|
Title: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: Hans on July 07, 2010, 11:31:54 PM Hello Fellow Paddlers, I’m writing to see if you might be able to take two minutes to a) help a fellow dragon boating organization out and b) see what, if any, viral marketing power the dragon boat community might have. THE QUICK SUMMARY : *Chase Bank is running a contest on Facebook where small non-profit organizations can receive a portion (up to $250,000) of a total $5,000,000 available based on votes received via its Chase Community Giving application. *The California Dragon Boat Association (www.CDBA.org) which puts on the San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival (www.SFdragonboat.com) and which also runs the largest youth dragon boat program in the United States (at no charge to the High School members) is hoping to win a portion of these funds. Certainly many of you have come and/or are coming down to our festival this year and know that we very much care about our sport and the DB community. *This contest represents a golden opportunity to get money (which will support our youth program and hopefully go toward replacing our race fleet for our dragon boat race when that time comes) into our sport with MINIMAL time and effort required on your part. *Next year, another Dragon Boat organization (or multiple organizations) could get this money if we help each other out (previous winners are no longer eligible). Let’s see what our DB community can do ! HOW TO HELP: Votes must be made by the Deadline on Monday July 12, 2010 Please: 1) Log on to Facebook. 2) Search for “Chase Community Giving” 3) Type in California Dragon Boat Association in the box where it says Charity Name (note: you must type it out CDBA won't bring it up). 4) Click on "Get Started to Vote" 5) Request for Permission page appears - Click “Allow” 6) "Like Chase Community Giving" pops-up - Click "Like" 7) Click Close 8) Click “Vote Now” 9) Get all of the hundreds of FaceBook friends you have to do the same! *Note that steps 4 and 5 can be reversed after the voting deadline for those of you who hate apps. Thanks much for reading this and for your time and support. Let's see what we can do! I'll report back and look forward to see many of you on the water soon (in Hong Kong, Long Beach and, of course, San Francisco) ! Best, Hans Wu CDBA Race Director – www.SFdragonboat.com Dragon Warriors Captain – www.DragonWarriors.org Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: NFW on July 07, 2010, 11:45:33 PM a bunch of clicks to help out our SF friends, will do! msn(u)
Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: Hans on July 07, 2010, 11:57:26 PM Thanks ! By the way ... to me NFW means "No Freaking Way (or some thing like that)" as in:
"No Freaking way... how did Dragon Hearts Magnum get so freaking (or something like that) fast ? And why are they coming to San Francisco ?" :D Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: pammywc on July 08, 2010, 08:52:45 AM done - hope to see you next season
Splash Test Dragons :D Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: Martini on July 08, 2010, 09:17:48 AM Consider it done!
Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: puppy on July 08, 2010, 11:44:06 AM As most of you know, Dragon Boatting can be expensive but if the CDBA did get some of the funding, it will go to a worthy group of friends who can make a difference to so many different lives.
Currently, CDBA is ranked 59th in the standings (59 CALIFORNIA DRAGON BOAT ASSOCIATION San Francisco, CA) with 1456 votes. The Top group is HP ALLIANCE INC Somerville, MA with 19,744 votes. First thought is wwwooooaaahhhh.. that is a huge difference. But all it takes is one more vote and we will be closer. There is only 4 more days left. It only took 3 minutes of my time.... Let's see how big our community is...... SPREAD THE WORD.... Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: Little on July 08, 2010, 12:15:09 PM Oh yeah! FOR SURE!
HELP IS ON ITS WAY! Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: NFW on July 09, 2010, 02:54:40 PM Thanks ! By the way ... to me NFW means "No Freaking Way (or some thing like that)" as in: "No Freaking way... how did Dragon Hearts Magnum get so freaking (or something like that) fast ? And why are they coming to San Francisco ?" :D LOL! Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: puppy on July 11, 2010, 10:04:26 PM With only 22 hours left to closing...the Dragon Boat Community is going strong. CDBA has earned Votes: 2065 and is ranked 47th overall Nice job...but it's not over, let's see if we can get a few more votes in. :Cheers: As most of you know, Dragon Boatting can be expensive but if the CDBA did get some of the funding, it will go to a worthy group of friends who can make a difference to so many different lives. Currently, CDBA is ranked 59th in the standings (59 CALIFORNIA DRAGON BOAT ASSOCIATION San Francisco, CA) with 1456 votes. The Top group is HP ALLIANCE INC Somerville, MA with 19,744 votes. First thought is wwwooooaaahhhh.. that is a huge difference. But all it takes is one more vote and we will be closer. There is only 4 more days left. It only took 3 minutes of my time.... Let's see how big our community is...... SPREAD THE WORD.... Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: puppy on September 23, 2010, 03:15:26 PM Congratulations San Francisco - CDBA
They received $20K, from Chase. They have purchased a new Dragon Boat, a storage container for paddles/jackets and new paddles/PFD's Without all your votes, CDBA would have not have won THANK YOU :dance: Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: NFW on September 23, 2010, 03:23:04 PM Whoa! score! Nice to see the db community can help each other out.
Title: Re: Please Help the SF Dragon Boat Festival Out! Post by: Hans on September 28, 2010, 10:59:11 AM I never properly thanked all of you who took a moment out of your busy schedules to help a fellow DB organization out. The California Dragon Boat Association (www.cdba.org) is extremely grateful for your support and we plan to use this funding to further strengthen our dragon boat races and programs. Hopefully, you all can come on down to our TI race (SFdragonboat.com) to see what we are doing firsthand !
Cheers, Hans CDBA - Race Director |