Menu for Hope 6
As you may have already heard (news travels fast), a bunch of food bloggers from around the world have rallied together to offer up some delicious food-related items upon which to bid between today and Christmas Day. For the past six years, Pim (the founder of the feast) and a revolving list of food and wine bloggers have raised funds for worthy causes – nearly a quarter of a million dollars was raised for the United Nations World Food Programme in support of their school lunch program, and this year all money raised goes toward Purchase for Progress, another WFP initiative.
Here’s how it works: For each $10 donated, you get one bid towards the item of your choosing, with all monies raised going to benefit Purchase for Progress. Once bidding has closed, winners will be chosen at random and announced on Chez Pim on January 18, 2010.
Tara, one of my very favourite food bloggers, is the Canadian host of this fantastic event, and has all the Canadian goodies pictured on her site. (Which, by the way, is one worthy of a regular visit. It’s truly one of the most well-written and photographed blogs I follow, and her recipes always work. I’m just saying. She’s someone you should know.)
The master list for all Menu for Hope 6 bid items is available here, and a direct link to the donation site is here. I’m offering up copies of my cookbooks, Grazing and One Smart Cookie, autographed and shipped to your door. The item bid codes are CA5 and CA6, respectively. I’ll ship them anywhere – you don’t have to be in Canada.
To donate and enter the Menu for Hope Raffle here’s what you need to do:
1. Choose a bid item or bid items of your choice from our Menu for Hope main bid item list.
2. Go to the donation site at Firstgiving and make a donation.
3. Please specify which bid item you’d like in the ‘Personal Message’ section in the donation form when confirming your donation. You must write in how many tickets per bid item, and please use the bid item code. Each $10 donation you make will buy you one virtual raffle ticket toward an item of your choice. (For example, a donation of $50 can be 2 tickets for EU01 and 3 tickets for EU02.)
4. If your company matches your charity donation, please check the box and fill in the information so we could claim the corporate match.
5. Please check the box to allow us to see your email address so that we can contact you in case you win. Your email address will not be shared with anyone.
What’s better than holiday shopping toward a good cause?
December 14 2009 10:26 pm | leftovers
tara on 15 Dec 2009 at 5:56 am #
Hey friend! Have I told you lately that you’re awesome?
Thank you for being a part of Menu for Hope, I am truly proud to be working alongside you on this year’s effort.
Holly on 15 Dec 2009 at 8:54 am #
Julie, do you know where I would find Chai spice for making cookies? I live in Edmonton.
thanks! Holly
Barb on 15 Dec 2009 at 3:58 pm #
I’ll check it out.
Robyn in Mountain (Ontario that is) on 17 Dec 2009 at 3:59 pm #
Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a looksie this weekend. Cheers!