Submitted by KOFI ODUM on 30 March, 2010 - 19:55
Dear Friends and Cherished Partners,
EBENEZER, hitherto the Lord has brought us! I am most grateful to the LORD GOD our Heavenly Father and to you for your continuous support you are giving to us in FHI Ministry.
I am very glad to inform you that FHI has been invited to join the “Globalgiving March Open Challenge” to enable us fundraise for our projects. It is indeed, a Challenge and/or a Competition, which needs an action based on you, to support us to win a place on the platform of Globalgiving in order to be connected to their potential donors for regular fundraising.
We need 50 unique donors to raise US$4,000 for FHI, between March 25 -- April 26, 2010 in order to secure a spot on Global Giving. That means, if you are one of the 50 unique donors, and I hope you will, you will donate a minimum of US$80 or if the donors are 400, each one of you will pay a minimum of only US$10. You can however, view our detailed project on http://www.globalgiving.org/5210 and select any project you can support individually or collectively after you click on the “show more” under the “How you can Help.”
In addition, the three projects that raise the most funds will also receive supplementary cash bonuses from GlobalGiving of $5000, $4000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. The project with the greatest number of unique donors will also be awarded a bonus of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000. Click http://www.globalgiving.org/5210 to see FHI Project
So, we are humbly urging you to tell your friends who are likeminded to help us not only to secure a spot on the Globalgiving Fundraising Platform after the Challenge, but also to receive the supplementary cash bonuses of $5,000 and an award of $3,000 from the Globalgiving together with the US$4,000 (you donated a minimum of $10 or $80) within this 1 month period.
Wouldn’t you be praising the Lord with FHI if it happened that we are the blessed one that received this total amount of US$12,000 within this 30 days? Then please pray with us and act now!
Please, let me quote from their website some pertinent questions that you may want to know. http://www.globalgiving.org/5210 and of course, this is the site you can see details of FHI project posting.
1 WHO ARE THE PARTICIPANTS?
Project Challenge participants are organizations registered as charitable and non profit organizations in the US (501(c)3 organizations) or internationally, working in local communities, who have expressed interest in posting their projects on GlobalGiving’s site. All Project Leaders must complete a rigorous Due Diligence process to qualify for the Project Challenge.
So, FHI has gone through the rigorous screening and have certified to them that we are equivalent to that of the organizations in the US (501c)3.
2 WHAT IS GLOBALGIVING?
GlobalGiving is an online marketplace for philanthropy that helps donors support causes they are passionate about. Through its public website, GlobalGiving connects donors to more than 500 community-based projects addressing themes ranging from education and the environment to health care and human rights, in over 60 countries. Over the past 5 years, more than 600 organizations have raised over $27 million using GlobalGiving.org
3 T E R M
The Challenge runs from March 25, 2010 (00:00 EST) to April 26 2010 (23:59 EST).
The projects that raise the most funds will also receive supplementary cash bonuses from GlobalGiving of $5000, $4000, $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. The project with the greatest number of unique donors will also be awarded a bonus of $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000. Please note that the $4000 and 50 donor threshold must be met in order to qualify for these awards.
Online donations will be accepted through April 26 2010 until 11:59 EST. Checks received by April 23 will be included in the Challenge and will count towards the number of unique donors for each project. Checks received after April 23 will be applied to the indicated project, but will not count towards the Challenge. Checks should be made payable to the GlobalGiving Foundation and should clearly indicate the project to which the funds should be applied. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept cash donations.
4 CAN DONORS GIVE BY CHECK?
We accept checks, in US dollars, drawn on banks in the US. All checks must be received by GlobalGiving by April 23, 2010. In addition, check donors must specify the name of the project on the check on the memo line in order for it to be properly attributed to your project. Checks received after April 23 will be applied to the indicated project, but will not count towards the threshold for qualification or the bounty awards
Checks should be made payable to the GlobalGiving Foundation and should clearly indicate the project to which the funds should be applied. Checks issued outside the US will not be accepted.
Mail checks to: GlobalGiving Foundation, 1023 15th Street NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20009, USA. . Click http://www.globalgiving.org/5210 to see details of FHI Project and kindly act now for us to win the Globalgiving Cash Awards.
Please since it has remained less than 30 days to bring the Challenge to a close (25 March – April 23, 2010) we would treasure it most if you would kindly respond and indicate your willingness to support us in order to grab this opportunity we have been invited to participate.
Thanking you in advance and praying that the Lord God Almighty will bless you in order to bless us.
Kofi Odum
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