Ready

Website is done, letter is basically finished which means one thing... it's time to get going! I feel ready now to start going to stores and asking for donations. Hopefully, everything will be alright and the managers will feel generous because there is now way I'm raising $10,000 without some significant contributions from the big-name stores like costco and sobey's, etc. Mario has been helping a lot which is awesome, and just having someone to work with you on a project like this is EXTREMELY helpful. Like seriously. I really don't think these stores are going to donate much (if any) but God-willing, I hope that at some point I'll strike gold from a store or two! I mean it really is a great cause. They're not helping me, they're helping the needy, and that's a point I'm trying to stress on in my fundraising letter. Helping others is often in people's nature and I hope that this will be a big factor in contributing to this project. Business-wise, its not helpful for any of these stores to give any money to any cause so I won't be offended if they decide not to donate to a random eleventh grader working on a project. Really... I get it.