February 2010
5 posts
WatchA video with some final thoughts. I recorded a bunch of videos and wrote a bunch but decided to just speak from my heart. Thanks everyone for your support!
Mission Summary
8 organizations donated to:
American Red Cross
Catholic Relief Services
Clinton Foundation
Direct Relief International
Doctors Without Borders
Entertainment Industry Foundation
Mercy Corps
One Days Wages
Although I recommended Doctors Without Borders, I didn’t want the organization I chose to prevent people from giving, so opened up donations to any organization. A significant...
Summary coming soon!
I’m working on my summary post with lots of numbers telling the story of my mission from start to finish.
I’ll share one fact: $12,032 was raised for Doctors Without Borders! Thank you all for supporting an organization that I believe in :)
In total, we raised more than $16,000 for Haiti! Thank you!
Please stay tuned for more,
Billy
Mission complete!
I’ll still be collecting donations if people want to donate on my behalf, however I will no longer be doing outreach for donations.
I hope to turn this mission into something longer term, but haven’t fleshed that out.
Please come back to the site later this week and I will post up the final numbers, as well as share info on any other projects I cook up.
Thank you all for making this...
January 2010
22 posts
“100 donors reached!!! One more day left :) Full wrap up tomorrow. Get your...”
– Billy Shih
$15,000 REACHED!! Need 6 more for 100 people!
Hi everyone,
We have surpassed $15,000 and are already almost to $16,000!! You all are so incredible! Not only that, but we are only 6 people away from 100 donors.
We’ve crushed every other goal, so please help me get 6 more new donors.
If we can say that we raised over $15,000 AND got 100 contributors, how awesome would that be? All within 16 days.
If you want to join, just donate at...
Mariners tickets price lowered - I need 19 people...
To encourage more people to donate, we’ve decided to change the structure of the Mariners package and lower the price:
Donate $100 minimum and get 4 tickets to any game (section 339)
This is $25 a ticket, pretty much face value. Can’t get much better than that. Get 3 friends and donate together to add 4 people to my mission!
Please tell everyone you know about this offer :)
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Quick update and photography session details!
Mariners tickets are still up for grabs! Get tickets and raise money for a good cause :)
We’re almost to $13,000!
Need a few more people to make it to 70 donations.
Huge thanks to Maxine for getting 5+ new donors through her photography session auction!
I’ll be going to Gas Works Park on Sunday, February 7 @ 3:30PM to do a photography workshop with an existing donor. She said...
A letter to you all
Hi everyone, I just wanted to shoot you all a message since there are only 3 days left until this is all over. Since this project started on the 15th, my days have been busy, amazing, emotional and very rewarding. This project initially had the small goals of doing something good for Haiti and making my birthday something meaningful to people other than myself. At this point, I can see that...
Mariners tickets (+ extras) up for grabs
The view from Section 339
To encourage donations, Ryan Chuang and Paul Chou have generously donated 8 Mariners tickets (worth $20-25 a piece) and Mariners memorabilia as incentives to donate. Big, big thanks to both of them for this amazing gift.
So here’s the deal, donate $250 or more and you get:
Four tickets to any game of your choice (section 339)
Two 2010 Mariners promotional...
3 quick tips to increase your contribution
Want to make the most out of your giving? Consider the below!
You can write off your donations for the 2009 year! Consider donating more because of your tax savings or just enjoy a little extra $ :) Thanks Connie Wang!
Deal News is matching up to $50,000 to the American Red Cross. If you want to donate to them instead of DWB, that’s fine. Go ahead and donate and let me know. Thanks...
My inbox!
This is just a small snippet of how much email I’ve gotten over the past 11 days! Keep sending your requests, donations and questions to me :) I’m still a long ways from 100 for Haiti, keep telling your friends and family and if you haven’t donated yet, please don’t be shy. A small donation goes a long way to meeting my goal.
Thank you!
-Billy
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Helping you and helping Haiti
I think one of the best parts of this project is that I get to help others and at the same time raise money for the people of Haiti. Yesterday, I met the wonderful owner of Seagrass Designs, a jewelry maker who sells her items to stores and online.
For her donation, she asked for some photography tips so that she could better display her jewelry online.
She found out about my mission through my...
New Goal: $15,000 and 100 people
You all are simply amazing. $10,000 is an amazing amount to have raised and donations are still coming in. Because of that, I am raising the bar again.
As mentioned recently, I want 100 people to be a part of this. I have been lucky to have received many large contributions but I’d like to reach everyone that can’t donate large amounts as well.
In addition, I’d like to set a...
$10,000 GOAL REACHED!
A generous donor has offered to donate the difference needed to get me to $10,000!
As you can see, there are no bullets left to mark my goals, but this doesn’t mean I am stopping. I will continue to collect donations and offer my time and energy to each person that contributes before the end of the month.
In addition to the great news above, I have received information of even more...
An update and some quick numbers
You all are making this too easy for me. I have raised over $1000 today thanks to my amazing friends, friends of friends, their friends, etc. (If I say thanks anymore, you all might get sick of me at this rate.)
Some numbers:
I started with a goal of $1,000. It is now TEN times that amount.
Including my contributions, I’ve raised an average of $1038.67 each day (more than my...
Giving more
While going to lunch I ran into people canvassing for Doctors Without Borders, the first time I’ve ever seen them in Seattle. I talked them up and they said that DWB just started canvassing in Seattle for the first time and that it has been a huge success so far. Because I’m disappointed I can’t afford to keep matching and you all have given me so much support, I decided to...
Help me reach $5,000 to help Haiti and Doctors...
This mission hasn’t changed since day one. You donate and I’ll do something for you. Anything.
My focus is changing though, I want more people outside of my network to be a part of my mission. You don’t have to be my friend in order to make a difference in this project.
If you don’t know me and feel awkward about donating, please don’t let that keep you from...
Goals: $1,000(11:00AM), $2,500(10:00PM),...
In less than 24 hours, I have raised over $2,500! There’s no way I can express my gratitude to everyone that has participated so far.
The next option on the box is $5,000, so that’s my new goal. This will be tough, but I got a lot of time left to double my previous goal. More to come… please read the post below!
Raising $1000 was too easy, new goal in sight!
This has far exceeded my expectations. Not only have my friends and family given me a ton of emotional support, I have already doubled my goal of $1,000 in less than 24 hours.
My new goal is $2,500 $5,000. Unfortunately, I thought I’d beat it before 24 hours but donations have slowed. If you want to donate but something is holding you back, let me know what it is and I will solve it!
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People of earth:
For the past 10 years, I’ve downplayed my birthday, but I want to make this year different. This year I am asking for your support to do some good and make a much bigger impact than I could by myself.
Haiti is in dire straits right now. After attempting to recover from 4 hurricane strikes, they have been hit by the strongest earthquake they’ve had in 200 years. It’s obvious they need...