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We Raised Over $1,000 For the Union Gospel Mission

written by John Chow on March 9, 2007

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I want to thank everyone who donated to the Union Gospel Mission’s Easter Meal drive. I asked for help and you guys answered to the tune of $507.07 in donations! As promised, I will be matching your donations to bring the total gift to $1,014.14. That’s enough for nearly 400 Easter dinners. I like to acknowledge the following readers who made a donation.

Because the UGM does not accept PayPal at this time, some readers have PayPal their donation to me in trust. I have received PayPal payments totaling $180.71. I will be adding that to my matching $507.07 donation and present the Union Gospel Mission with a check for $687.78.

Once again, a big thanks to everyone who made a donation to feed the hungry this Easter. I can’t express how proud I am of the John Chow dot Com community. If you haven’t made a donation but wish to do so, you may do it online at Union Gospel Mission Vancouver or Union Gospel Mission Seattle.

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{ 26 comments }

lyndonmaxewell March 9, 2007 at 7:09 pm

Wow.. that is a sure sum of money to feed the hungry folks! Applause for the contributers!

bryce March 9, 2007 at 7:12 pm

Wow, congrats :)

Why only a check for $687 though?

John Chow March 9, 2007 at 7:13 pm

Because the rest of the money was donated by readers directly to the UGM.

bryce March 9, 2007 at 7:19 pm

Duh. I’m a bit silly sometimes :)

revyd March 9, 2007 at 7:15 pm

John, Way to go. It kinda destroys you’re evil reputation though. :evil:

Another great organization that does and awesome job helping people is kiva.org.

David March 11, 2007 at 12:51 am

No kidding!!! Where is the evil in this???

But…congrats…its good to see you reaching out like this :grin:

derrich March 9, 2007 at 7:42 pm

Great job…everyone that donated should be commended. This was a great idea, John…and I think I may do this on my blog for my community.

Tom March 9, 2007 at 7:59 pm

That wasn’t very evil.

Matthew March 10, 2007 at 12:03 am

every other post is evil but this one ;)

lyndonmaxewell March 10, 2007 at 12:07 am

This is one of grace, nothing less. :grin:

Aris March 9, 2007 at 8:16 pm

John,

Didn’t you promise to list all the contributors? Are you going to list them in a batch too? :lol:

Hannes Johnson March 10, 2007 at 5:52 am

I’m seeing a list of contributors – with a link to their websites…

lyndonmaxewell March 10, 2007 at 6:33 am

I guess what he meant that the above is not the full exhaustive list of contributers.

John Chow March 10, 2007 at 8:29 am

That is the full list.

Ashish Mohta March 9, 2007 at 8:21 pm

thats really good, its a cause that everybody should support in one way or other.If not by donation by words.It boosts the moral of people atleast.

congrats

Steve March 9, 2007 at 10:39 pm

Good show to all who donated! We personally donate to our local Salvation Army.

bobbarama March 9, 2007 at 10:45 pm

Wow. That’s terrific. This was such a great idea, John. Really. Great, great, great job!!!

Shawn Knight March 9, 2007 at 11:57 pm

Excellent turnout, and as others have said, a big thanks to everyone who participated, give yourself a pat on the back, you deserve it! :cool:

Matthew March 10, 2007 at 12:02 am

wow congrats, that sounds like a nice accomplishment i hope i can achieve someday… giving back

Andrew Chen March 10, 2007 at 1:52 am

I just notice the post received over 20 thousand views which is unreasonably higher than other post. I am wondering why?

Aris March 10, 2007 at 4:58 am

John,

I went back to read your email response to me and I just realized that I misread it. Somehow I got the impression at that time that you “CAN” read the UGM link that I sent you after, and didn’t think that you actually said you CAN’T read and I soon forgot about it. I made the online contribution using the link Ryan mentioned in his reply on my comments at the original thread. I just forwarded you the email from UGM they sent me after I received your reply. Now I know why mysattrack.net wasn’t in your list. Could I get it added to the list John? Thanks.

MillionDollarJourney.com March 10, 2007 at 6:22 am

I’m happy to see that your charity event was a success!

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Ryan March 10, 2007 at 6:50 am

Glad to see so much was raised for helping some people in need! Nothing evil about that. :mrgreen:

Hannes Johnson March 10, 2007 at 8:22 am

Great job everybody! I’m glad to have been a part of this.

Maybe John should set up a John Chow Foundation that regularly collects donations? But then he would of course lose some of his evil status – and he probably doesn’t want that happening :twisted:

Mark Robinson March 16, 2007 at 12:03 pm

Way to go you guys.

Zach March 20, 2007 at 2:47 pm

wow, way to put the money towards a great cause