This coming Tuesday, November 28th is #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving started in 2012. For America I think of it as a peaceful protest against the commercial gluttony of Black Friday and Cyber Monday and a powerful way to kick off the charitable season.
I serve as Co-Founder and Exec. Director of our small family foundation, The Gaines-Jones Education Foundation (GJEF) ~ dedicated to youth advocacy and college scholarships for African-Americans living in the San Francisco Bay Area and southwest Georgia. I entered an original essay telling GJEF’s story in the #MyGivingStorycontest. Between now and Dec 7th our essay needs your votes to move up in the contest.
GJEF’s goal from Giving Tuesday through the end of 2017 is to raise $5,000 to launch an on-going series of college readiness seminars for black 10th graders in Albany, Georgia.
• Please read the Gaines-Jones story explaining our mission ~ then cast your vote.
• Prizes include grants up to $10,000
100% of these funds will go toward our annual scholarship awards and the launching of our college readiness seminars.
• You, your friends and family can vote once a day until Dec. 7th
• EASY STEPS ~ Go to the page, wait a few seconds, a box will pop up with the essay and a green VOTE button in upper left corner. Prove you’re not a robot, enter email then click VOTE.
• Read the essay and VOTE HERE!
•Please circulate to your networks! Problems with link? email me: ajr.gaines.jones@gmail.com
Voted!
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This link does not take me to your story nor a green button to push. Instead it takes me to a place to post a story and then a very very long list of stories and after scrolling down for quite awhile I still did not get to your story.
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