Nestle will donate 25¢ to City of Hope for each free message you send to a child w/ cancer

[granolagirl]

SticksOfHope.com

UPDATE:
240,468 messages submitted or $60,117.00 raised as of 11/5/06
208,274 as of 10/12/06
197,305 as of 10/8/06
182,255 as of 10/7/06
174,000 as of 10/4/06
163,152 as of 10/1/06
152,014 as of 9/23/06

... anyone else here see the potential for a rather sizeable donation ?

PS It doesn't have to be a long message. Something simple like "Stay Strong!", "Never give up hope!", or "You can beat cancer!" can be motivating. I've been copying and pasting in a few (hundred) messages at a time, which makes things go faster.
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With each virtual message of hope sent between May 1 and December 31, 2006, Nestle will donate $0.25 to the City of Hope with a guaranteed donation of $50,000

Send a message of hope to a kid with cancer on a virtual frozen pop stick. Each time you do, Nestle Ice Cream will donate 25 cents to the City of Hope and add another stick to the statue

Basically, a $50K donation to the City of Hope is guaranteed. But once they receive 200,000 messages of hope, then each additional message is worth a quarter.

City of Hope is a research, treatment, and education institution dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other diseases

 

[KLin]

I hope they screen these messages first before the kids get them.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: KLin
I hope they screen these messages first before the kids get them.

lol, that's just not right.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: KLin
I hope they screen these messages first before the kids get them.

lol, that's just not right.

Too many idiots out there may abuse this.

 

[ForumMaster]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: KK

Originally posted by: KLin
I hope they screen these messages first before the kids get them.

lol, that's just not right.

Too many idiots out there may abuse this.

true and unfortunate. i sent a couple.

 

[sygyzy]

I can't believe your sole purpose here is to have people click on charity sites.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

That's actually a really good idea on Nestle's part. :thumbsup:

 

[FoBoT]

is this another spam thread?

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: KLin
I hope they screen these messages first before the kids get them.

That's what interns are for.

 

[granolagirl]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
I can't believe your sole purpose here is to have people click on charity sites.

i guess i just like asking people to help with causes like this. if you don't want to, though, you don't have to

 

[Rebasxer]

For once Brian Peppers will be doing some good...sorta

 

[sygyzy]

Originally posted by: granolagirl

Originally posted by: sygyzy
I can't believe your sole purpose here is to have people click on charity sites.

i guess i just like asking people to help with causes like this. if you don't want to, though, you don't have to

No no, I think they are good causes, it's just strange to me.

 

[gsellis]

Always the skeptic, Snopes is clean AND 3M did this with City of Hope too. Go Nestle!

 

[granolagirl]

110,077 messages submitted so far

http://www.sticksofhope.com/

 

[granolagirl]

120.933 messages submitted so far

http://www.sticksofhope.com/

 

[dopcombo]

Thanks granolagirl for showing me that. I wrote a msg and forwarded it to all my friends.

 

[lagvoid]

submitted a few.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I just sent message #121,000.

 

[Lola]

That is so wonderful. I did a few. :heart:

 

[dug777]

Ugh, why do you keep linking to the same damn site? We're not retarded

 

[granolagirl]

Originally posted by: dug777
Ugh, why do you keep linking to the same damn site? We're not retarded

even geniuses might benefit from the occasional reminder

 

[granolagirl]

125,437 messages submitted so far

Thanks again to all those who have been submitting messages of hope to kids with cancer

 

[granolagirl]

136,125 messages

once they receive more than 200K messages, then nestle will donate $0.25 for each additional message submitted

thanks again

 

[CRXican]

will there ever be a cure for cancer?

 

[granolagirl]

Originally posted by: CRXican
will there ever be a cure for cancer?

Hopefully, one day, there will be

Whoa, I just bumped this thread, and in a few minutes I saw over 200 (actually, closer to 300) new messages submitted :shocked:

If that's ATOT effect, then I'm impressed