For the past two months I've been fundraising money for the Breast Cancer Fund by raking leaves!
To gather interested folks I created fliers and put them up around town at local markets, gyms, and coffee houses. My fliers asked for a $35 donation to BCF for clearing their yard of leaves... I was SO excited when I got my first leave raking request on Nov. 1st as I was moving into my new apartment. I made an appointment to rake their yard the next weekend.... little did I know how much work clearing a yard of leaves entailed!
The seemingly small front yard and fairly large backyard took me about 6 hours to rake and bag. The next house I raked I enlisted help from my boyfriend. We raked the front yard in about 3 hours and had to enlist more leaf raking solders to help out when we returned to finish the back yard! I'm very, very grateful for all the wonderful people that have responded to my "Got Leaves?" fliers around town! So far I have raked 3 yards and raised $310 towards my $10, 000 fundraising goal.
Luckily everyone took to heart my hours of hard work raking and bagging leaves and donated very generously above the $35 requested on my flyer. People really are nice and really do care.
Climb On,
Jess :)
p.s. I keep forgetting to take a camera with me to capture the action, but promise to take leaf raking pics soon to add to the blog!
About Me
- Jess Barton: Climb Against the Odds
- Richmond, VA
- As an avid hiker and outdoors woman, Climb Against the Odds sparked my interest immediately. Hiking for Breast Cancer Prevention? ... SIGN ME UP! Also, having a great love and concern for environmental issues, I was further compelled to participate in the Climb Against the Odds because of the Breast Cancer Fund works to identify – and advocate for elimination of – the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. Can you believe that a woman today has a 1 in 8 chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime? Can you further believe that only 10% of breast cancer occurrences are due to a genetic predisposition to the disease? In fact, when all known risk factors and characteristics are added together, including family history, genetics, smoking and obesity, more than 50% of breast cancer cases remain unexplained.
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