A few weeks ago I wrote about a friend of mine who went to Haiti with a medical relief team in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. I was inspired to find a way to help and decided to donate my proceeds from my "My Life Is A Soap Opera..." Zazzle products to Doctors Without Borders in her honor.
Since I posted that blog entry I've been tweeting links to those products daily with information about this fund raising effort.
Crystal Chappell was kind enough to show her support by retweeting my links to products featuring her character, Carly Manning, from Days Of Our Lives, one I did for her husband, Michael Sabatino's character, Alan and others. I was also retweeted by Kim Turrisi, Nadia Bjorlin, and other members of Team Venice.
My links were also retweeted by Eden Riegel (ex-Bianca, AMC & new Heather, Y&R), Carolyn Hennessy (Diane, General Hospital), Martha Byrne (ex-Lily, As The World Turns and creator of the webseries Gotham), and Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis, General Hospital) and then retweeted by people who follow them on Twitter.
Special thanks to soap opera bloggers We Love Soaps, SoapTown USA, and Soap Opera Network for helping to spread the word, too. And a special shout out to Destini of the Big Purple Dreams message board and OutViews.com for her many retweets in support of this project!
My proceeds for "My Life Is A Soap Opera..." products came to a total of $80 and as I tweeted about that last night I began to get tweets from others who wanted contribute, some with matching donations. Within just a couple of hours, the total amount gathered in this fund raising effort came to $415! If you'd like to see what this money can do, read this.
There were many, many individuals who helped spread the word about this fund raiser on Twitter and other places, too, and I couldn't possibly name them all. I hope that you will accept this collective "Thank you!" from the bottom of my heart! My friend who inspired all of this in the first place is currently unavailable for comment but I can't wait till she hears how it all turned out!*
Stay tuned...maybe I'll do another fund raiser someday!
*My thanks to @drcrusher39 for her sacrifice and service and special thanks also to @DrLisaThompson for who helped encourage this effort from the beginning.
ADDENDUM, 3/20/10
I got the following message from my friend, @drcrusher39 on Twitter, who inspired this fund raiser:
@donnadpool thanks for all your efforts! I made a $500 donation to match. Luv u!
She also mentioned that she's back in Haiti for a while "...to help a friend." She took her sisters and their husbands with her this time.
Did I mention that she's an amazing lady?
So, that brings the total for this fund raiser to $915.00! Just a few soap opera fans, trying to make a difference in the world!
Donna
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for daring something worthy!
Dave & I are very proud to be a part of this endeavor.
More importantly, the people of Haiti will receive much needed medical relief.
Our mutual friend will be more than pleased!
Doc & Dave
Great job, Donna! this was wonderful and I was thrilled to purchase something. Love your creativity and your giving nature.
ReplyDeletePhyl
That's absolutely fabulous, Donna. Congratulations to you and all the folks who either bought items from the "My Life Is A Soap Opera" campaign for Haiti and those who made donations to the worthwhile cause.
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