Alright, everyone, here's one for you. We are one of 12 charities picked by various celebrities to participate in the $25,000 Firefox Challenge that just started yesterday on the Crowdrise site. The actor Paul Rudd selected us because we were his late father's favorite charity.
This is what the folks at Crowdrise emailed me about the contest:
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Paul Rudd is launching a fundraiser to help win $25k for the Rolling Dog Farm and I wanted to shoot you a quick email to let you know about everything.
Here's a mess of notes that explains how everything will work...
- Paul will be competing against eleven other celebrities, as well as anyone else who wants to participate, to try to raise as much money as possible for the Rolling Dog Farm.
- Paul will have his own fundraising page on CrowdRise.
- The goal is for Paul and the Rolling Dog Farm to direct people to Paul's page to donate and to join his team and help him fundraise.
- Mozilla is starting each celebrity out with a $5,000 donation.
- The celebrity, or non-celebrity campaign, that raises the most money for their charity gets a $25,000 prize donated by Mozilla.
- Paul is going live with the following prize...Donate $18 to the The Rolling Dog Farm for a chance to win an “I Love You Man” poster signed by Paul Rudd.
- The campaign ends January 11, 2012.
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Paul mentions on his page an additional prize:
"Or, donate $29 and you could win a voicemail greeting recorded by me for your phone."
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We will get all the donations made through Paul's page, plus the $5,000 that Mozilla (the organization that created and maintains the Firefox web browser) has already donated to Paul and each of the other celebrities participating in this contest. The $25,000 is in addition to all those funds!
Paul is up against some big names, like Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, and Will Farrell, but as of this morning, Paul was already in the No. 4 spot, just ahead of Streisand!
Please go to Paul's page here so you can donate to the farm and help him win the big prize for us.
This is the main Firefox Challenge page.
Paul, thank you so much for helping the animals here!
I donated today - way to go and thank you for everything you do for the animals!
Posted by: Ruth | December 22, 2011 at 05:48 PM
OH MY.....I just watched the video and am crying---it reminds me of ALL the animals Steve/Alayne (RDF) have saved and given a life too! Thank you Alayne and Steve for dedicating your life the last 11 years to these creatures. I shudder to think what would have become of them. I truly love RDF from the depth of my soul.
Posted by: Shirley * James/Portland, OR | December 16, 2011 at 11:30 PM
The video on Paul's page is wonderful. I've watched it three times already. Seeing Peabody and Pappy and many others from long ago is so heartwarming for me.
Posted by: Lynn (in Louisiana) | December 16, 2011 at 04:42 PM
GOGOGO RDF!!!
Posted by: Linda Murphy | December 16, 2011 at 10:27 AM
I made my donation and ask all the fans of RDF to join in! Paul's site was really cool. Let's win that 25K for our favorite couple and the animals they champion!
Happy Merry!
Posted by: Kathleen Rivard | December 16, 2011 at 08:39 AM
Done! How cool, nice man. Go RDF Go!
Posted by: Kathy Huffman | December 16, 2011 at 02:56 AM
Just donated ---Love the video and now I'm a fan of Paul's!!!!!! PAUL YOU AND YOUR DAD ROCK!!!!! so does RDF!!!!
Posted by: Shirley * James/Portland, OR | December 15, 2011 at 08:00 PM
It's too bad that Canadians can't win the prizes but that's o.k. The donation is the main thing. I'm happy to donate on behalf on one of my favourite charities and to support one of my favourite actors!
Posted by: Chris Butkovich | December 15, 2011 at 07:13 PM
The video on Pauls site was beautiful. It made me cry to see old familiar faces. I'm getting out my credit card right now. Thanks Paul!
Posted by: Anne in FL | December 15, 2011 at 06:53 PM
Yes!!! Paul, thank you SO MUCH for helping the animals @ RDF! It is a wonderful tribute to your father, clearly a kind man. Hope this will snowball with goodness.
Great "leverage", hoping many of us are in the holiday spirit and love to support RDF. Let's roll!
Posted by: Margaret | December 15, 2011 at 05:36 PM