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December 2009 A group of Telosa employees joined Team RMH to run or walk a half marathon in November to raise money for Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. As with any such fund raiser, it involved asking our friends and family to contribute something toward our run or walk. The technology has made this a simple process. We each had a website where our friends could easily use their credit cards to make a donation. We added our own pictures and fund raising pitches to our pages, and we could watch the totals grow day by day. There's even a thermometer that showed our progress towards our individual goals. The Ronald McDonald House put together a training schedule, outlining
our daily running/walking routine each day leading up to the event.
Some of us went out at lunch and ran around the tree-shaded neighborhoods
of Palo Alto. Others preferred to train before or after work, or
maybe not at all. We didn't keep track of each other, but we each
were acutely aware of the challenge of 13 miles and the shortness
of time between the start of training and race day! But the biggest challenge for some of us seemed to be getting up the courage to send out those emails to bring in the donations. This was surprising, really, considering how we each spend our days working with development staff at a myriad of organizations across the world, all raising money. We reminded ourselves of the basics: no one will give unless you ask them to; you are not begging on behalf of yourself but inviting others to join in supporting a worthy cause; almost everyone is generous and gives money to something so why not this? This experience reminded us that raising money is not as easy as it looks. But in spite of that, we have managed toraise over $40,000. Not bad! We set ourselves a big goal: to raise money for the families who use the Ronald McDonald House while their children are patients at our local children's hospital. But, also to have a great time together - doing good while having fun. So far it's working. Susan
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