GiveForward

Over the past year at GiveForward, we’ve seen that there are often a flurry of donations in the two or three days before a fundraiser ends.  This happens because donors feel a greater sense of urgency towards the end of a fundraiser.  In other words, all those people you have asked to donate and who have procrastinated for weeks (or months) often seem to get their act together right before the proverbial  buzzer.

To help maximize the amount of money you raise for your cause, you’ll want to make sure you reach out to all your procrastinating amigos and family members in the final days before your fundraiser ends.   Here’s what we suggest you do to finish your fundraiser with a surge of donations: read more…

I will publicly admit here that I am not a “kids person.” I think children are cute. I think they’re cuter when I can hand them back to someone when they need a diaper changed or are covered in whatever they were supposed to be ingesting for lunch. As such, I tend to not be too fond of parenting blogs as they tend to dote on their children, strollers, placentas, etc. “Aunt” Becky of Mommy Wants Vodka-fame is the exception. If the title of her blog wasn’t enough to pique your interest, just read one post. You’ll be hooked.

She doesn’t write in a blind “my-children-can-do-no-wrong” daze (she affectionately has referred to her children as crotch parasites) AND her posts aren’t always about parenting or children at all. She clearly adores her children, however, as is evident by her unwavering support for March of Dimes. Being the mother of a daughter who survived a neural tube defect, she understands the pain birth defects can cause and how lucky she is to have a child survive one. You can read her post on why she’s a March of Dimes mothers and tons of other ways to get involved here.

As such, Mommy Wants Vodka is this week’s recipient of the coveted GiveForward Totally Awesome Blog Award!

Word on her blog is she’s shopping around a book deal so hopefully we’ll see some Mommy Wants Vodka in print some day soon! Congrats, Becky!