BBN Guides: Starfish and DNSI Fundraising Ideas

  Looking for new and creative ideas to mobilize your community and maximize your impact? This month host a fundraiser for one of Foundation Beyond Belief’s beneficiaries. Beyond Belief Network teams are in the unique position of being able to connect with several of FBB’s programs while bolstering their own team. Your team doesn’t have…

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Light The Night fundraising hits $200K

Greta ChristinaThanks to all of our captains, walkers, and donors for their amazing efforts, our Light The Night team just broke $200,000! Our top five fundraisers raised more than $8,000 during Kickoff Week alone. Three of those fundraisers (PZ Myers, Ed Brayton, and Greta Christina) are part of team Freethought Blogs. They’ve got some great personal fundraising incentives going on. Greta has gotten a pink manicure and will eat vegetarian, vegan, bugs, and worst of all, broccoli. Ed is taking suggestions for hilarious unpleasant tasks he will perform once he reaches $2,000. PZ is educating people about cancer—in one case, naked in a pirate hat.

Not to be outdone, Skepchick was one of the largest teams during Kickoff Week and is also doing some great incentives. Their team incentives include super hero-creating, head-shaving, drink-mixing, art-making, hair-dying, and costume-wearing! Sarah Moglia and Rebecca Watson are also offering personal interactions to their donors.

Hair-related changes are very popular this year, with International Team Captain Todd Stiefel pledging a dyed mohawk if Team FTB or Team Skepchick raises $20,000. And our very own intern David Viviano is growing his beard until the end of the month and will shave it in one of three patterns. The particularly fun and innovative double mutton chops is currently in the lead.

Is your team doing a fun and exciting fundraiser for Light The Night, too? Get some recognition by joining Beyond Belief Network. You can get perks like t-shirts and grants for the service you already do and get ideas and tips for additional service events.

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More Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Light the Night fundraising success!

LLS Light the Night WalkWith two months left for the matching challenge courtesy of the Stiefel family, our Light the Night teams are kicking their fundraising efforts into overdrive! Last week, Todd Stiefel, Diana Stiefel, and Robert Taylor hosted a party fundraiser. Attendees gave suggested donations and participated in a silent auction for a combined total of nearly $5,000. An additional $5,000 was donated by those unable to attend.

Todd Stiefel LTN Fundraiser

 
You can find out more about the Foundation Beyond Belief LTN team or contribute directly to the fight against cancer. Every dollar we raise up to $500,000 will be matched by the Stiefel family.

Todd Stiefel LTN Fundraiser

 
For tips on throwing your own fundraising cocktail party or other LTN fundraising ideas, email the FBB Light the Night team.

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Thank You from GO Humanity

We’re sad to say we’re closing… Dear Supporters of GO Humanity, We have very heavy news. As of October 1st, 2023, GO Humanity must dissolve as an organization and cease to operate.  In 2009, we planted a seed which became the sapling of Foundation Beyond Belief which became the tree of GO Humanity. Now our…

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June Volunteer Network Roundup!

Teams in our Food Security Project (FSP) reported 52 events in June, serving 14,316 individual beneficiaries and giving out 23,011 meals! Additional GO Humanity Service Teams held 12 service events. Year, to date, that makes 92,486 individual known beneficiaries served at 414 events, and 79,293 meals/kits distributed!

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Guide: Organize an underwear collection

Collections offer opportunities for everyone in your community to participate. If someone has money and no time, they can make purchases. If someone has time but no money, they can volunteer to organize the collection and send the items. Collections can be done on their own or as part of another event. What to collect…

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March Volunteer Network Roundup!

Teams in our Food Security Project (FSP) reported 50 events in March, serving 14,848 individual beneficiaries and giving out 22,467 meals! Additional GO Humanity Service Teams held 19 more service events.

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How did it happen? Haiti food crisis explained.

Limited access to at least one meal a day is causing a phenomenon in Haiti some call ‘grangou kloròks’: hunger so acute it causes stomach pain akin to bleach eating through clothes. The people of Haiti are dropping unbelievable quotes on the press like “I don’t remember the last time I drank juice,” or “we…

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