Charity Fundraiser

  Friday marked the day of our big charity fundraiser, which was aimed at raising money for Generation Excel.  Since Renee's official was through a charity, she was obligated to raise $3500 in order to uphold her end of the bargain.  While we have been getting tons of donations from our close family & friends, you realize very quickly that $3500 is a lot of money to come up with!!  At the time of the fundraiser, we were about 36% of the way to our goal with a total of $1250 raised.
   Our fundraiser took place at the Atlantic Beer Garden in the Seaport District and consistent of a raffle in which we raffled off tons of gift cards and services that were donated to us free of cost from local businesses.  Between charging $10 at the door and then selling raffle tickets we were able to raise nearly $1000.  The best part of the whole night was when we found out that one of our friend's companies is actually willing to match the donation ... which basically means that we were able to raise a total of $2000!!!  Between what we had already raised and the funds we got from the fundraiser we are essentially at our goal.
The success of our fundraiser is due totally to our amazing group of friends & coworkers as well as the multiple businesses that were willing to donate to us!  It couldn't have gone better! 

Renee and I working the raffle table.

All of the prizes being raffled off.

One arm's length of raffle tickets for $10

Picture of Patrick Malone, who was the winner of the most desired prize in the raffle ... a free twosome to Granite Links Golf Course.  He is also an avid reader of this blog.