If there is anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area with suggestions on local companies to contact for donation requests, please let me know! This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thanks!
Sadly, as you will find out, you'll be lucky to get 10-15% replies, even if they are negatory in nature. You would think in this day and age of computers, even if a company is big, to maybe even send a form letter saying sorry, we can't donate at this time. Specially the ones where you have to write big proposals to ask for a donation.
I've sent out about 1000 this year and I think I was lucky to get even 100 replies back, even in email form.
This list has been so helpful to me! Although many of the sites listed here didn't give us donations, we were lucky with Keurig, Ticket Liquidator, NY Skyride and Chelsea Piers. Our best success came from going to the "contact" links for local businesses and others, and just sending donation requests. Simon Pearce is now focusing on Vermont because of the hurricane.
We had no luck with hotels or airlines, or vacation homes at all. Does anyone have hints on how to get those?
For those who tried B.R. Guest for restaurant donations, did you get any notification from them regarding donation status? It's been more than a month since we requested a donation.
@ Donna C.
Mu son's elementary school actually had the state legal games of chance control commission along with non uniformed police officers and willing fathers to walk around to make sure they weren't dumping tickets, we had to put one ticket at a time. Also, any pre-sale tickets had to picked up the night of the auction and they had officers in the parking lot to make sure people weren't finding out the colors and getting tickets from their cars. Apparently it was a ring of mothers in our area that went around and did this to sell the won items on ebay.
A lot of is were pretty upset that this was going on- that is horrible to do to any charity but especially your kid's school.
