We could really use the help of you devoted blog readers to reach our goal of raising $5,000 for the first ever Great Apes Giving Day on October 14th.
This 24-hour online event, sponsored by the Arcus Foundation, the Greenbaum Foundation and our friends at the the Anti-American Vivisection Society, is aimed at raising awareness and funds for several North American sanctuaries caring for great apes. It’s a pretty cool idea, and we are happy to be participating!
With the friendly competition among the sanctuaries, we are a little nervous because we are one of the smallest and the newest sanctuary participating in the day, but it’s true that our loyal supporters have the biggest hearts!
There are three main ways that you can participate:
- Make a donation. Your donation today or any day before the 14th will be counted toward our total on giving day. Or you can wait to make your donation on the 14th, which will increase our chances of winning cash prizes (golden tickets) given out each hour. Learn all about prizes and the rules for the day here. If you’d like to make a matching challenge donation to make things more exciting, let us know in the comments below, or email [email protected]. A donation of $100 pays for a month of blog posts – that’s a pretty good deal when you think about 30 days worth of videos and photos and stories of your chimpanzee family, isn’t it? Imagine if every blog reader donated $100!
- Create your own fundraising page and fundraise for the sanctuary! It’s pretty easy to set up a page (take a look at these tips to get started), and we would be happy to help by answering questions, providing photos, and whatever else you need. Create your page today and start letting your potentials donors know about it!
- Share the CSNW fundraising page and encourage others to donate. Spread the word via email and social media so more people know about the day and Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest’s participation in this online fundraising event!
Mark your calendars now for October 14th and check our page that day to see how close we are to our goal of raising $5,000!
Thank you, as always, for your support and dedication to Foxie, Annie, Jody, Missy, Jamie, Burrito, and Negra!
Is it better to give on October 14th instead of now? Will it help CSNW in the long run if we wait to donate then?
My calendar is marked!
Thanks, Kathleen! The one advantage to waiting is that there will be one donation randomly chosen each hour that will get an extra $200 added to it – these are the golden ticket donations. So, the more donations made on our page in a given hour, particularly if there are relatively few other donations made to other pages in that hour, the greater the odds will be for CSNW to be randomly chosen.
All donations, whether they are made now or on October 14th, will count towards our total.
What a fun idea. You can count on me! Good Luck! In the end you are all great organizations and chimps win!
I don’t understand.
Mathematically, random means “by chance; without order; not able to be predicted within a structural paradigm”. So how can your chances for getting a golden ticket donation increase?
The way you’ve stated your answer means that there *must* be some sort of criteria or condition a sanctuary needs to meet before you will be considered; conditional statement in logic: IF this condition is met, THEN you will be considered for this random augmentation. But otherwise, that would make it mathematically impossible to be truly random.
Not trying to be a smart-ass, just a little confused with these terms and definitions. I’m pursuing double doctorates in Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics, so when I hear the word “random”, and work with it every day, my mind goes to the way we define the word “random”. 🙂
Carla – each hour “resets the clock” on the golden tickets. So, for example, say there are 20 donations made during a given hour to the different sanctuaries participating: if none of those 20 donations were for CSNW during that hour, we would have a zero percent chance of winning that hour’s $200 golden ticket. If, however, four of the 20 donations during that hour were for CSNW, we would have a one in five chance of winning that hour’s golden ticket. And, of course, if all 20 of the donations were for CSNW during that given hour, we’d have a 100% chance of winning. Hope that clears it up 100% 🙂
Ah, so I was right: it’s not based on being truly random, but more on probabilities and percentages as dictated by the amount given in a fixed frame of reference. The more someone gives to you, the higher your percentage chances that you will be rewarded for those givers, thus increasing the probability that you will be rewarded. It’s statistics and not random variables. Yes–now you’re speaking my language. 😉
Thank-you for the quantification.