You really do need to check out the new BARC LOC Challenge Fundraiser
Website <http://www.overthefence.com/raffle/BARC/>
that Karen Pickel did for our current fundraising event!! We have a
Pre-Holiday Fundraiser that has 15 items and we will have that drawing on
December 12th. You need to get those checks sent in right NOW! The other
81 items in the Fundraiser will run through January 15th and the drawing
will be around January 25th. Please crosspost this to other lists you are
on and feel free to put it in your club newspapers.
This is a Challenge Fundraiser ~ our goal is to see which organization can
raise the most money during our fundraiser. We are raising money for both
BARC (Berner Auction Rescue Coalition, Inc.) and LOC (Light One Candle.)
We all know the tremendous amount of support that BARC has received over
the last two years, and we all know that the lobbying effort is equally
important. Thus was born the idea of the challenge raffle - we are all
being challenged to raise funds for whichever organization we want to
support.
BARC, Inc. (Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition, Inc.) is a non-profit
corporation dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating Bernese Mountain Dogs
from dog brokers, dog auctions, puppy mills, pet shops and any other
dangerous, exploitative or abusive situations. BARC, Inc. places its
rescues in loving pet homes as spayed or neutered companions. Donations to
BARC are tax deductible; they are a 501(c)3 organization. For donations to
BARC, please make your check payable to "BARC."
Please check out the BARC website at:
http://www.barcinc.com
The Light One Candle Fund (LOC) was established in the summer of 2001. It's
purpose is to establish, through donations from individuals and
organizations, a fund that can be used to fight auctions, puppy mills and
careless breeding through public education and pressure on legislators.
Donations for lobbying are not tax deductible. Even though Light One
Candle is a separate group, the funds are handled by the BMDCA. For
donations to LOC, the lobbying effort, make your checks payable to the
"BMDCA" and on the memo line, write "LOC." Pease check out the LOC website
at: http://141.211.110.76/Candle/lightonecandle.htm
If you can't decide which organization you'd like to support, then you can
divide your money between the two organizations. In this situation, you can
either write two separate checks or make your check payable to "Joye M.
Neff" and specify in your note how you want the money to be split and she
will place the proper amount into each fund. Joye will keep track of the
money raised and report the progress each week.
This should be a lot of fun. We already have 96 items for this raffle!
Please remember that there is a "Pre-Holiday Fundraiser" portion with
fifteen items. The drawing for the "Pre-Holiday Fundraiser" will take
place on December 12th, which will allow Joye time to mail the items to the
lucky winners in time for them to use them for the holidays!
If you have items that you'd like to donate, I can accept them for future
fundraisers that I am planning or for the 2003 National Specialty Raffle,
which Pat Long and I are co-chairing this year in Long Beach, CA. In
fact, we really need items for the Specialty Raffle - please contact Joye
Neff for donations at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tickets are $1 each ~ or 6 tickets for $5 ~ or 14 tickets for $10. As
usual, I can accept foreign cheques with no extra fee charged by my bank
for converting to US Dollars. We are looking for everyone's support!! We
have some wonderful items in this fundraiser and I thank everyone who has
so generously donated items. Now let's see how much money we can collect
for each organization. Everyone can participate!! Show your support for
BARC and/or LOC by sending in your check today!!
Karen Pickel has done a HUGE amount of work putting together the website
for this Fundraiser. With 96 items to win, and complicated directions for
making donations because of the "Challenge" portion of the Fundraiser, it
has been a lot of work and I thank Karen from the bottom of my heart!! We
all owe her a "BIG THANK YOU" - just wait until you see this website:
http://www.overthefence.com/raffle/BARC/
Oh....and if you didn't win one of the gorgeous Berner paintings that
artist Willem Wijnberg, from the Netherlands, did for our AKC CHF
Fundraiser, you can try to win the one that he is painting right now for
this fundraiser. It is 10x14 inches and is based on a photograph of Fiona
Gordo's puppy girl, Eden, Gladsheim East O Eden, aged 7 weeks. It is item
#79 - we have so many wonderful items for this fundraiser - you really do
have to go check out the site!!!
Joye Neff and Winston (waiting for all the checks to arrive) (Samantha and
Ben)
Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh, PA
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