Please help a fellow runner win $25,000 for charity (it will only cost you a minute of time)
see below
Thanks
Fw: 12/12/10
For the past few years, I’ve volunteered for a charity called Foothill Unity Center. This Monrovia-based food bank serves 11 cities in the San Gabriel Valley, giving away tons of food to some 4000 families each year. In addition to the Center’s normal food
distribution that takes place three times a week, they also have special Thanksgiving and Holiday food distribution programs, during which they provide families with huge food baskets with all the holiday trimmings, plus clothing and toys for the children. In August, their Back to School program provides local K-12th grade children of low-income families with the clothing and supplies they need to start the new school year. This past year they provided for nearly 2,300 children. The Center also provides health and social services to those in need. If you’d like to learn more, please visit the website www.foothillunitycenter.org
I recently found out about a contest called Movement Challenge, sponsored by New Balance Shoes. The person who gets the most points based on races run during 2010 will win $25,000 for his or her favorite charity. I’ve decided to enter the contest on behalf of Foothill Unity Center and I am currently in 38th place, but I have a looong
way to go to get to 1st place (the person currently in the lead is ahead of me by about 250,000 points)! However, there’s a simple way you can help me, and it won’t cost you a penny; just a minute of your time. One of the ways for me to accumulate points is by getting others to sign up. I get 100 points for each person who signs up as a Runner (I only get 10 points if someone signs up as a Fan).
If you could take a minute and go to the website (http://www.movementchallenge.com/) and sign up, I would really appreciate it. Just click on the Sign Up As A Runner button. You’ll provide your name, e-mail, create a password, and you’ll need to copy and paste the following referral code, so I get credited with the 100 points: be18d671-f5ee-4a88-b1b3-0ae582cdec6f
Unless you want to receive e-mail from New Balance, make sure you don’t check the opt in box. Next, you’ll enter your age, sex, address, and the cause you want to support (which can be any of the ones listed, as you’re not trying to win the contest, you’re just trying to help me win).
Foothill Unity Center is a truly worthy cause that could really use the money, so let’s start adding up some points for them! It would be a huge help if you’d be willing to pass this e-mail on to everyone on your mailing lists (family, friends, co-workers, etc). If someone wants to help out but is not a runner, they can click on the Sign Up As A Fan button and all they have to do is enter their name, e-mail, a password, my referral code
(be18d671-f5ee-4a88-b1b3-0ae582cdec6f), and make sure to not opt in unless they want to get mail from New Balance, and they’re done! I’ll still get 10 points this way, which is certainly better than nothing.
The contest ends at the end of the month, so please act now—and thanks so much for doing this, Anibal!
All the best,
David
