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Help Feed The Hungry This Thanksgiving

written by John Chow on October 6, 2008

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Life-Changing Thanksgiving Meal – Just $2.59

On Monday, October 13, the Union Gospel Mission, will host their 21st annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Preparations are underway as they expect to serve thousands of meals to hungry men, women, youth and children at their Vancouver, Mission and New Westminster facilities.

The Union Gospel Mission cares for the hungry, hurting and homeless of Greater Vancouver. Founded in 1940 as a small soup kitchen, UGM now has satellite facilities in Surrey, New Westminster, Mission and downtown Vancouver, and provides services from employment training to affordable housing solutions. UGM serves over 280,000 meals each year, and provides shelter for almost 10,000 individuals a year. They are an organization that I support and I’m asking you to join me in helping to feed the hungry this Thanksgiving. A complete meal cost only $2.59. This is an amount I believe we can all afford.

I Will Match Your Donation

I will personally match every dollar donated by John Chow dot Com readers up to a maximum of $1000.00 per person. Simply make a donation at the UGM online donation page, then email me a copy of the receipt to johnchow @ johnchow.com. Feel free to leave a comment about your donation as well.

All readers making donations will be recognized in a blog post this Friday. If you have a website or blog, I will link to it. If you think about it, this is a pretty inexpensive way to get a link on this blog. :twisted:

The meals and other services we provide can be the start of a new life and new beginning for those in need. I grew up in the Downtown Eastside, the poorest neighborhood in Canada. I did not come from money. I am where I am today because I know that in order to receive any blessings in life, you must first give. The more you give, the more you receive.

October 13 is just around the corner. The meals and other services we provide can be the start of a new life and new beginning for those in need. Let’s show the Union Gospel Mission that the John Chow dot Com community cares.

Help Feed The Hungry This Thanksgiving

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I'm in for $100. Thanks for the effort around this, John.

John, you havent done any posts yet on the current financial crisis. this could very well create poverty all around the world. I'd like to see your point of view on the topic.

The John Chow foundation in the pipeline i see..

There's $20 for you. Glad I could help and thanks for the link too :)

Worthy cause, had a chance to make a donation last year and have made one this year...Mike

Very good, i really liked the work you have done. You are really a very good person. Keep doing this , we all are with you.

I just made my donation. Keep up the good job.

Just sent in a donation and emailed you a copy. Great idea.

Almost $2,000 raised so far! Let's go for more! I want to give the UGM a really big check!

I just made my donation today. But I have to say, for someone who claims to be evil. It's a really nice thing that you're doing John!!

Done and sent you the email. Wonderful idea!!!

Good to know that you are helping a social cause with your blog.

Donated and sent you a receipt. I think its really cool that you are willing to match, and that you are throwing in an incentive to get a link. It shows your truly devoted to the mission.

I'll be sure to donate what I can!

John u did a great great job. It's time for JohnChow.com gives back now =)

Donated , root of all evil doesn't suit you john :)

Hey Johh, thank you for presenting this oppurtunity.

Giving to charity is always great. I'll be sure to donate some money.

charity is good. I support this event. I think I should ask my boss to organize charity for local poor child in my country.

Yeah, I like the idea of adding a button (Tushar's thought) showing the progress or monies gathered.

Over $650 so far. Not bad for the first day.

Truly noble gesture!

John - Thanks for the opportunity to help out a bit.

Hey John... I was happy to give to this effort. I was surprised to come here and see this up, but I was glad to see it. I hope this post receives the most comments, hence donations, you've ever received. Thanks for the opportunity!

The receipt is forthcoming.

Great Idea John , In order to receive any blessing you must first give ...Awesome statement

Thats a really great idea

Alright, receipt sent!

Great idea; receipt on the way to johnchow.com. I hope you get to match a lot of these.

John, you're a rockstar. Thanks for hooking this up. We're excited to see how your amazing community responds!

I donated. Good stuff! :)

OK good
I donated and receipt mailed.

Done, great idea.

Donation has been made and will send you the receipt today. It's a good cause, and a good reminder to give thanks ..

John, I commend you for using your profile as a platform to promote the great work of UGM. And it's great that UGM takes PayPal as well as credit card payments.It took only 2 minutes, even after I read every single word on their page.

Cheers.

"Life-Changing Easter Meal - Just $2.59"

Hey John, it's not Easter. :)

I'll be getting on this later this week. Maybe you should lift that $1000 a cap... or make it a maximum match of $1000 per person. :)

Yea, I noticed that too. I believe we're coming up on Thanksgiving there John. But it's still a great thing.

It is $1,000 per person. The last time I did this, I gave over $5,000 in matching donations.

Oh good! Let's see if we can break the five figure mark this time.

Just forwarded you my paypal receipt

This is great, John. It's such a worthy cause. I'll have to write a blog post and link to this :)

All the best.

You should put up a button somewhere saying "John Chow Community has raised ______ for UGM". It could help motivate people and even attract more people to donate.

Eh, I think people will donate on their own terms.

Hey John. Great to see a big of charity work going on. Nothing like a good thanks giving dinner ay! Donation made and email sent.

Good thing you set a maximum match number, or you could end up being out millions of dollars. :)

Yeah you'd have to give up that condo

yeah but since all the money went to charity he would get a hefty tax deduction and possibly a high $ return. That would put him under the 250k that obama says makes you rich. What a great to give some chow to those who aren't in a position that we are!!!!!