UPDATE with Grand Total!!! Toy for Kids 2020 Christmas Drive!

revhtree · Nov 24, 2020

It's Christmas time again and we are excited to announce our annual Toys For Kids Drive!

Official Giving Page: Toys For Kids 2020 - GoFundMe

UPDATE: GOFUNDME does not allow REWARD levels anymore so we will detail them here in this thread towards the bottom! You give and you get tickets to win prizes!

It's that time of year for giving and our members at www.reef2reef.com love to give! If you are a seasoned veteran of REEF2REEF then you know we help unfortunate children get gifts, clothing and food at Christmas time. Every Christmas for the past 12 years we have had a toy donation drive and every year the members of R2R and the reefing community step up and give to make Christmas dreams come true! Last year alone we raised over $30,000 for toys, clothes, food & necessities for kids and their families all over the world!

Being a pastor of a local church in my community gives us the platform to not only see the need around us but to be able to do something about it! We are able to make sure that all families are in need and that the kids really wouldn't have much for Christmas otherwise. We are able to buy all the gifts with no taxes because we are a non-profit at the church. That saves us hundreds of dollars every year.

We are also very excited to announce this year that we are once again partnering with the GVM Orphanage, Smokey Mountain Children's Home, Grace Alive Church and The Awakening Church to help us disperse gifts, food, clothing and necessities to kids and families all over the world.

Link to last year's drive: Click Here

Will you help us reach our goal this year? We can do it! There is nothing that makes you feel better than to give to someone in need. All the proceed go directly to the Toy Drive!

Goal is $20,000

I would LOVE for us to reach the goal of $20,000 this year! We can do it! There is nothing that makes you feel better than to give to someone in need.

Give and Win: This year we are going to be offering prizes from some of our generous sponsors that can be won, by random draw to all those that are able to give. The following is a list of ticket entries you will receive for donating certain dollar amounts.

$10 - $24 = (1) Ticket (only one ticket will be given per person in this category to keep it fair)
$25 = (2) Tickets
$50 = (5) Tickets
$100 = (10) Tickets
$250 = (30)Tickets
$500 = (100) Tickets
$1000 = (250) Tickets

YOU WILL BE EMAILED YOUR RAFFLE TICKET NUMBERS VIA THE GO FUND ME PLATFORM AFTER THE DRIVE ENDS AND BEFORE DRAWING. WINNERS WILL BE DRAWN FROM ALL THE TICKETS ISSUED AND THE WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED TO CLAIM THEIR PRIZE.

Here is a list of prize donors and prizes as of today with more details TBA!

Red Sea - Prize TBA

Neptune System - Sponsored Live Show (prizes given away)

SBB Corals - $1000 Gift Certificate

Turbo's Aquatics - Four (4) $250 gift certificates ($1000 total), good toward any of my Turbo Algae Scrubbers (either Rev 4 or the upcoming Rev 5)

Aquatic Life Products - 3 – 36” T5 hybrid fixtures. A $299.99 retail value each.

Premium Aquatics - (3) Winners a $250 Premium Aquatics Gift Certificate!

Orphek - Atlantik v4 LED Light + gateway

Tropic Marin - Bio Actif Reactor 5000 for carbon dosing, 2 liter bag of NP Bacto Tricks $600 Shipped

A Reef Creation - $500 Gift Certificate

Top Shelf Aquatics - (5) Winners $100 Gift Certificates

Algae Barn - (5) Winners $100 Gift Certificate

Galactic Corals - $500 Gift Certificate

Living Reef Orlando - (3) Winners $100 Gift Certificates

Tunze USA - Tunze 9410 Skimmer

Reef Cleaners - (3) Winners $100 Gift Certificates

Reef Nutrition - $250 Food Pack

TCK Coral - (2) Winners $250 Gift Certificates

Vivid Creative Aquatics - 10-gallon Nano, Random Flow Generator® Flow Kit - VCA"

Noopsyche - K7 Pro II 95W LED Light with Mount and Controller

Punisher Corals - $50 Gift Certificate

Aquarocks - 3 pack of our magnetic single rock sets

Possibly more prizes to come....

*Winners outside the US lower 48 will have to pay actual shipping for prizes.

GIVE and keep up with the progress, the prizes, and the recent donators here: Toys For Kids 2020 - GoFundMe

Huge thanks to the SPONSORS & MEMBERS OF REEF2REEF for making this possible!

Lasse · Dec 11, 2020

I like Robin Hood. I give $50 more and with that steal $50 from the one (probably richer than me

) that promise to match all donations dollar for dollar up to $10 000. from the nine of november till the end of the campaign

Anonymous Giver said:
Over the last few years I've been more than impressed with how generous as a group the R2R Community is. Really amazing and I feel privileged to be part of the community.

That said, between now and the end of the drive I am committed to matching up to $10,000 in donations. If you are willing to donate a dollar Ill match that dollar on the last day of the drive. Make a thousand-dollar donation, I’ll do the same and continue to do so until the 10k is gone. You get the picture.

STARTING NOW! GO!!!!!

And I do not only like robin Hood - I feel like Robin Hood - and it feels good. Come on guys more too steel. We must up to at least $ 20 000 and the kids will have nearly $30 000

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse · Dec 11, 2020

Seagars said:
can we still give??? sorry got away from me yesterday.

Yes - I just donate $50 and its around $ 3 500 still to go. And it will be $ 7 000 in the end

Sincerely Lasse

Peace River · Dec 11, 2020

Seagars said:
can we still give??? sorry got away from me yesterday.

Yes! The drive has been extended because of the challenges with GFM.

Peace River · Dec 11, 2020

However we get there, let's keep going! Please consider adding your gift now for the R2R Toys for Kids.

$5,505 remaining in matching funds!

Lasse · Dec 11, 2020

Bumpilli bump

$5,505 still to go

Sincerely Lasse

Seagars · Dec 11, 2020

i am in for $250.00

Dal-Reef · Dec 11, 2020

Still time left I know shopping was on the the 10th @revhtree

Daniel@R2R · Dec 11, 2020

Dal-Reef said:
Still time left I know shopping was on the the 10th @revhtree

Yep! Still time left because the money goes to several locations, and some of them are able to wait a few more days before needing it. So some shopping happened on the 10th, but there's still more shopping left to do.

Dal-Reef · Dec 11, 2020

Daniel@R2R said:
Yep! Still time left because the money goes to several locations, and some of them are able to wait a few more days before needing it. So some shopping happened on the 10th, but there's still more shopping left to do.

Done

driftin · Dec 11, 2020

I donated back in November, but now the gofundme says the fundraiser was created three days ago. Did I miss an announcement in this thread somewhere? Is my donation still there?

Daniel@R2R · Dec 11, 2020

driftin said:
I donated back in November, but now the gofundme says the fundraiser was created three days ago. Did I miss an announcement in this thread somewhere? Is my donation still there?

Yep. It's still there. GFM did some kind of update that created 2 separate campaigns. The monies raised in the first one are still there, but separate from the 2nd round. It's annoying for sure. Rev is looking at better solutions instead of GFM for next year's drive.