Hey Guys! We just came back from our very first Financial Blogging Conference (which for me, J$, is huge because my entire online personal finance family was there!), and we had the honor of kicking it all off together with a service project :) A perfect way for everyone to get to know each other more and share some love at the same time.
Jill, our first Love Drop recipient, recommended we help out the organization Phil’s Friends – a center providing support and hope to those affected by cancer – and it worked out incredibly! Our goals were to show up with 50 volunteers and $500 in cash to help them out, and we ended up with over 70 awesome souls and $1200 in cash – incredible!!
Here’s what one volunteer had to say about it:
“Loved this!! What a great way to meet people before the event and give back to the community. Excellent. It was wonderful to be able to help their organization, especially with something that would have taken them days to accomplish. We did it in a few hours and it not only didn’t cost them a penny, but we were able to make a significant financial contribution. I would love to do something again next year.”
If you were one of the people who came out, THANK YOU! This was the first event Love Drop has organized outside of our own stuff here, and to say we were overwhelmed with support is an understatement :) We’ll of course continue to do our monthly Drops each month, but we wanted to try something new and we were super excited we did. Maybe we’ll do more?
If you want to learn more about the FINCON/LOVE DROP partnership, click here. Have a great week!
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PS: That video up there is a quick 3 min recap of how it all went down – check it out :)
