Rally The Troops!

Hi All! Intern Lauren here!

So, I know you guys are all like money, money, money, ok whatever. But I thought it might be incredibly useful and maybe pull at your heart strings a little more to know where the funds from this donation drive is actually going. So, I thought in lieu of a purple thermometer (but OMG a purple thermometer after so many days of taking my temperature kind of speaks to me, no? No.), I’d tell you about where we are so far. Since Monday we’ve raised just about $2,000 in mostly $5 increments. That means A LOT of people have donated. Like woah.

In real life terms, it means that Meg has the real life option to pay Alyssa and I for 3 months at minimum wage (coughcough nudgenudge), or  she now has a little more financial freedom to really start planning and working on the sister site, Reclaiming Wife (set to launch sometime in 2011, fingers crossed!). We also have some other community based (hello, that means YOU!)  ideas being thrown around and researched – all of which costs money. Le sigh.

Amazing, yes? But what if we could we raise a whole 5K? What if Meg could launch Reclaiming Wife AND still set aside some safety money to make the community bigger and better? Would it be worth another $5? How would you like to see APW grow and improve? What if I throw in a kitty?

(Image found from dailycuteness.comyou should check them out eeeeeee!!!)

Now, I totally get that not everyone wants to give money, it’s not how you roll, and we’re all fine with that. Handshake, no guilt and all that. For Reals. BUT! I also know that there are tons of you who are thinking that maybe you kind of should give money, and sort of want to, but haven’t quite gotten around to it. Why do I know? Because I’ve watched about 100 hours of Rick Steves’ Europe during PBS pledge marathons and never could quite work up the energy to be one of those people calling on the ringing phones behind the hosts. But I always WANTED to be.

So if that’s you, think of the kittens.