Planning for 2007 Veterans Day Fundraiser

NOTE: Contest dates published below have been corrected.

We are in the early planning stages of our 2007 Veterans Day Fundraiser. Begun in 2005, this has become a yearly event in support of Soldiers' Angels Project Valour-IT. Here are the outlines for this year:

Duration: Monday, October 28 29 through Veterans’ Day, November 13 11.

Method: Bloggers team up by service branch, have friendly competition to reach the fundraising goal first, and spread the word offline through community contacts, etc.

Goal: $240,000 (total of $5,000 more than last year's event)

Planning sites: Right here, and on the new bulletin board (thanks, Xformed!)

How you can help:

Design a Flier (two SA logo and the smiling laptop on the right, text supplied; email me)

Find items to auction—check with authors, stars, etc., or offer your own service or product. Items can be mil-related or of general interest.

Plan people/businesses/organizations to contact. For example: community clubs, professional organizations, veterans' groups, pro-military businesses, churches, etc.

Check for employer matching donations (or prep for a corporate donation during the fundraiser)

Give a heads up to your press/political connections by offering links to Valour-IT sites and telling them about Valour-IT's history

Share your ideas on the bulletin board, or in comments below

IMPORTANT NOTE: Valour-IT is an IRS-certified non-profit (donations are tax-deductible) and is non-political. Regardless of ideas about how/why war is being waged, the fact is that people are wounded and need our help. Valour-IT is about supplying that help, not about endorsing or opposing the reasons why it's needed.

[cross-posted at Castle Argghhh!, The Flight Deck and Fuzzilicious Thinking]