Billy's Birthday Mission |
How was this different than other fundraisers? For everyone that donated, I offered to do 1 thing. Anything. I matched donations in sweat equity.
Status: Mission complete! $15,000 and 100 donor goals met. Thank you!!
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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 portion of donations, $4,429 (26.91%), went to other organizations! I’m happy my mission got to help many other valuable charities out there :)
Donation goals and dates reached:
- $1,000 - January 15 (day 0)
- $2,500 - January 15 (day 0)
- $5,000 - January 20 (day 5)
- $10,000 - January 22 (day 7)
- $15,000 - January 29 (day 14)
As you can see, there were many ups and downs. It was impossible for me to guess when I’d reach any given goal. I thought $10,000 was going to be the toughest since many large donations came in to get me to $5,000, so I didn’t think any more large donations would come in. Of course, I was wrong :)
Surprisingly, large donations did not really die off until the very end and even then, I still got many large amounts. Many of large spikes are due to the generosity of others, from people who offered their own gifts and services (Kevin, my sister, Maxine, Ryan and Paul) to people who helped galvanize many donations (Julie and Zach, CJ and Mr. Hou, Soo and numerous others).
Before 100 for Haiti goal (Jan 15-22): 51 donors - 6.38 donors per day
After goal announced: 61 donors - 6.78 donors per day
The majority of people donated on the first day, 29th and 30th. Those days totaled 45 donors or 40.18% of the total donors. Getting 100 donors was more difficult than reaching the monetary goals, but I’m happy that I did it. 51 donors got me to $10,000, meaning I was getting mostly large donations. The last $6,000 were contributed by 61 donors, pushing me over 100!
In summary:
- 17 days
- $16,461 donated
- 112 donors
Incredible.
I will end with a final thoughts post tomorrow or this weekend. Thank you all!
Much love,
Billy Shih
