Talking (Day 7)

As you all know, we will be talking to someone today who can help us become a 501 (c)3 organization. We'll let you all know how that goes probably tomorrow.

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

The Perfect Advertisement (Day 6)

As you know, we have been having trouble getting the word out about our project. So today, I thought of the perfect advertisement. Door hangers! Hopefully, soon you will see door hangers with information about our organization coming to you!

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Same Old (Day 6)

There is nothing new to report today. We will be talking to someone tomorrow about becoming a 501 (c)3 organization, and we will talk to the lady from Borders on Friday.

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

Slowing down (Day 5)

Something came up, so we can't go talk to the lady at Borders today, but I will probably talk to her tomorrow (Tuesday) or Friday. Unfortunately, we still haven't gotten a single reply from anyone else that we emailed, except for the other district library, who called to let us know that they can't do fundraising either. I'm going to try and personally talk to someone who can help us become an official 501 (c)3 organization. It's personally very frustrating for me to see everything slowing down like this. We can't let it hold us back though. We have to keep going no matter how frustrated we get. Like I have said before, people need us.

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

This could be the start (Day 4)

We called the Borders, and they want to speak to us personally tomorrow. They have Benefit days, where a percentage of the sales in the store go to a charitable organization like ours. However, in order to be able to do that, we have to be a 501 (c)3 organization, meaning that we have a status as a non-profit organization. We will talk to the lady at Borders tomorrow to see if we can work something out. We are so close to being able to do this, but it might not work out. In the meantime, we have emailed a lady who recently became a 501 (c)3 organization, so she might be able to help us. We also emailed Debbie Kiddle of the Lifesaver Bottle organization asking if what we are doing is ok. Hopefully she can let us know soon!

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

Publicizing (Day 3)

We called Borders, but the lady we want to talk to won't be in until tomorrow, so we will call her again in the afternoon. We are slowly gaining followers-- we have four now. Hopefully we will gain more soon. If you are following us, please invite your friends to follow us as well. If you aren't following us yet, please do so! We need to get the word out about the project, and we need to do it soon. People all over the world need us.

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

Further Steps (Day 2)

We created a page on cantonwiki.org (our city's wikipedia) about the project. The link will be at the bottom of the entry. We also added this blog to the cantonwiki blog listing. Hopefully people will be interested in this!

Canton wiki Lifesaver Bottle Project Page

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Moving Forward (Day 2)

We received a reply from our local library. Unfortunately they cannot help us since this is a fundraiser and they are a non-profit organization. Undeterred, we replied to them and asked for additional suggestions that they may have as to where we could speak to people. We emailed the other nearby library in case they can help, and we called our local Borders bookstore in hopes of doing a program there, even if it has to be a book club based on Do Hard Things. They told us who to contact, and we will be giving her a call tomorrow. Hopefully something works out, and hopefully we hear from Mr. Pritchard soon!

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

Getting Started (Day 1)

Not wanting to put off the project for later, we started the same day as we were inspired. We contacted our local library in hopes of being able to fundraise there and give a talk, and we emailed Michael Pritchard, asking for ideas and support with our project. We even created a simple plan that we will base the project off of. Things seem to be going pretty well so far!

If you have any questions or comments, you can always email livesaverbottle@gmail.com.

Inspiration (Day 1)

Our inspiration to start this project stemmed from two places. A book called Do Hard Things, and a TED talk given by Michael Pritchard. I had seen the talk a year or so ago, and it amazed me at what such a simple device could do for the world. However, I didn't decide to pursue the idea until I read the book Do Hard Things. It inspired me to try and make a difference in the world, and I realized that I wanted to raise money to buy more Lifesaver bottles. At this point, everything is a gamble and completely theoretical, but we have begun to take some action. The links below show you exactly what inspired us in hopes that you will be inspired too.

The original TED talk by Michael Pritchard

Do Hard Things

The Lifesaver Bottle

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