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Helping To Feed The Hungry This Easter

written by John Chow on March 5, 2007

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Life-Changing Easter Meal – Just $2.59

Easter is just a few short weeks away and the Union Gospel Mission needs your help. The Mission will be providing over 41,900 hot meals and other life-changing services to hungry, hurting and homeless men, women and children in the Greater Vancouver area during the next few weeks.

The Union Gospel Mission has been helping the less fortunate since 1940. They are an organization that I support and I’m asking you to join me in helping to feed the hungry this Easter. A complete meal cost just $2.59. This is an amount I believe we can all afford.

I Will Match Your Donation

I was wondering how I could help the Mission more this Easter and I’ve came up with an evil plan. I will match every dollar donated by the John Chow dot Com community up to a maximum of $500.00. Simply make a donation at UGM’s online donation page, then email me a copy of the email receipt. Feel free to leave a comment about your donation as well. For tax reasons, some readers in the US may want to donate to Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. That is fine; I will match donations to them as well.

This is the evil part of the plan: 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. 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.

April 8 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.

Vancouver’s Union Gospel MissionSeattle’s Union Gospel Mission

*Update – If you wishes to make a donation using PayPal, you may do so by sending the funds to johnchow@johnchow.com and I’ll add it all together and write the UGM a check for the total amount.

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Wow! Glad that they managed to collect such a tremendous sum of money! That is sure to provide much-needed food.

I just sent in my donation. :)

With 7K last month from your blog's earning, many people will thank you for all the hot meals.

Hey

Great idea John, and some great publicity you are offering the mission. See, not so evil after all!

I have donated $25.90 for the 10 meals.

I normally donate to the missionaries of charity, but I just made a small donation for the vancouver mission.

A great idea John!

I called the Union Gospel Mission to see if they were going to set up PayPal to accept donations. They are going to try to get one set up in the Vancouver UGM.

It'd really help if they set up some form of paypal. If they did, I might feel generous again and send more money. *shrug*

I have received emails totaling $356.32 in donations now! WOW! I'm blown away!

I think it will be over 1K in member donations. Thats my little prediction.

Maybe John should raise his $500 cap :)

I'll be tossing in my donation later this afternoon.

"Can I get a thousand? 500 to the man in the black turtleneck with horns and red eyes. Do I hear 1,000?"

Excellent idea, I just submitted my transfer from bank to Paypal so I will be making a donation in just a few days when the transfer is complete :smile:

John, what's wrong. I keep getting this "Done, but with errors on page" at the bottom of this page. Is that IE 6.0 problem again?

The number may be even larger than you think. I donated to the Seattle branch and haven't forwarded the email yet. I figure why not -- tax-deductible and a good cause and a link from high traffic website? It's a no-brainer.

I donated $10.50. Not a whole lot, but it'll pay for four meals, I believe, if my math is on. :???:

It's not the number that count. :lol: After all, John only asked for one and you have done for one. Good job!

Sorry, that was fat finger. I mean you have done for 4. :oops:

Hey everybody,

My name is Kevan – I work in UGM’s communications department, and help oversee the website. All your suggestions about PayPal are smart and in-touch. I’ve just contacted our technical support team and asked them to look into getting PayPal running on the site. We use Moneris to manage our donations, and it’s synched up with an internal database that manages our donors. I’d imagine it will take a bit of figuring to work out PayPal on our system (maybe a week or so?), but I’d love to hear your suggestions if you have any.

Thanks again for being so generous, everybody. And John, you’re an amazing guy for spearheading this. I’ll be writing & publishing another news release for our front page again to give you due credit.

- kevan

Kevan, you are welcome. Hope you folks reached the target that you are aiming for!

Ditto! Best of luck, Kevan.

$186.56 so far in donations. You people are awesome! :grin:

That is some money indeed in a short period of time from posting! er.. 3 hours?

Should be more than $200 now. :lol:

wow.. :shock: in that little time!!

Sheesh. That's pretty awesome actually.

Done. Just fed 10 people through the Seattle Union Gospel Mission. Now I'm off to feed myself. :smile:

Wonderfully evil John. I applaud your efforts to use your influence to help those who need it.

Great way to give back some of that $7,011.05 from February :-D

No but really, good idea John. Thanks again for participating in my Monthly Blog Revenue Study.

Do they consider reading John Chow's comment as an addiction to blog? :lol:

John, why don't you charge, 1 comments for 1 donation otherwise the comment will be removed? :evil:

Just donated for 10 meals. Great idea. Wish they took paypal. I'm not into having so many cards in my wallet to get a PayPal debit card. My wallet already looks like George Costanza!

Nice gesture, John! However, I just wonder, was that the evil part in this plan that drove the comment numbers down or what?

BTW, could a donations to local soup kitchen count if we email you the receipt? :twisted:

Down? It looks to be on the rise instead!

Yeah, you're right. Just notice that the number is rising now especially the evil one (like me) start to innundate (not spam :evil: ) this comment post to increase the number of their comments with the hope to lower their Technorati rating. Ok, I'd better stop here before making someone mad. :lol:

Great one John. Unfortunately I won't be able to take part in this. Too much technical difficulties to get money from Suriname to anywhere in the world, especially for such low amounts.

He has a heart? I don't believe it.

Evil or good, everyone has one! :wink:

Until they add a sweet heart then they'd have two. :evil: :lol:

Good cause here, John, and $19.20 feeds and cares for 10 people.

It's great the know that if even just 10 people donate that helps at least 100 people. I did this, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.

Was that fat finger or US$ or what? My meat calculator said you need $25.9 to feed 10 people. But hey, better you than me. You have made donations and that was what counts. Good for you.

I'm in the US so I made my donation to the group in Seattle. That's how much they said goes to care for 10 people.

http://www.ugm.org/

Thanks for the link. How did you email John Chow after making the donation? His Contact Us page does not accept the attachment. :lol:

I just copy and pasted the text. :mrgreen:

Keep this up and you'll be known as the root of all virtue :wink:

Yeah, I always amazed reading all the good ideas that came out from his evil mind. :lol:

Hmm.. nice knowing you did some social works here too John. Unfortunately, I'm living in a far away land. :smile:

Me Too, for stuff like this I prefer to give to local charities, I suppose thats a bit mean, I could give to both....

Its a great idea though, I definately think a paypal option would be useful

I'm in for 4 meals, one for each person in my family. Thanks for the opportunity to donate John.

I am not religious at all, but I still made a donation since I know that religious groups do not discriminate amongst the hungry (at least I hope not). I was hesitant to give to a church, but on the other hand I believe this to be a good cause for humanity. I only hope it is not a way for these missionaries to track me down and evangelize to me.

Hannes you are real funny man.. Any way John is upto something good. I am sad that since I dont have a credit card right now (Pay Pal got no money in it) I cant donate :sad: