While the primary reason for hosting the “Get Up & Get Down to Get Kids Out” Vertical Challenge event is to raise the money needed to support GOALS river programs for kids, it’s also important to understand just how much awareness is brought to GOALS each time a Vertical Challenge skier asks people in their network for a donation.
With only a few days left before the event, I’m setting out to recruit a donation from someone in each of the 50 United States. Below is a current illustration of the number of online donations that GOALS has received from each state (note: donations have also come in from British Columbia, Alberta, and Auckland). To date, we’ve been supported by residents of 35 states – are YOU reading this from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan, Delaware, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire? If not, do you know someone there who will represent their state by making a contribution to the Vertical Challenge in order to accomplish the 50 state initiative?
Let’s make this happen – it’ll be quite rewarding to know that someone from every state in our country has made a financial contribution to the 2012 GOALS Vertical Challenge!!
Donation link: GOALS 2012 Vertical Challenge Secure Tax-Deductible Donations
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