participation in the sponsorship of our Freetown girl.

I am thrilled that we have been able to bring people together from 3 countries (USA, Canada & Hungary) and make a real difference to someone's life in South Africa.

Now that's what I call TEAMWORK! This is what it's all about.

Way to go, gals!

And warm thanks too to Val, Sami & everyone at GFC / GFA for making this possible. This fundraiser rocks!

Hugs -
Cathy

Greetings all ....

I owe Lory an apology - I just found out that she is from New Zealand!

So that means that the above comment SHOULD be:

I am thrilled that we have been able to bring people together from 4 countries (USA, Canada, New Zealand & Hungary) and make a real difference to someone's life in South Africa.

Wow .... it really is a small world, isn't it!

Have a great day everyone!

Ciao -
Cathy

[Noondarkly]

Looking forward to the special day...

I am a greedy person and I would like to know if all of us sponsoring a girl can get news from/about her...? My problem with donating to charities sometimes is that I don't know where my money's going... seeing an immediate effect means so much, right? Thinking of the fact that a human being, a certain and actual human being will benefit from my small donation just makes all the difference.
It's okay if I don't find out about her, of course... but it would be lovely!!!!!

Krisz

[joella]

OMJ! How wonderful it is that more girls have been added beacause nearly all of them were sponsored! That is just incredible!!! Great work Grobies!!!

Let's make sure all of the girls are sponsored!!! Let's make sure none of the girls fall through the cracks! After all...we're the falling through the cracks gang...right!?!?!?!

And a special Thanks to Cathy for her awesome work in coordinating the sponsorship of her group! Incredible job Cathy!!! You ROCK my socks!

With team work we can do ANYTHING!!!!

Goooooooooo Grobies!

[NorthernStar]

joella, on 23 February 2010 - 04:55 PM, said:

You ROCK my socks!

With team work we can do ANYTHING!!!!

Joella - you rock my socks too - thanks!

And thanks again to everybody on our team - this was a lot of fun and I'm so tickled that we were able to do it - well done!

What a wonderful way to send our birthday wishes to Josh.

Krisz ... I seem to remember seeing somewhere (perhaps over at FOJG?) that Val & Co. at GFC said they would be able to provide us with a little bit of information about the Freetown girl that we have sponsored.

I'll see if I can find that source and its details ... and if I do, I will share them.

Ciao -
Cathy

[feb27song]

Noondarkly, on 23 February 2010 - 03:36 PM, said:

Looking forward to the special day...

I am a greedy person and I would like to know if all of us sponsoring a girl can get news from/about her...? My problem with donating to charities sometimes is that I don't know where my money's going... seeing an immediate effect means so much, right? Thinking of the fact that a human being, a certain and actual human being will benefit from my small donation just makes all the difference.
It's okay if I don't find out about her, of course... but it would be lovely!!!!!

Krisz

Krisz,
This is what Kim, one of the GFA Co-chairs wrote on the FOJG board:

"Lily, I do have the list of names of the 25 girls in Freetown, but in their situation, we will just be able to send progress reports about the school and not individual progress of each girl. If you'd love to have a name with your sponsorship, I can certainly get that for you."

I hope that we can get a name with our group sponsorship and that we are able to get the progress reports.
That would be great!

Susan

[NorthernStar]

feb27song, on 24 February 2010 - 09:03 AM, said:

Krisz,
This is what Kim, one of the GFA Co-chairs wrote on the FOJG board:

"Lily, I do have the list of names of the 25 girls in Freetown, but in their situation, we will just be able to send progress reports about the school and not individual progress of each girl. If you'd love to have a name with your sponsorship, I can certainly get that for you."

I hope that we can get a name with our group sponsorship and that we are able to get the progress reports.
That would be great!

Susan

Susan - thanks so much for finding that info and posting it. I'll send a message to Kim / GFA and ask if we could have a girl's name to associate with our sponsorship - great idea!

And ... I must correct myself here. While there is also a city in South Africa named Freetown, our girl is in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Sorry about that ... brain cramp!

Talk to you later -
Cathy

[NorthernStar]

Hi Everyone -

I have received a list of names from Kim for the Freetown Girls.

Check your PM "inbox" and let me know how you would like to proceed.

More hugs -
Cathy

[NorthernStar]

3:40 pm EST on Friday, February 26th:

Woo Hoo ... just noticed that ALL of the Freetown and Waterloo girls have been sponsored over at the GFC Auction site - what WONDERFUL news!

Way to go everyone - this calls for a (Birthday) celebration!

Have a great weekend everyone -
Cathy

[Noondarkly]

Congrats Grobies and wonderful news for the Freetown girls. I don't mind not getting a detailed report, I'm just happy to know money was spent on a good cause!

Josh and Angélique rock.

Krisz

[Grannybird]

Saw this on Twitter today from Deepak Chopra and thought about the girls we sponsored.


DeepakChopra On International Womens Day today , remember that the fastest way to transform the world is the empowerment of women

Cathy

[sybil11159]

Do we get a listing of the sponsorships here or is it considered too personal???

[sami]

sybil11159, on 08 March 2010 - 05:45 PM, said:

Do we get a listing of the sponsorships here or is it considered too personal???

GFC/GFA cannot provide a list because there may be some who prefer not to have their information publicized, but you are welcome to ask everyone who has sponsored a girl to add their name to a list that you can start, and maybe you'll get a good response. Again, the GFA team thanks you all for your cooperation in creating teams and your assistance in finding sponsors for all 103 girls.