In a little more than a month, the KGSA Foundation (yes, we've changed our name and will be developing a separate website too for the US efforts) will be hosting our second annual silent auction to raise money for our new campaign - the Secure a Future Campaign, and we specifically need YOUR help if this year is going to be as successful as last year!
I am well aware that we all have limited time on our hands but take a look at what our needs are below and see what you can do. Please email me with suggestions, questions, and confirmations as to what you are willing to commit to. Your help is greatly appreciated and makes a huge difference in the lives of the girls attending KGSA, it truly does.
#1 - Get the word out!! The big thing is getting NEW people into the event this year, expanding our base of potential supporters. All I'm asking is that you call or email a few of your friends and make November 12th a date that you get together for something fun - an auction with live music, drinks, and appetizers all benefiting a good cause. I'm nervous about the turnout as the space is larger, so we gotta fill it up. Please do what you can to put this in your calendar and your friends and family's calendars too!!! Below is a drafted email with all the information you'll need. Change it if you want, I'm just trying to make it as easy as I can for you to spread the word.
#2 - AUCTION ITEMS!! We still need auction items, anything works! Do you have a craft, skill, connection to a local business, or an artist, a cabin you could auction off for a weekend, what can your work offer, something in storage you have never used and always wanted to get rid off that is cool, would you be willing to put together something? I'd like to get all the items together in my possession before November 1st so I can put together the bid sheets. Please let me know about this one as soon as possible so I can put you down on my check list.
#3 - Volunteer!! I will be needing around 6-8 volunteers this year to make this year run smoothly and your presence would be needed at different periods of the event. I'll need greeters, people to help with the sign-in and registration, the gift collection at the end, and people to help clear the auction items as the tables close. If you are interested in volunteering, please email me. I appreciate all the help I can get.
Below is the pre-drafted email, tweak it if you want it to sound like its coming from you...
Hey ( Dan Otieno! )
I just found out about this great event on the 12th of November and I thought it would be fun if we went together. A few years back my friend Ryan started his own non-profit, the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (KGSA) which financially supports a school in the slums of Kibera, Kenya providing free secondary education, athletic opportunities, and artistic programming to the young women living in the slums of Kibera. He is hosting a Silent Auction to raise funding for this new campaign they're kicking off. They're calling it the Secure a Future Campaign, where 100% of the money raised from this point, until next summer will go directly into income generating opportunities that will be established in Kenya. The whole idea is to generate enough profit through these activities to meet our operational costs for the school, decreasing the school's dependency on donor support in the future. There will be live music, drinks, and appetizers so it should be a fun Friday night! Are you interested?
It's on Friday, November 12th at the University Club - the Downtown location on the 14th floor from 5:00-9:00pm. The auction tables open up at 6:00pm.
The address is 340 Cedar Street, Saint Paul.
Let me know if you are free, it'd be great to see you there and it's a great cause to support too!
Thanks in advance for all of your help, I appreciate it!
-Ryan
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