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We need your help!
There are many ways to support us...
Become a Financial Supporter
(Please note: If you are a Tim Harvey supporter, please visit his own website.
Around-n-Over has received no funds for Tim Harvey as of 1/1/2006, and will not accept any funds for
Tim Harvey in the future.)
It is our goal that all educational content be provided to instructors and to schools free of charge.
It is our dream to eventually meet in their classrooms the same children that will participate in our
journey. It will be critical to maintain this web site and to remain connected to the same classrooms
from the far ends of the world. Doing this from the middle of the oceans via satellite phone, and
living up to the demands of our mission statement will require resources.
As for the human powered challenge, while we have received essential in-kind services and fantastic
gear donations from various companies, the human powered journeys remain primarily self-funded. If you feel inspired to make dreams a reality and would like
to assist in furthering the educational mission of Around-n-Over, we welcome
your support!!
Your contributions are tax deductible. To become an individual sponsor, simply use
the Donation Booth to the right. You will be taken to a PayPal page where you can make your donation by credit
card. For donations larger than $30, please include the size for one t-shirt in
the "Any notes to Around-n-Over?" space after providing your shipping address on the same Paypal pages.
- $30 donation: name included on our Sponsors page as an Individual Contributor,
and a t-shirt.
- $50 donation: same is previous, and name to be included in the boat register
becoming a passenger on the oceans.
- $500 or more: same as previous, and name applied on the boat at the next port
of call, becoming visible in the pictures of our boat.
- More substantial donations: same as previous, and may qualify for listing in
the Silver, Gold or Summit Sponsor categories on our Sponsors page.
As an alternative to using credit cards:
- If you live outside the US, and you cannot find your country of residence in Paypal, or
- if you would simply rather send a check,
please make the check payable to Around-n-Over, include your t-shirt size if applicable and send
it to:
Around-n-Over
P.O. Box 19662
Seattle, WA 98109-6662
U.S.A.
Matching Gifts by Employers?
Employees: Corporate Matching Gift programs empower employees in many
organizations to decide which worthy causes their employer should support. Many employers match the qualifying
contributions of their employees toward worthy causes. If your employer promotes such a program,
you will have an excellent way of adding to the value of your contribution toward our mission.
Employers: Similarly, if you are an employer and share our vision, you too can include Around-n-Over among
your list of charitable organizations that your employees browse for matching gifts. Your gifts would make the
difference.
Promote Around-n-Over
Please consider personally becoming our advocate. We live in a world of two degrees of separation. When you tell
others about our projects and our mission statement, you will be
creating possibilities previously inaccessible to us. We are primarily looking for access to students, then for
additional donations and sponsorships.
- Teachers: If you have teachers in your address book, please let them know. Through these teachers, we
will reach substantially more students. Teachers belong to education related mailing lists, and if we win their
hearts, they will spread the word.
- Sponsors: If you know people who can reach decision makers for corporate marketing funds or foundation
grants, by all means, do tell them, or please introduce us.
- Friends: If you are excited and inspired by our projects, then your friends will likely be
enthusiastic as well. After all, we choose our friends from like-minded folks. Your friends may be willing to
tell others the same way, and maybe even donate.
- General audience: You can make a statement of support by buying and wearing our t-shirt. It could
prove to be a conversation starter with a stranger.
Link your personal or company web site to ours
When we increase the number of visitors to our web site, we are able to better meet the demands
of our mission statement, not to mention our ability to attract sponsors.
Please copy the html code below onto your web site to help promote our cause. The Around-n-Over logo,
which is our trademark, will appear in the size as you see here depending on the choice of code that you
apply.
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<a
href="http://www.around-n-over.org/"><img
src="http://www.around-n-over.org/pics/ANO_link.jpg"
width="120" height="162" border=0
alt="around-n-over.org"></a> |
<a
href="http://www.around-n-over.org/"><img
src="http://www.around-n-over.org/pics/ANO_linksmall.jpg"
width="80" height="108" border=0
alt="around-n-over.org"></a> |
Shop Online as You Normally Would!
Starting in 1996, Amazon Associates program was the first online affiliate program of its kind. Today, it
is the largest and most successful online affiliate program, with over 900,000 members joining world wide.
In this program, Associates drive internet traffic to amazon.com
through specially formatted links to benefit both parties in which amazon.com shares its revenues for the
favor. This requires our audience to click through any of the amazon.com links on our site like the one to
the right, within the text, or at the left margin.
Click on the image to the right for iGive.com, and you will find an online community of over 500 vendors that
donate a percentage of your purchase amount to causes of your choice at no extra cost to you... These
stores include L.L.Bean, REI, REI Outlet, Lands' End, PETsMART, Barnes & Noble, Gap, Expedia, Eddie
Bauer, JCPenney, Office Depot, Staples, J.Crew, Dell, IBM, eBay, Spiegel, Drugstore.com, Orvis, HSN,
Hallmark, Best Buy to mention a few. Since we are a 501(c)(3) organization, you will still get your
tax-deduction if you so choose.
For example, if you go to iGive.com and renew your Wall Street Journal subscription, we get part
of the subscription amount at no extra cost to you, and you get to keep the tax deduction. This is the
corporate marketing dollars applied according to your wishes, and reflects the value that these
corporations place on the traffic that they attract to their online stores. Also, if you were to tell
your friends by sending online referrals from iGive.com, we would get $1 per friend that joins.
Donate Frequent Flier Miles
In the execution of our mission statement, we will need
to fly often across the nation, and even around the world. With the flexibility that your miles would
provide:
- we can broaden our reach by visiting schools outside of our driving distance,
- we can travel to meet potential sponsors or partners for effective in person presentations,
- we can provide logistical support to meet Erden upon landfall from his rowing episodes, and to help in
transitions from boat to bicycle or vice versa,
- we can bring a camera crew to meet Erden at given intervals to document the journey such that we can provide
a more complete coverage of the same for our audience, and
- while Erden will strive to reach faraway destinations by human power, we can help the climbing team to fly
near the mountains.
- In addition, when forced to wait out hurricane seasons before ocean crossings, or winters for mountain climbs,
Erden will have two options: one will be to return to US for additional promotional work toward our mission, or
staying to report from where he is, becoming the eyes and ears of the students who will learn about the local
customs and sites. In either case, whether it is Erden flying back home, or Nancy flying to meet Erden, airfares
will be prohibitive.
We will better be able to afford the project with your help in reducing the transportation costs. Please
e-mail us
about this option.
Thank you for your support!!!