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• Here's a Idea that I came up with that I really think could help alot of animals and people , I have been sending this exact email to various Universities, please read it an offer ANY sugestions you might have. Ok here it is "Hello, I'm a student that has been recently thinking about ways to help less fortunate people and animals and. I have come up with an idea that I think could really impact thousands and hopefully millions of lives. Additionally it will raise money for the athletes providing the charitable services. It started with an idea I had for my rugby team to raise money: I proposed the idea of walking dogs for money, because I think animal rights are not nearly as equivalent as human rights in our society? we would raise money for our team by fund-raising with the idea that for every dollar donated to the team we would walk one dog at the local shelter. This works time wise because if the average team or other organization has 40 people, each person would only have to volunteer once every 4 or 5 weeks. This breaks down like this * 4 people on a team would go for three hours to the shelter were they could each take 9 dogs for a walk or run for 20 minutes. * This would allow 32 dogs to be walked durring that time. * If the team volunteered twice a week then each volunteer would only have to go to the shelter once every 5 weeks for 3 hours. * But this would allow 64 dogs to be walked every week! Each team could print out a single paper handout to be given to each member with the idea for the fund raising to show to the potential givers, or they could set up a stand in the union building, I think around campus students would gladly give up to 5 dollars for such a cause, faculty and other older members of the community would probably give up to 20 or more dollars. I think teams could easily raise 5,000 dollars each semester for their organization and bigger teams such as the football team with 100 men on the roster could easily raise much more. All this money could go to the teams for their personal use as the dogs would still be getting walked or they could agree to donate part of the earnings to the ASPCA or other charity. I think 20-60 % of donations should be stressed to give to the ASPCA or other charities as the team would still have a significant financial benefit. I then started getting the idea that I could e-mail this plan to every colleges athletic director, and volunteer organization, in hopes that they would forward it to all the schools sports teams, and college clubs such as the rugby club and geology club, it could also be e-mailed to all the churches in the community. Here are a list of some of the potential recipients of this idea via e-mail Every college in the U.S Every church in the U.S Every high school and middle school in the U.S All the major newspapers, In the future it's possible that this e-mail could also be translated and e-mailed to every University in the world, church, etc... I have also thought about including other charitable causes to include in the E-mail as to give all the organizations receiving it more choices for charitable causes to raise money, such as for every dollar donated we could spend 30 minutes in a children's hospital, or for every dollar donated we serve five meals at a local soup kitchen etc. I think the list should have about 10 or so other charitable ideas, because every sports team and club of a University couldn't possibly volunteer at the ASPCA or humane shelters there would simply be too many people. Some of the charities I was thinking about putting on it were: Children's Hospitals, Homeless and Abuse shelters, Orphanages, Big Brother organizations, Habitat for Humanity, the Humane society, Camps for blind children, Local Environmental causes, Soup kitchens, I haven't thought of all the ideas yet and would be looking forward to your ideas, or your organization could decide that. I know this idea sounds like a lot of work with all the e-mails going out, but if a few people or volunteers are to help I think it would go by rather easily as all e-mails can be found on the website. Or if your organization could find an online volunteering organization that could devote time just to sending out e-mails that would be great too. I hope to hear back from you with any input or any suggestions you might have. If this was not the correct recipient please forward it to whom ever it may concern. Thanks very much for your time and compassion. Sincerely, A concerned student" Ok thats it, like I said if you could give me any input at all on how to improve it, rewriting etc, voluteering organizations, donating orgs etc,.. Thanks so much.

• Answer:

  great idea. feel free to add us to your list of non-profits