1st Annual Vancouver Blogathon for Charity
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Posted by Jenn Lowther
Please help Invoke support Plan Canada and the village of N’Gouraba by donating to the cause at Plan’s website.
Vancouver’s first annual blogathon for charity is set to start 10 pm Friday, July 26 and will finish 9 pm Sunday, July 28. There are three shifts that bloggers could sign up for and Invoke has signed up for the Sunshine Shift – 10 pm Friday to 10 pm Saturday. This may be the first Vancouver specific blogathon, but it flows from a long tradition of blogathons. When the people who organized the previous blogathons could not organize it this year, Rebecca – Vancouver’s Miss604 – stepped in and organized this years event.
Last year, Vancouver was represented by Rebecca and Raul, but Vancouver has really stepped up to the plate this year and as of the time I wrote this post, there are 14 Vancouver bloggers (including us) signed up to participate – Rebecca Bollwitt, Tania Morrison, Raul, Shane Gibson, Karen Hamilton, Ayeza Garcia, Isabella Mori, Danny Dang, Mehnaz Thawer, Barbara Doduk, Chris Richardson, Colleen Vince, and Duane Storey. There is still a week to sign up and I highly encourage all the Vancouver bloggers that haven’t signed up yet to do so.
A blogathon is a 24-hour period when you write a blog post every 30 minutes for a good cause. Yes, you read that right – we will be posting 48 blog posts! I’ve put the word out here and our team members have really stepped up to the plate – yes 48 posts from me may have gotten a bit boring. Thus far, Nadia Nascimento, David Tedman, Dario Meli, Ryan Holmes, Andre Liem, Murat Ayfer, James Wilson, and our very own bacon chocolate chip cookie baking Zuri Scrivens have volunteered to write at least one post. This list will most likely grow as the actual date grows closer.
Invoke has set a fund raising goal of $1000 $3000 (thanks for everyone who’s donated – we reached our original goal within hours – it feels great to be able to increase it) for the blogathon. If you would like to support our efforts – which we would greatly appreciate – you can make a donation to the cause here (the page will be going live later today). Invoke has chosen a charity that is very close to our hearts The Lochmaddy Foundation. Invoke is connected to this charity through Dario Meli and David Tedman who sit on the board. Through the Lochmaddy Foundation, all donations will be directed to a community in Mali, West Africa. Families in N’Gouraba are working hard to improve their lives and the lives of their children through a special agricultural project. Your donation will empower and enable them to realize increased crops, more family income with new opportunities and a brighter future.
We are collecting donations through Plan Canada who are our partner on the ground there. I would like to thank them and specifically Heather for all of their hard work in helping Invoke bring this all together.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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