Awesome Charity Fund Raiser

A good friend of mine sent me the below attached link yesterday afternoon. It is for a company that is marketing a new, natural, no fructose corn syrup, fruit drink line. They are hosting what they call The Pink Lemonade Brigade. My only disappointment is that I did not get this information earlier as I would have loved to get it out to others before the cut off date, which is today. How it works is this...... You sign up on the website and choose a charity of your choice. We chose the local humane society. The company then sends you everything you need to set up a lemonade stand, including heavy duty cardboard stand, paint pens, company stickers, and 100 cans of their pink lemonade, All For FREE! The only stipulation is that you must sell the lemonade on June 21st and then give all proceeds to your chosen charity. That is it! How cool is that? What a neat way to get the kids involved in doing a bit of charity fund raising. Had we had a bit more time to think about it, we might have chosen a different charity, but I needed to get our registration in and the humane society is a good cause. I wanted to choose a local charity so that the kids could actually hand deliver the money we earn. Little Man wanted to give to a charity that deals with sick children but I am just not aware of any that are local. We are anxiously awaiting our delivery so we can get started on designing our stand. We are going to go down to the humane society on Monday and talk with them and see if they have any literature or posters that we can incorporate into the design. We also need to speak with a few of the local stores to see if they will allow us to set up in front of their entrance. The website suggests doing this to maximize selling potential. Two friends in town are also participating and we are hoping to get the newspaper to come and take a few pictures of all the kids at work on their stands. The boys are really looking forward to this activity. I will make sure to post photos of our stand creation and selling day as they occur.
http://www.drinkcrayons.com/pinklemonadebrigade/