I am at the Oregon Coast, and I was walking on the beach tonight, with my camera and my Crowdrise flag. I came across a little girl and her great mom. The girl is 10 years old and has down sydrome. Clasicllay my dog, Ryder, is really skittish and won’t let most kids approach him because they’re really fast and loud and he scares easily. This girl was really gentle. She asked from afar what his name was. First, she picked up his poop bag that was about 10 feet away, asking what it was and gave it a great smell. Ryder looked at her, curious. Then she asked if he wanted to play and I told her that he will chase any stick and so she found one and threw it, she had a great arm. He played with her for a half hour. She asked a ton of questions, not just about his poop bag – she let that one go, at the urging of mom. She asked what the Crowdrise flag was, waving it around, Ryder romping around with her. I told her it was for fundraising. Her mom was reluctantly interested. The young girl was just playing stick and smiling – so was Ryder. They were having a quiet, great time.
Her mom told me that she thought of fundraising for her daughter a zillion times to get her enrolled in swimming, gymnastics and endless trips to the beach her daughter loves so much, but she had too much pride to ask and not enough money to do it herself. The “ask” for for donations is so tough. I told her that people love to help, love to donate, they love a cause, a face, a help and Crowdrise gives that platform for someone to tell their story and donate or not donate.
Her ears perked, still suspicious. But she knew she had a story to tell, a ten-year old story to tell and that she could easily create an online fundraising page. Not reluctantly, I invited her up to my cottage to show her my fundraising page, and show her how easy it was to create her story on her very own fundraising page on Crowdrise. I talked to her about how shy I am but how the very difficult “ask” turns into a few thousand dollars into a few weeks into a swimming class that’s so great for her daughter who was clearly having so much fun with Ryder, now putting peanut butter into his Kong.
The return on a fundraising page online is as rewarding on Crowdrise as it was for me to watch her play with my dog. Her daughter is gentle, something I could see through my dog in ten minutes, which was the same amount of time it took for her to create her fundraising page, by my side. Fast friends. Fast community. Fast donations. Fast, sponsored, swimming classes. All of these things are a lot easier than we think. Go Farrah and Go Crowdrise.
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