Industry Wide Charity Auction for Tsunami Victims

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Its been a VERY long time since this industry got together and put on a live radio / net auction of donated goods to raise money for a good cause. I would have to say that the lastest disaster in Asia is worthy of such an event!

I will help coordinate the event if I can get a radio platform to handle it.

Any help, support, or suggestions would be helpful...


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Marc ,

Nice chatting with you.

Fantastic idea.

Even the old curmugeons at Oprano wish to assist in anyway. :)

Let us know what we can do to help.

Great idea!!

Something the WHOLE industry can get involved in.

:okthumb:

I will be bidding to make the damn penguins go away.

Good to see Oprano getting behind this as well.

Done!!!!


We will auction the penguins.

and stop the insanity.

Who will pay for me to remove the penguins?

Hell for all I care at a minimum of a 10k donation to Marc's cause , I will have them linked hot for one week to anyone's program.

Even if it does annoy everyone!

;-))

One can only imagine how many inadverdent click thrus the little bastards will generate.

....its creative marketing!

ACK! I skimmed right past this sticky thread and posted about the auction in another thread. hehe, oh well. I guess the more publicity the better.

Way to go Marc De!

In a hurry to Donate?

Check this out!

Use that Link and go Go give there! :)

Total Collected: $1,113,185.00
Number of Donors: 11,377

ALREADY!

A family house costs $70 to build is all :)

And you can give anon.



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8.25am

Total Collected: $1,113,185.00
Number of Donors: 11,377


8.37am

Total Collected: $1,171,565.00
Number of Donors: 11,840

now

Total Collected: $2,488,475.00
Number of Donors: 21,734


wow

About $100k/hr roughly

Total Collected: $3,216,400.00
Number of Donors: 30,112


Damn!!!

Amazing the generosity worldwide . :)

but is it me being an old sceptic , but do news orgainisations seem to be making it a "Giving Competition"

Japans' Govt has given the most
Wait reports coming in The US gov't has increased there donation..

?????



We at oprano individually and jointly will I am sure do what we can , I know many already have privately....





sorry as well as being cynical , I am anal...I thought I'd dig out some interesting quotes :)



The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton


Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D. Rockefeller


"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses." -- Chinese proverb



"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." - MARGARET THATCHER


""My father once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there is much less competition there."" - INDIRA GANDHI.

Total Collected: $3,615,315.00

Number of Donors: 34,920

info on the Tsunami Charity Auction can be found here:

http://www.tsunamicharityauction.com

I am just sending more to our troops.

I think this may take attention away from them, and honestly they are more important to me. Though I definately think the US should do as much as we can.

I and Oprano will certainly support the auction in any way we can.

But direct aid to the redcross is good too.


BTW up here "Doctors without Borders" are saying forget it , we don't need anymore money?

I was like ,huh?

Anyone else heard this?

MikeAI -

My friend has made it back from his deployment in Iraq. You would enjoy this letter I was sent from him mentioning how he survived an IED attack on his hummer where 3 of the 5 in there had to be flown to a Hospital in DC.

He also mentioned all of the good he saw like Houses, schools and hospitals being built. How the Iraqi children love even one piece of candy that he gives and the toys he passed out which his own children sent for the Iraqi children.

The Tsunami ravaged areas are horrible. Something worth contributing to. However, your point is well taken. The troops are certainly seeing less support now as the media coverage has died down.

Tsunami Charity Auction is being organized by Marc De, owner of ARS, and broadcast on the YNOTRadio Network on Monday, January 24th starting at 3pm EST/NOON PT.

:)