Shane CoRegardless of one’s religious or spiritual views, I always like when the holiday season is approaching for several reasons. Family is the first thing that comes to mind. With all the chaos in life, there are always several days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day where my family all gathers together. It’s a special time that reminds me what the real most important things in life are. Giving is the other really important thing that occurs each and every year around this time. Yes, we should all probably be giving more, and year-round at that, but as the end of the calendar year approaches, the reminders and opportunities for giving seems to become omnipresent, and I am grateful for it.
This year, Shane Co. is doing something that I think is really special with giving in mind this year.
We have chosen four charities that are important to our family, as well as the entire team at Shane Co. We are going to be donating money to these four charities, but in a very unique and fun way, that we are hoping inspires others to get in the giving mood as well this year, to whatever institutions or people are near and dear to their own hearts.
What’s so unique about our donation this year is that we’ve decided to allow our online community vote on how the money gets distributed! It’s really a bottom-up approach to giving, that I personally think embodies the whole spirit of giving in the first place!
Our contest will take place on Facebook, and we are placing our four charities’ pieces of our $10,000 donation up for vote via our Facebook community.
After someone “likes” our Facebook page, they go to our Sweepstakes tab on our Facebook page, and vote which charity to donate to. Easy as that! Additionally, one can invite friends to vote for their favorite charity directly from our page as well.
The giving doesn’t stop there, and simply for voting on a charity each person will be entered to win a grand prize Shane Co $1,000 gift card, or a $250 gift card which we will award weekly during the contest!
In brief, the contest runs from 11/22/2010-1/7/2011, and the charities that we’ve chosen to team-up with are: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Dumb Friends League, National Jewish Health, Volunteers of America, and. As I mentioned before, each of these charities personally means something to us at Shane Co, so regardless of the voting outcome, we’re happy to see our money go to any of them.
Hopefully everyone gets as excited about this as we are, and we are able to achieve our end-goal, of getting everyone in the giving mood, and for those who are not in a position to be able to donate their money, time, clothing or anything else this year, this awards everyone to have a chance to still partake in the spirit of giving.
