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8/18/2015 0 Comments Special Announcement! SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
In celebration of our Facebook page receiving 1000 LIKES, an anonymous donor has pledged to match all donations through this Friday, August 21st (up to $600.00!). If you want to help more special kids like Jason, please consider contributing at our Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Community Fundraiser page! Please help us reach our goal of $5000.00! We’d also like to shout out our wonderful newest donors: Debbie A., Arturo H., Brett H., Steph T., Michael T., Marjorie N., and the terrific anonymous donations that also keep coming in. Thanks guys!
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8/11/2015 0 Comments Up To Date Here’s what’s new at Howdy, Neighbors:
Fundraising: Due to The Car Rally, we’ve nearly doubled our recent donations and now stand at nearly half our goal of $5,000 for the CP program. Besides the tremendous collective gift from the 1310 Car Club and our local neighborhood, we’ve also recently received generous gifts from William F., Josh Y., Uday S., and Laurie L. You all rock! Car Rally: We can’t express enough words to show our gratitude to an entire world that came together for a truly special experience. Thank you SO much! We are now at well over 1.3 million views of the Car Rally. The numbers are staggering: 3.2 million people reached, almost 30,000 shares, over a thousand comments from many, many countries. Best of all, there have been several offers of support to help host more events, even across the country! We can’t believe all the attention, and the possibilities of expanding this to reach more kids with disabilities are very exciting. Virtually all the comments have been positive. Here are a few: “I’ve been reading through all the comments, and for the vast majority of them I can’t help but think that this….this is how it should be. No hatred or venom or you vs. me, he vs. she. Just compassion and caring for a young man and his family, and for those of us that were fortunate enough to participate in this amazing experience.“ “You guys made this kids day, if not his year! Good on you and this is something the world needs to look at! Spread this! Make it viral! Get people involved! Make these kids happy! Make your self happy! Everyone benefits here!“ “If I had such a car I would def do the same… only a few minutes out of your day to make someone else’s whole day.“ “Sorry I couldn’t make it from Alaska.“ “For all that participated, thank you for all of the joy you shared with this young man! And a huge thank you to Celebrating Perseverance for sharing this with the rest of us!” Awareness: We are now at 994 likes on the Facebook page–who will be #1,000? Jason: Last week, J spent time horseback riding at the Sundance Trail Ranch! More about this coming soon. Training: Pete’s 100 miles for CP is coming up in only one month! He has one difficult training session this weekend, then it’s all downhill from there. Let’s hope he’s ready… First, watch the video–everyone else has! Jason LOVES to sit at busy streets and say hello to cars. Wherever we’ve lived, Jason’s had a special place to sit, and he is quickly known as the “mayor” of his spot. People wave, honk, stop and chat, and even have been know to bring him presents!
A few weeks ago while sitting out, a special man named Jack stopped by. Jack is friends with a local car club called 1310, and he offered to organize a special drive by of the club’s special cars, just for Jason. On Saturday, we didn’t quite know what to expect. We made some food, passed out some flyers in the neighborhood, and waited while Jack and co-organizer Dan got the cars together. Here’s what happened when they drove by:
Four days later, 600,000 people from every continent have watched the video, and 1.5 million have visited our Facebook page Words cannot describe it, but here are a few that come pretty close from co-organizer Dan Foltz on his blog page. Check out the Facebook page for hundreds of comments, too many for us to even read–though we are trying! More soon! |
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