2014 Donation Drive!

[Just Evan]

Howdy folks! As per HST Kevin's announcement last game, ECC will be running a charity donation drive for Hopelink again this year.

Here's what Hopelink has indicated they are looking for this year:

• Cereal (boxed rather than oatmeal would be ideal)
• Dried beans
• Rice
• Diapers sizes 4,5,6
• Boxed Pasta (mac n cheese, dried mixes, etc)
• Canned Fruit

PLEASE DO NOT DONATE RAMEN

Hopelink is not looking for clothing donations at this time and is focused on non-perishable foods to help keep families fed through the winter season.

Bring any of the above items to game with a receipt. Staff will be providing 1xp per dollar spent up to 25xp per player. At the end of the drive, staff will total up the dollars spent on donations and provide all participating players with 5% of that total. This means that even if you give just a couple of items, you can earn some extra XP at the end of the month.

Staff will be collecting donations near the paper table where receipts can be verified and collected. Sean Yeager and myself will be driving donations to the Hopelink in Redmond each week.

Please post any questions in this thread and we'll try to jump on them right away.

Thank you very much for reading and for your donations!

Evan

[BLewis]

Just because I'm curious (and I'm sure others are as well) has there been any discussion on other spheres mirroring donation XP? We've got at least 2 HST's as players in Vampire, and I believe the other two staffs look through the boards to some degree or another, as well.

[Just Evan]

I will defer to our ST staff on this as I have no idea. I'm just happy to lug donations.

[Katie Hester]

When does the drive end?

[Just Evan]

Staff has said the drive goes through the last game in February (which would be the 22nd)

[NOMNOMNOM]

Will we be getting a running total for this, or do folks not have time?

[Wolf]

Mage will be matching the 1st 25 xp.

[Sethron]

Announced at Sabbat is that Sabbat will be matching the fundraiser completely.

[Just Evan]

Jan 20, 2014 13:15:36 GMT -8 NOMNOMNOM said:

Will we be getting a running total for this, or do folks not have time?

Hopelink was closed over the holiday so I did the drop today. My first drop was 74 lbs of food and diapers. Sean had a fairly large load as well but I'll let him confirm numbers.

It's an awesome start, as awkward as it was trying to describe our community to a bunch of 50-somethings with no LARP/RPG experience. We settled on ECC being an Improve Acting Troupe, a concept they groked.

[Ascanio Giovanni]

Jan 20, 2014 20:13:12 GMT -8 Sethron said:

Announced at Sabbat is that Sabbat will be matching the fundraiser completely.

That is confirmed. Sabbat will match this donation wholesale.

[NOMNOMNOM]

Thanks, Evan! That really is an encouraging start to all this. Here's hoping it keeps coming in.

[Sarah]

Can this be shared or moved to the all OOC boards since this is an ECC wide drive? Also Werewolf will be matching the Vampire xps.

[Victor Vaughn]

Just a reminder: there are two more game sessions before the end of this drive. Any donations you are able to make will go to a great cause, and the incentive of XP is nice as well.

[NOMNOMNOM]

Any chance of getting a current total?

[Victor Vaughn]

Since the donations are being accepted and compiled by every sphere, we don't have a grand total at this time. Patience, grasshopper!

[Ikon]

When will we have a total on this?