Blogathon 2009 closes with a bang: grand tally, Grand Prize, and Top Donor results
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Karen Hamilton
July 26, 2009
So here we are, at the close of Blogathon 2009, and Team Tiny Bites is none the worse for wear. I’m liking this 8-hour shift better than the 24-hour craziness I endured last year!
Let’s see how we did in raising awareness and donations for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.
Final Tally
As of 6:01am PST on July 26, 2009, 34 individuals and 9 corporate sponsors have raised $2365.01 , exceeding our original goal of $2000 and an admirable effort in reaching for our revised goal of $2500.
Because of you, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society will have an additional $7095.03 worth of food to provide to those in need in our community.
Top Donor Honours
Please help us in congratulating Victor T. for donating $180 for the Food Bank – a personal contribution of $540 worth of food.
You truly deserve the Top Donor prize of a 3-restaurant, progressive multi-course dinner for 2 at Blue Water Cafe, West, and CinCin!
Please also give a big round of applause for our other top donors:
- Dawn – $175
- Mojgan – $150
- George – $110
- Melissa – $100
- Bob – $100
Who gets the Tiny Bites Grand Prize?
I used random.org to pull this person’s name out of a hat, and have Victor and Lorraine here as witness to the results….
We are pleased to announce that Jason L. has won the Tiny Bites Grand Prize!
Thank you, Jason – your contribution to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society earned you a $450 prize package and has given people in our community more food to feed their hunger.
Special Thanks
We couldn’t have generated the publicity and funds that we now have without your support, dear readers. Let us spotlight a few of the people and organizations that we’d especially like to send our gratitude to:
- Our Gold sponsors: ChristaHoops, Coast Hotels & Resorts, Qoola Yogurt + Fruit, Sebastian & Co
- Our Silver sponsors: Blue Water Cafe, CinCin, West, Araxi, Social Bites
- Our Bronze sponsors: Artisan Sakemaker, Farmstead Wines, Uva Wine Bar, Rouxbe
- Our guest blogger, Dave Hoffmann
- Rebecca Bollwitt of Miss604.com for organizing us Vancouverites for Blogathon 2009
- The Workspace for the great working venue and harbour views of the North Shore and last night’s spectacular sunset and lightning show
- The Development Disabilities Association for the Steamworks pizza that kept us going from dinner onwards
- All you Twitterites and blog visitors and supported us through comments, retweets, Facebook shares, and site mentions
Again, a sincere thanks from us at Tiny Bites and on behalf of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.
Good night.
Categories: Blogathon 2009, Blogging for Social Change, Food
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Congrats, you did it! I’m very proud of you, you’ve done good work today. Looking forward to seeing you around next year and have a great sleep. -Jeff
it is nice to see you all doing something for the community and the benefits derived from those efforts. i applaud you and salute you.
Hopefully we can add another some more $$ towards the grand goal with our Social Bites effort. All you hobby chefs out there go – sign up for an upcoming events and we’ll donate. http://tinybites.ca/2009/07/24/become-a-social-bites-hobby-chef-and-help-the-food-bank-to-boot/
Well done all of you
hi karen! it was nice meeting you at blogathon and your cookies and pho were both delicious. great job at blogathon and i hope to see you again for the next one.