You guys are awesome. We've packed 477,576 meals together. We've worked countless man-hours, inhaled vegetarian chicken and soy powder until we're all vitamin- and protein-fortified, we've yelled goofy cheers, dumped goods through a funnel with no bag on the end of it, flung rice across the boxing table, on and on and on. And fed over 1,300 children for an entire year.
So I feel like I can be honest with you.
It looks like we're going to be able to cover the cost of the 270,864 meals we just packed a couple weekends ago. Congratulations! That's $46,046.88. That's no small feat.
Last time, when we set out to pack 100,000 meals, we committed to $17,000. We ended up with about $23,000!
But you know what? A lot of that came from just a few people.
We are SO lucky to have a couple of people that are really on board and excited about fund raising and giving sacrificially. But IF we're going to do HALF A MILLION MEALS in September, we're going to ALL have to pitch in!
The beautiful thing about FMSC is that as the number of meals grows, so does the number of people. That means whether we do 100K or 100 million meals, ideally, every volunteer still packs only $40 worth of food. That's manageable, guys. It really is.
So start thinking now how you can raise that donation, or how you can go above and beyond and be able to sponsor other people that really can't give - little kids, elderly, underprivileged - for the next event! Those few generous people can't keep up with how fast we're growing, we need everybody!
Have faith! Be bold! Get creative! Don't just give what you can spare, give something up! I bet you'll even enjoy it.
Thanks guys,
Abbey
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