Category Archives: Fundraisers

CapitalOne will add $10 to your donation to Vulnerable Children!

Posted on March 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Thanks so much to a donor who sent us this news. Until the end of the month, CapitalOne will donate $10 ON TOP OF YOUR DONATION! to a registered charity through CanadaHelps!

We have a lot of amazing projects on the go, and would really appreciate you making a small donation and help us take advantage of this fab offer from CapitalOne. All you have to do is take a small quiz and they will contribute $10 to Vulnerable Children Society!

  • Take the Charity Fraud Awareness Quiz!!!
  • Make a donation  to VULNERABLE CHILDREN SOCIETY at the end of the quiz, via the link to CanadaHelps.org.
  • Capital One Canada will add $10 to your donation!

Why is CapitalOne doing this? From the CanadaHelps website:

To educate the public about charity fraud, Capital One Canada and CanadaHelps are teaming up during Fraud Prevention Month for the third annual Charity Fraud Awareness Quiz. This quiz will help participants identify the signs of charity fraud to hopefully avoid these malicious schemes. During the month of March, Capital One will also be topping up individual donations made through CanadaHelps.org by $10, up to a total of $25,000 for Canadian charities.

The online Charity Fraud Awareness Quiz is designed to inform Canadians about the risk of charity fraud and how to prevent it. Accessible at http://www.canadahelps.org/CharityFraud/LandingPage.aspx, every participant who completes the quiz will be eligible to have their personal donation made via Canadahelps topped up by $10, thanks to Capital One Canada.

Capital One and CanadaHelps offer the following charity fraud prevention tips:

  • Make sure the charity is registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and provides you with their charitable registration number. CanadaHelps.org only lists charities registered with the CRA
  • Ask to see a charity’s financial statements. These should be readily available to anyone who asks and give you a sense of how the charity spends their money
  • Understand the impact the charity has and what difference they make in the community. Charities should be able to give you clear outcomes of the programs or services they provide
  • Research the causes you want to support and how much of your budget you want to donate to charity. You will feel less pressured to give when solicited if you have already planned your giving
  • Avoid any charity that pressures you into making a donation or isn’t open to sharing more information about their organization

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Last minute gifts – no problem! Give some LOVE!

Posted on December 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We can send e-greetings and printable donation cards (the perfect stocking stuffers!) to you right up until Christmas Eve! It’s as easy as 1,2,3!

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Genna, a December gift of love for a vulnerable child is sure to delight and warm the heart.

Show your loved one that you care about them, and about the children in Ethiopia at the same time. Donate to Vulnerable Children Society, or sponsor a Family, or Community Child through our House 2 House program in your friend or family member’s name.

It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!

  1. Click the link below
    Donate Now Through CanadaHelps.org!
    Complete your monthly donation. You will receive your tax receipts directly from CanadaHelps.
    Please click the button that shares your name, address and email with the charity, as we really want to know who you are and be able to send you updates on the child and newsletters!
    Thanks so much!
  2. Send us an email info(at)vulnerablechildren.ca [replace the (at) with @]. Include your name, and the gift recipient’s name, full address and email, as well as any special instructions.
  3. If we receive your donation email before December 15th, we will send out a paper postcard informing the recipient of your kind gift. If we receive your donation after December 15th, we will send out an e-card to their email address on December 25th (unless you instruct otherwise.)

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Melkam Genna!

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Add a “Gift of Love” badge to your blog! Help us fundraise for Vulnerable Children!

Posted on December 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Holiday gifts are a very important source of revenue for Vulnerable Children Society. Did you know, $100 can feed 10 children injera (the staple bread in Ethiopia) for a month? What Canadians spent on eating lunch out for a week can provide the basic food and shelter necessities for a deserving child for a month. Every bit counts! Plus, people really appreciate a gift that they can connect with and know changes a child’s life.

You can help us fundraise for Vulnerable Children Society by putting a badge promoting our holiday gift giving on your website or blog.
We appreciate it so much! Here are the simple instructions:

  1. Download a holiday gift or sponsorship badge (slightly larger than shown):
      
       
  2. IMPORTANT: Link the badge to : http://vulnerablechildren.ca/donate/holiday-gifts

ALTERNATIVELY, you can paste this html code into a widget or onto a page in the html area:

<span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><a href="http://vulnerablechildren.ca/donate/holiday-gifts" target="_blank"><img title="VCS Holiday Giving Small Icon" src="http://vulnerablechildrensociety.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/vcs-holiday-giving-small-icon.jpg" alt="" width="172" height="130" /></a></em></span>

And if you still have a little shopping left to do yourself, please sponsor a child or make a donation in your loved one’s name!

Thank you so much for your help!!!!

NOTE: All one-time donations to Vulnerable Children Society are put into our project account, and used for our current projects. Over the last year, these projects have included the administration of the House 2 House program, and drought relief food aid. In the coming year we will be helping furnish an educational centre in rural Ethiopia and fill it with books. We are 100% volunteer-run.Our membership fees, and $1 of each monthly sponsorships payment, cover Vulnerable Children Society administrative costs.

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Give a Gift of LOVE: Make a donation to Vulnerable Children in your loved one’s name!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Genna, a December gift of love for a vulnerable child is sure to delight and warm the heart.

Show your loved one that you care about them, and about the children in Ethiopia at the same time. Donate to Vulnerable Children Society, or sponsor a Family, or Community Child through our House 2 House program in your friend or family member’s name.

It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3!

  1. Simply click on the appropriate icon below, and complete your gift with Paypal, debit or credit card.

    to donate one-time
    to sponsor a child to sponsor a family
  2. Send us an email info(at)vulnerablechildren.ca [replace the (at) with @]. Include your name, and the gift recipient’s name, full address and email, as well as any special instructions.
  3. If we receive your donation email before December 15th, we will send out a paper postcard informing the recipient of your kind gift. If we receive your donation after December 15th, we will send out an e-card to their email address on December 25th (unless you instruct otherwise.)

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Joyous Kwanzaa! Melkam Genna!

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The Other Ethiopia – 10% of Photobook Proceeds Donated to Vulnerable Children

Posted on October 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A long-time supporter of Vulnerable Children Society Tamara Mickel has self-published a lovely photobook entitled “The Other Ethiopia.”

The wonderful thing about this project is that 10% of Tam’s book sales will be donated to Vulnerable Children Society. Isn’t that awesome! Please preview the book and maybe even purchase a copy! (What a great holiday gift!)

A little more info about the book:

This is a photo journal of our summer spent in Ethiopia. It is my hope that through this book, people will see for themselves that Ethiopia is so much more than we are normally shown. More than famine, dust and dispair. Ethiopia possesses tremendous beauty, vibrant culture, and incredible resilience.
A portion of the proceeds will go to Vulnerable Children’s Society, an organization that helps children and their families in Ethiopia.

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Sisters ask for donations instead of birthday gifts

Posted on August 16, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Two sisters in BC have a great idea – they each asked for their birthday party goers to bring a cash donation for Vulnerable Children Society instead of birthday gifts. The elder sister’s gift arrived just in time for our drought relief campaign, and her mother asked that it be directed to purchasing food aid for Ethiopian families.

Thanks so much to both these gracious young ladies (and their mom!) for their generosity and bright birthday ideas.

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Posted in Drought Crisis, Ethiopia, Fundraisers