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CHS Holiday Gift By The Numbers

In 2013 – 74 people donated to the CHS Holiday Gift Project on Crowdrise. This year, I have a personal goal of doubling that number because I would like to use this as an opportunity to share information about CHS with more Pittsburghers.

As of 10 am, 34 people have donated and we have raised $1100.

Three Reasons Why I am Supporting the 2014 CHS Holiday Gift Project

I am supporting the CHS Holiday Gift Project again this year because…

Mental illness needs to be talked about … I think that mental illness is a real issue in Pittsburgh and cross the country, and that CHS is doing some very important work to help improve the lives of Pittsburghers who are struggling with mental illness.

No one should be alone on Christmas… The CHS Holiday Gift Project provides some holiday cheer for some people that would not be receiving anything this holiday season. Most holiday gift projects provide gifts for kids and seniors. CHS works with people of all ages – the CHS Holiday Gift Project was started because many of the people that CHS works with were left out of Christmas cheer.

Tweet for good… This is a great opportunity to engage the readers of IheartPGH and the entire Pittsburgh social media community for a good cause.

If you would like to help….

Donate $10 TODAY

Invite 5 Friends to donate $10 (you can even create a fundraising team)

Share this blog post with your followers on Twitter

The other reason I love the CHS Holiday Gift Project is that it is a chance for local bloggers to work together to create more good in the Pittsburgh community. I am so impressed with my fellow bloggers who have supported this in years past and the new bloggers that have stepped up for the first time this year.

Check out how local bloggers are working together to raise $5000 for Community Human Services, a Pittsburgh non-profit that works on issues of homelessness and mental illness in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. You can support the CHS Holiday Gift Project by donating online HERE

https://storify.com/iheartpgh/pittsburgh-bloggers-support

For the past few years, I have been part of a group of Pittsburgh bloggers who have helped the Pittsburgh nonprofit Community Human Services aka CHS raise money for their holiday gift project. One of the things that I have learned about CHS is that they provide many important services to Pittsburghers who don’t fit into other social service programs. The same holds true for the holiday gifts. The money raised from the CHS Holiday Gift Project goes to CHS to provide a little holiday gift to the people who likely don’t fit into other holiday gift programs which are usually for kids or seniors.

This year, we’re getting a little bit of a head start with a new idea for fundraising with ThredUp. ThredUp is an online store that sells new and used women and kids clothing. ThredUp will buy your extra clothes, as long as they are in good condition, and will donate the money to CHS. I have sent several ThredUp cleanout bags back to ThredUp over the past year, and I have ordered from the ThredUp shop many times. So I thought it was time to try the ThredUp fundraising program.

If you have some extra clothes that you were thinking of donating, please order a free ThredUp clean out bag and donate to the CHS holiday gift project. Order your free clean out bag today. The whole process takes a few week – so the sooner you order a free cleanout bag, the sooner we can raise some $$$ for CHS. (Any funds that come in after the holidays will also go to CHS).

How to Clean Out Your Closet and Support the CHS Holiday Gift Project

Photo of a ThredUp clean out bag from Broke and Beautiful’s blog

Visit the CHS Holiday Gift Project Group on ThredUp HERE.
Enter your email address, name and password and click “Join This Group”
Click the yellow “Order a Bag Button” – for the items that ThredUp doesn’t want – you can choose to have them donated to Goodwill or sent back to you for a small fee.
Wait a few days… ThredUp will mail you a bag with a prepaid shipping label attached
Clean out your closet and fill up the bag
Send your your bag back to ThredUp – postage is already paid on the label
ThredUp will make an offer for the items that they want and donate that amount to CHS

More Ways to Shop and Support CHS

If you are interested in other websites w online shopping on ThredUp or a similar site Twice. Use the following links, for each person who signs up – I get a $10 credit. I will be donating all of the referral credits from both ThredUp and Twice to CHS.

Twice – use this link to save $10 off your first purchase – https://www.liketwice.com/z1Ngx/
ThredUp – use this link to save $10 off your first purchase – http://www.thredup.com/r/XSCAUT

CHS Holiday Gift Project By The Numbers

Total Amount we need to raise in 2014 – $5000
Amount I hope we can raise from ThredUp – $1000
Number of Pittsburghers who I hope will send a bag to ThredUp – 50
Date of CHS Holiday Gift Project Party at Houghs – Thursday, December 11 (more details to come)

I will be blogging and Tweeting updates about the project between now and whenever we finish raising the $5000 – please help me spread the word by tweeting with #CHxmaS.