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Shameless plug; Raising $ for special needs adoption expenses

Posted by artsfish • 1/15/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: adoption, artisan, artsfish, fundraiser, jewelry, Shop

Our 2 adoptions (one completed, one in process) have incurred expenses near $30,000. Many families have fund raisers or bake sales. We sell our handcrafted artisan jewelry!

Adoption & medical expenses are for the wealthy, which unfortunately most artists (like us) are not!

Our kids had a rough start in life, they were each abandoned in China due to a correctable congenital condition called clubfoot. We're dedicated to giving them the best life possible, but in order to do that we need to reduce the debt we incurred to finance the adoptions of our two special needs kids, Kai Dong and Ming Qiao.

Their story; www.artsfish.com/Salon/?page_id=3

We created an online shop at www.artsfish.com to help us give our kids a chance at a brighter future.

My blog, The Artsfish Salon (www.artsfish.com/Salon) is an extension of our online shop.

We're happy to accept contributions, but what we'd really like is customers!

Thanks
Cherie

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1/15/08

kellybax

Cherie,

I can help you get some customers. I write a blog flugpo-blog.blogspot.com/ that promotes a site called Flugpo.com. Flugpo is an wonderful online community that also has free classified ads. If you register at Flugpo (it is free and just takes a minute) and place this exact post as a classified ad, I will then put it on the blog as well for added exposure. Our posts are Dugg and Stumbled so you could potentially be seen by thousands. Also, my blog Freelancer For Hire has the RSS feed from the Flugpo blog so once I put your ad there, it will also show up on my blog..... so that is three places for it to be seen. Hope to see you at flugpo and I hope this will help you.

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1. 1/15/08
  
  artsfish
  
  Hi Kelly, I followed your suggestion thanks so much :-)
1/16/08

artsfish

Updating with screenshot of The Artsfish Design Studio

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1/16/08

kellybax

Don't forget, you have to place it as a classified ad before I can feature it on the blog

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1. 1/16/08
  
  artsfish
  
  Hi Kelly, I placed a classified yesterday, perhaps I did something incorrect - it shows under my profile in flugpo, but I don't find it listed
1/16/08

MagneticPortal

I can't say that this works for me, but it claims to have worked for others.

magneticportal.com/fundraising.pdf should help you find alternative ways of raising money for your cause.
It has all the proper credentials needed to promote any fundraising effort.

I'm not very good at promoting anything, so it hasn't worked for me, yet.
That doesn't mean it can't work for you.

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