If you poke your head over to the front page, you'll see a new article called Rappstar's Ironman Arizona Charity Challenge. The article explains pretty much everything, but the condensed version is as follows. I am trying to raise $15,000 to sponsor a school in Zambia with bicycles from World Bicycle Relief. $15,000 sends 100 bicycles and provides for the training of two field mechanics. To raise this money, I'm asking all of you (and more people out there in the WWW and beyond) to chip in. But, as much I know you would all donate just for that warm fuzzy feeling inside, I've decided to offer you a bit more than just total consciousness (which is nice). I've put together some pretty sweet prizes. And there are more coming (I hope). The big prize is a complete SRAM RED TT groupset worth $2600. And there are more awesome prizes.
To enter the raffle you need to donate $134 here: http://grassroots.kintera.org/Active/Rappstar. You can donate less than that, but you won't get a raffle ticket, just that happy feeling of having done something nice. If you donate more than $134, you can get multiple raffle tickets, one ticket for every $134 you donate.
You can also snail mail donations to this address, but make sure that we have a way to get in touch with you in case you win:
World Bicycle Relief
Attn: Katie Bolling (Rappstar Raffle)
1333 Kingsbury Street
4th floor
Chicago, IL 60642
The raffle will be held digitally. Basically, we'll dump everyones name into a database and then run a random number generator to pick the winners. We're going to go on a rolldown format, where you get to pick the prize, then then next person gets to pick, etc. So you can take whatever prize you want.
If you visit the donation site, you'll see that I've donated $126 to start. That's because $15,000 doesn't divide evenly by $134. So I chipped in the difference as a starter, so that if 111 raffle tickets are sold, we'll hit $15,000 exactly.
Okay, fire away with questions, comments, etc.
UPDATES 2009.11.30:
Okay, that's all. The raffle portion is closed as of 7:31 EST. You can still donate, but the raffle tickets are set as of now. I will commence with the randomizing of numbers and drawing of tickets.
Thank you very, very much to everyone who donated. Collectively, we have raised $23,157. All of that will be matched as well, meaning that through our efforts, $46,314 will be going to support World Bicycle Relief!
UPDATES 2009.11.26:
Highway 12 Vineyards has donated TWO mixed cases of their wines (separate prizes), including some of their very special reserve wines. http://www.highway12winery.com/ Michael Sebastiani, the founder, is a passionate triathlete, coach, and ST forum member! Thanks Michael & Highway 12
UPDATES 2009.11.20:
I have some new prizes that aren't listed yet. But I'm working on getting them up.
Specialized has donated two prizes:
- a MEDIUM (only medium, no swapping frame sizes) Specialized Transitions Expert Frame, Fork, Seatpost and Saddle
- a set of Roval Fusee Star wheels.
Simon Whitfield & Orca Publishers have donated 100 copies of his new book "Simon Says Gold" that will go to the first 100 people who gave (or give, we aren't at 100 people yet) $134 or more.
NormaTec has donated a one month rental of the NormaTec MVP system (you can pick the month)
Speedplay has donated a set of chrome-moly Zero pedals and a Speedplay hat or beanie, t-shirt, and socks
Scott Williford of the Mansfield Group (a rep group in the industry) has donated a Giro Ionos helmet, Giro Advantage helmet, and Giro Filter sunglasses.
The really exciting part is that about halfway through the raffle, we found out that an anonymous donor has agreed to match ALL gifts to WBR up to $1,000,000 (yes, that is the right number of zeros). So my new goal is to raise another $7,500. That sets a target of $22,500. But if we meet that, we'll have raised enough to sponsor THREE schools with the matching gifts.
Because of the late prize notice - and the amazing volume of prizes - I've decided to extend the raffle one more week. So we'll end it Sunday, Nov. 29 (well really Monday morning when I wake up and start sorting the prizes).
I also found out I can get involved with the Janus charity fund via Ironman, so that's gonna get some more bicycles as well.
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp
To enter the raffle you need to donate $134 here: http://grassroots.kintera.org/Active/Rappstar. You can donate less than that, but you won't get a raffle ticket, just that happy feeling of having done something nice. If you donate more than $134, you can get multiple raffle tickets, one ticket for every $134 you donate.
You can also snail mail donations to this address, but make sure that we have a way to get in touch with you in case you win:
World Bicycle Relief
Attn: Katie Bolling (Rappstar Raffle)
1333 Kingsbury Street
4th floor
Chicago, IL 60642
The raffle will be held digitally. Basically, we'll dump everyones name into a database and then run a random number generator to pick the winners. We're going to go on a rolldown format, where you get to pick the prize, then then next person gets to pick, etc. So you can take whatever prize you want.
If you visit the donation site, you'll see that I've donated $126 to start. That's because $15,000 doesn't divide evenly by $134. So I chipped in the difference as a starter, so that if 111 raffle tickets are sold, we'll hit $15,000 exactly.
Okay, fire away with questions, comments, etc.
UPDATES 2009.11.30:
Okay, that's all. The raffle portion is closed as of 7:31 EST. You can still donate, but the raffle tickets are set as of now. I will commence with the randomizing of numbers and drawing of tickets.
Thank you very, very much to everyone who donated. Collectively, we have raised $23,157. All of that will be matched as well, meaning that through our efforts, $46,314 will be going to support World Bicycle Relief!
UPDATES 2009.11.26:
Highway 12 Vineyards has donated TWO mixed cases of their wines (separate prizes), including some of their very special reserve wines. http://www.highway12winery.com/ Michael Sebastiani, the founder, is a passionate triathlete, coach, and ST forum member! Thanks Michael & Highway 12
UPDATES 2009.11.20:
I have some new prizes that aren't listed yet. But I'm working on getting them up.
Specialized has donated two prizes:
- a MEDIUM (only medium, no swapping frame sizes) Specialized Transitions Expert Frame, Fork, Seatpost and Saddle
- a set of Roval Fusee Star wheels.
Simon Whitfield & Orca Publishers have donated 100 copies of his new book "Simon Says Gold" that will go to the first 100 people who gave (or give, we aren't at 100 people yet) $134 or more.
NormaTec has donated a one month rental of the NormaTec MVP system (you can pick the month)
Speedplay has donated a set of chrome-moly Zero pedals and a Speedplay hat or beanie, t-shirt, and socks
Scott Williford of the Mansfield Group (a rep group in the industry) has donated a Giro Ionos helmet, Giro Advantage helmet, and Giro Filter sunglasses.
The really exciting part is that about halfway through the raffle, we found out that an anonymous donor has agreed to match ALL gifts to WBR up to $1,000,000 (yes, that is the right number of zeros). So my new goal is to raise another $7,500. That sets a target of $22,500. But if we meet that, we'll have raised enough to sponsor THREE schools with the matching gifts.
Because of the late prize notice - and the amazing volume of prizes - I've decided to extend the raffle one more week. So we'll end it Sunday, Nov. 29 (well really Monday morning when I wake up and start sorting the prizes).
I also found out I can get involved with the Janus charity fund via Ironman, so that's gonna get some more bicycles as well.
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp