Fall 2010 Fundraiser

Thank you all so much for your donations and your prayers and well wishes. We didn't make the fall budget, but we got darned close with $3,194.04. And our anonymous 10% matchers, S&B, will be donating the entire $377.80, despite not making the goal. That leaves DCIN with a very successful Fall Fundraiser of $3,571.84!!!! Now for the prizes. I used a random number generator on the Internet to sequence the prizes and to draw the wining numbers. The result is: 0217 wins the Bruno the Cat SnuggleSafe Cover (Snuggle Safe not included) and $20 worth of Starbucks gift cards. 0229 wins a gift certificate for a memorial or other video to be custom made by dian and wheezer plus catnip toys from Althea. 0408 wins a gift certificate for a session with Dawn Allen, an animal communicator. 0007 wins a Craig CMP628E 2gb MP3 + video player. 0550 wins a hostess basket, containing several handcrafted items (including a bread cover, a neck scarf, and a soy scented candle) and some awesome cookies. 0499 wins a Bayer Contour USB meter kit, with 500 strips and 300 lancets. 0213 wins a hostess basket. 0185 wins A $25 gift certificate for products from Gina's Gourmet Creations, with free shipping. 0462 wins a Bayer Contour USB meter kit, with 500 strips and 300 lancets. 0146 wins a hostess basket. 0013 wins a kitty pi made by Lynda and Scruffy. I haven't yet looked to see who the winners are. If you are a winner, please PM or email me your mailing address so that I may get your prize(s) to you. If there is a problem with the prize drawn for you (for example, you got a meter and strips but your diabetic cat is not insulin dependent, please let me know and I will see what I can do. There might be someone else who wants your prize instead of his/hers. ***********************************************************************

******************************************************************* Pleeze Hep DCIN Hep Udder Xtra-sweet Kiddies Update 11/21/10---3 more days. Almost half the goal left to go. ******************************************************************* Update 11/18/10--Two new prizes for the fundraiser, each a $270+ retail value. A Bayer Contour meter kit, with 500 extra strips and 300 lancets!! I am hoping this will encourage more participation as donations have leveled off and this is the final weekend before the drawing next Tuesday. (Sorry, I previously posted that these were the Contour USB meters, but those are all gone.) ************************************************************************

Update 11/2/10--An awesome challenge grant from an awesome couple. In honor of:

• DCIN
• All of the GAs
• All of the Foster Beans
• All of the Beans who have adopted unwanted diabetics
• All of those who take the time to help others on the FDMB and DCC
• All of those who have gone OTJ
• And to all of us who chose to stay the course with our beloved babies....and we never give/gave up on them!

S&B will match 10% of all donations to this fundraiser, to the total fundraising goal. That means that if the rest of us can come up with a $3,778.00 sundae by digging through our change and sending prayers and good vibes, S&B will put an additional $377.80 cherry on top. Awesome, S&B. We hope to take you for every penny!! Cha-Ching!! Oh, and S&B are not getting numbers for the prize drawing. So their matching donation does not change your chances to win a prize. ********************************************************************** Initial post, 10/30/10--You can support DCIN and specific cats during this Fall 2010 fundraising contest!! (We aren't calling it a raffle because PayPal will close DCIN's account for gambling if we call it that.) DCIN has had several items donated to award as prizes in this contest. So far, DCIN has:

• Three hostess baskets, containing several handcrafted items (including a bread cover, a neck scarf, and a soy scented candle) and some awesome cookies.
• A gift certificate for a session with Dawn Allen, an animal communicator.
• A gift certificate for a memorial or other video to be custom made by dian and wheezer plus catnip toys from Althea.
• A Craig CMP628E 2gb MP3 + video player with a snazzy color touch screen display
• A Bruno the Cat SnuggleSafe Cover (Snuggle Safe not included) and $20 worth of Starbucks gift cards
• A $25 gift certificate for products from Gina's Gourmet Creations, with free shipping
• A kitty pi made by Lynda and Scruffy
• A Bayer Contour USB meter kit, with 500 strips and 100 lancets
• A Bayer Contour USB meter kit, with 500 strips and 100 lancets (again)

For only a $5 donation, you can receive one chance to the prizes in this contest. You can specify which cat you wish to help, or leave your donation unrestricted. Our goal for this fundraiser is pretty high, much of that the result of vetting costs for dental and other surgical procedures. Our goal---$3,778. All amounts received will first go to cats' individual accounts before the request for unrestricted funds. All donations are a deduction for US income taxes. This is the breakdown of the fundraising budget: $1,000..Anonymous Cat 2, future surgical procedure .....120..Bill, past dental .....100..Blackie, past and future supplies .....176..Jake, past vetting for high BG levels .....200..Orinch Boyz (Beasley and Twinkie), future costs .....400..Porch2, future dental .....900..Tawny, past and future costs and future dental .....150...Tinkerbelle, past and future costs .....232..Yoda, past vetting .....500..Unrestricted $3,778 (The pages for some of these cats need to be updated and some need to be created. Stop back during the next few days for updates.) DCIN and all the cats it has and is helping thank you for your generosity during this fundraiser. DCIN will send you a number for each $5 that you donate. We will be pulling the winning numbers on Tuesday November 23, the Tuesday before US Thanksgiving. This contest is open to folks around the world. You can donate to this fundraiser by sending funds through PayPal to ennis93 @att.net (remove spaces). Please choose the personal tab and gift radio button to make your donation without part of it going to PayPal fees. Do not use the word "raffle." You can simply indicate it is for the Fall 2010 Fundraiser. Please email me at the address above if you want to mail a check. If you want to help a particular cat, please include that in the memo line on your PayPal transaction or check. Some might be wondering what DCIN uses unrestricted funds for. There have been a number of cats helped through unrestricted funds. If the need for a particular cat is small and expected to be temporary, DCIN often will not open a separate account for that cat and simply pay for its needs through unrestricted funds. DCIN also usually buys test strips on EBay using unrestricted funds and does not then charge that cost to an individual cat's account when sending the strips for that cat. DCIN has not had a fundraiser since June 2010 because of the generosity of its supporters during that fundraiser and since as individual needs arose. Those who work behind the scenes for DCIN are extremely thankful for this support, as are those who have been helped by your generosity. We have been able to save several diabetic cats from euthanasia recently, as well as relieved the financial and emotional stress of treating an owned diabetic cat for many beans. Sometimes, all it takes is a small amount of help and some moral support to get a diabetic cat healthy and on its way to remission. Sometimes the need is greater, for example with the several dentals and other surgical procedure that DCIN would like to be able to finance. And if you don't have the money to donate, in no way should you feel badly about that. If you are reading this paragraph, your heart is with us, and that is enough for us. Bless you all.