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Our next idea for giving when we have nothing to give is simple: bring in more income so we can give some away. Read the post to find out how

Wow. I’m tired. We’re all tired. Tired but happy.

It has been an incredible day. A day of amazing generosity. A day of fun, food and fund raising.

How much did we raise? Read the post to find out!

If you’ve arrived at this site because you came to the Hot Dogs for Haiti fund raiser. WELCOME, and THANK YOU for coming by today. Hopefully we’re going to raise hundreds of dollars for the aid efforts in Haiti and Chile.

Today we had a hot dog tasting session.
We tried four different kinds of hot dogs and the winner was…. the cheapest one.
In the end, it didn’t win on the strength of its taste but rather on the fact that it costs the least so we can maximize the amount we are making to give to charity.
Our church is paying for the supplies so that we can give all of the proceeds to charity but there’s not point in spending more of the church’s money than we need to!
We have a …

We’ve had an incredible roller-coaster ride over the last week or so.
We decided that our house was a little out of the way and started looking for somewhere with more passing traffic to situate the Hot Dogs for Haiti fundraiser.
We found an empty plot of land on a fairly busy street corner and asked the owner if we could use it for the fundraiser and he was only too willing to help. He even told us he’d distribute some fliers for us.
I sent an email to the local newspaper (The …

I’m so proud of my kids right now!
After the success of Change for Chile, Rebekah and Caleb were not ready to give up their fundraising efforts and felt inspired to carry on.
Rebekah came up with the idea of doing a hot dog fundraiser and so, Hot Dogs for Haiti was born.
Our church (Hands and Feet, Hanford) is donating all the supplies and we’re hoping to get into the local paper.
We’ve picked a date of March 20th 2010 on our front lawn. Probably from around 11am-1pm.
We’ll probably drop fliers into some …

What have we raised to date?
As of March 16th 2010, we have raised:

$250.47 from Change for Chile
$844.53 from Hot Dogs for Haiti

For a total of: $1095
As of October 14th, we have raised:

$251 through our Websites for Wells program

Our total so far this year is therefore: $1346 …. and counting.

Less than a week after we collected up our change to send to the Haiti relief effort, a massive earthquake struck Chile, once again causing destruction, death and despair.
Although many buildings in Chile have been built to withstand the effects of earthquakes, most older buildings did not fare so well and even some of the newer ones found it difficult to withstand the effects of such a huge quake.
Again, my family sat down together to scratch our heads and ponder what we could possibly do.
That’s when the idea of ‘Change …

Do we have any spare change?
The first way we came up with to be able to help others when it seemed we had nothing to give was to give our ‘spare’ change.
Debbie suggested this idea to the family on the morning of February 21st 2010 and the idea was simple.
There were coins laying in drawers, piggy banks, play wallets and forgotten pots and holders all over our house – as there probably are in most houses around the world.
These coins, this ‘spare change’ was not being used, it wasn’t counted …

On January 12th 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit the nation of Haiti decimating towns and causing immense damage to the capital city, Port-Au-Prince.
A month later, it was reported that an estimated three million people were affected by the quake; with the Haitian Government reporting that up to 230,000 people had been killed, an estimated 300,000 injured, and around 1,000,000 homeless. Estimates were that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or been severely damaged.
The scale of the disaster was incredible and was compounded by the fact that this small …