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PLEASE help the families in Conn, they will need SUPPORT

  • USMCAG said...

    Yea, that's a great idea.

    I'm in. but not for a generic fund.

    I will gladly contribute to a specific fund to that goes directly to the parents of these kids or to the school to go directly to those families.

    Ken Caracci

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  • MarineMountie said...

    Need to do this TMB style. A trusted member of the board collect the donations. Set a deadline. Once that deadline comes, the keeper of the money contacts someone first hand to send the donations to. That way you avoid the third party collections. You guys ever see the toy drives every Christmas that they do for St. Jude? People buy and send toys to one trusted poster. That posted then delivers all toys directly to St. Jude. Now I'm not sure if we have anyone on this board in the Connecticut area, so ours won't be that simple.

    Well Les started this thing. I trust him so let him collect the donations. Either him or USMCAG would be fine by me. Sounds like USMCAG would know the best way to set up an account to get the donations organized. I would think as long as our donations go to a centralized account that it would be easy enough to transfer electronically on said due date.

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  • texasfence said...

    I'm in. but not for a generic fund.

    I will gladly contribute to a specific fund to that goes directly to the parents of these kids or to the school to go directly to those families.

    I actually think USMCAG's idea of donating directly to the school is the way to go. I'm up for other options, but I personally think that it's the best way to do it.

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  • I can't Do much but I can do 100. If we didn't just get income cut in half I could do more! This right before xmas? How could anyone do this? I'm hurtin rt now

    bayoubengalfan4

  • bayoubengalfan4 said...

    I can't Do much but I can do 100. If we didn't just get income cut in half I could do more! This right before xmas? How could anyone do this? I'm hurtin rt now

    I can make some emails and phone calls to find a point of contact at the school.

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  • A PayPal account would be excellent.

    Just post it on the Geaux247 site and I am in!

    Ken Caracci

    texasfence

  • texasfence said...

    A PayPal account would be excellent.

    Just post it on the Geaux247 site and I am in!

    The plan will be to post it here and link it to all team sites. I believe that is correct anyways.

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  • Lesticals said...

    Yeah I hear you.. I'm just beyond pissed and was grasping for SOMETHING. Oh well, I tried.

    Yeah you did! Thx man.

    Man_A _War

  • I can either set up an account, or contact the school. I'll help in any way possible.

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    STOOBIE

  • STOOBIE said...

    I can either set up an account, or contact the school. I'll help in any way possible.

    Lets team up Stoobie. I'll set up an account and see if you can reach a point of contact at the school. Sound good?

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  • USMCAG said...

    Lets team up Stoobie. I'll set up an account and see if you can reach a point of contact at the school. Sound good?

    Sounds good. Have we got a blessing from Noah or JC?

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  • STOOBIE said...

    Sounds good. Have we got a blessing from Noah or JC?

    Good to go. I'll get ahold of JC.

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  • I messaged JC and Noah about an hour or 2 ago.. They'll probably get back at me in the AM

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  • Lesticals said...

    I messaged JC and Noah about an hour or 2 ago.. They'll probably get back at me in the AM

    Awesome man, great idea to help out. You're a good man.

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  • USMCAG said...

    Awesome man, great idea to help out. You're a good man.

    Just doing what anyone with any kind of sympathy/heart would do. This is all of us, I don't need credit for this.. This is ALL for the families and people involved and I thank you guys so much for helping. We have some good people on this board.

    Also, I changed the thread title and entire post since we laid the foundation of what to do... Will fix again when we have ore info.

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  • I'm still worried. Anyone think it would be cool to choose one of the families affected? Sending it to the school.... Just doesn't seem like it hits home with the families affected. What will the school do with that money? The families will have funerals, time off work to grieve, possible loss of job due to the stress/depression... You never know. If the money goes to the school... who really gets it?

    If we run a drive, I think we could raise a few thousand. I would like to set the bar at around $5000 if the whole network actually gets in on it. If we could hit that mark, maybe $1000 to 5 of the families directly from 247sports to their mailbox or whatever.

    Hey, just throwing it out there. If its the school, I'm still 100% behind it. Its just the time for throwing out feelers.

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  • MarineMountie said...

    I'm still worried. Anyone think it would be cool to choose one of the families affected? Sending it to the school.... Just doesn't seem like it hits home with the families affected. What will the school do with that money? The families will have funerals, time off work to grieve, possible loss of job due to the stress/depression... You never know. If the money goes to the school... who really gets it?

    If we run a drive, I think we could raise a few thousand. I would like to set the bar at around $5000 if the whole network actually gets in on it. If we could hit that mark, maybe $1000 to 5 of the families directly from 247sports to their mailbox or whatever.

    Hey, just throwing it out there. If its the school, I'm still 100% behind it. Its just the time for throwing out feelers.

    Yea, I'm cool with that. We would then know that it was directly affecting a family.

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  • MarineMountie said...

    I'm still worried. Anyone think it would be cool to choose one of the families affected? Sending it to the school.... Just doesn't seem like it hits home with the families affected. What will the school do with that money? The families will have funerals, time off work to grieve, possible loss of job due to the stress/depression... You never know. If the money goes to the school... who really gets it?

    If we run a drive, I think we could raise a few thousand. I would like to set the bar at around $5000 if the whole network actually gets in on it. If we could hit that mark, maybe $1000 to 5 of the families directly from 247sports to their mailbox or whatever.

    Hey, just throwing it out there. If its the school, I'm still 100% behind it. Its just the time for throwing out feelers.

    I would like to set up a Donation Fund to the Families affected. A pool and they can split up the money, maybe get more than just this board.. Once a Donation fund like that is setup.. I'm sure we can get a lot of people, not just on this board, on other places to donate also.

    This is why I'm waiting for a day or 2 to find out what to do because every page, someone has a good idea.. It's getting better and better though so lets keep thinking on this.

    Just as long as we do something to help the families involved, I'll be good.

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    Lesticals

  • Lesticals said...

    I would like to set up a Donation Fund to the Families affected. A pool and they can split up the money, maybe get more than just this board.. Once a Donation fund like that is setup.. I'm sure we can get a lot of people, not just on this board, on other places to donate also.

    This is why I'm waiting for a day or 2 to find out what to do because every page, someone has a good idea.. It's getting better and better though so lets keep thinking on this.

    Just as long as we do something to help the families involved, I'll be good.

    I think that's the same thing MM is saying, to split it amongst the families.

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  • USMCAG said...

    I think that's the same thing MM is saying, to split it amongst the families.

    Yeah he had a great idea.. I was thinking the same things but couldn't put it into words so eloquently as Marine ha.

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  • USMCAG said...

    I think that's the same thing MM is saying, to split it amongst the families.

    I would say in $1,000 increments. That gives them a small cushion on some of the expenses coming up. We raise $5,000 247sports will directly help 5 families.

    We aren't world savers here. We can't help 28 families. That is unrealistic to even think.

    Its just shady sending donations like this to third parties and just trusting it gets to where you intended it to go. That is why TMB does their toy drive the way they do it. Someone personally hands all toys to St. Jude. That same person also does special requests to certain children. One of the guys got a little boy an Alabama jersey, hat, and football. The boy took a picture in his new outfit and ball, and it was the most precious picture I had ever seen.

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  • MarineMountie said...

    I would say in $1,000 increments. That gives them a small cushion on some of the expenses coming up. We raise $5,000 247sports will directly help 5 families.

    We aren't world savers here. We can't help 28 families. That is unrealistic to even think.

    Its just shady sending donations like this to third parties and just trusting it gets to where you intended it to go. That is why TMB does their toy drive the way they do it. Someone personally hands all toys to St. Jude. That same person also does special requests to certain children. One of the guys got a little boy an Alabama jersey, hat, and football. The boy took a picture in his new outfit and ball, and it was the most precious picture I had ever seen.

    I like that idea the best. Five families, 1k each. We can do that.

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  • MarineMountie said...

    I would say in $1,000 increments. That gives them a small cushion on some of the expenses coming up. We raise $5,000 247sports will directly help 5 families.

    We aren't world savers here. We can't help 28 families. That is unrealistic to even think.

    Its just shady sending donations like this to third parties and just trusting it gets to where you intended it to go. That is why TMB does their toy drive the way they do it. Someone personally hands all toys to St. Jude. That same person also does special requests to certain children. One of the guys got a little boy an Alabama jersey, hat, and football. The boy took a picture in his new outfit and ball, and it was the most precious picture I had ever seen.

    We can set up a 247sports Donation Fund and let a willing Staff member handle tBB Paypal.. Or a trusted member here.. The key though, like I think you meant, is finding someone in Conn. that will handle where and to whom the money we donate ends up in the right hands.

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  • Also, we should find the Single Mother/Father or people that would need the most help with Funeral Funds, Therapy and all kinds of other expenses.

    Or did you guys want to Randomly select the Families? I pray no one had 2 of their kids gunned down, if so, they would be on the top of the list.

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  • Lesticals said...

    We can set up a 247sports Donation Fund and let a willing Staff member handle tBB Paypal.. Or a trusted member here.. The key though, like I think you meant, is finding someone in Conn. that will handle where and to whom the money we donate ends up in the right hands.

    That's the only kicker. How the money gets from the bank/paypal to the hands of who its intended to go to. I don't think Connecticut is represented on tBB. Could be wrong on that. It may be easier to write some sort of check, and mail it to the families. That way it goes straight to their mailbox. Put it in a Hallmark card

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