John Chow Helps the UGM Feed the Hungry this Thanksgiving

Comments 3 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Union Gospel Mission operates out of 12 facilities between downtown Vancouver and Mission providing meals, support, education, outreach, shelter & housing, and recovery programs. On October 12th they’ll be serving thousands of Thanksgiving meals and one local blogger is taking it upon himself to make sure they can serve even more.


Photo © UGM on Flickr

The UGM has been my non-profit of choice for my Blogathon campaign for two years and I’ve been able to raise close to $10,000 with the help of my readers. One person who consistently donates to my campaign and helps promote my efforts is John Chow. Now, John sometimes gets a bad rap for blogging about how he makes money blogging but ever since I met him at the UGM in early 2008 he’s always supported noble causes and used his online influence to help make a difference.

This Thanksgiving the UGM is preparing their annual feast for the community and for just $3.29 they can supply a complete nutritious meal to one person. John Chow is asking his readers to donate this amount, which is affordable to many of us, and in exchange he will match every donation (up to $1,000 per person).

On his blog John wrote, “UGM serves over 280,000 meals each year, and provides shelter for almost 10,000 individuals a year. They are an organization that I support and I am asking you to join me in helping to feed the hungry this Thanksgiving.”


Photo © UGM on Flickr

To contribute, go to the UGM’s online donation page, select “Thanksgiving Dinner” from the dropdown, then mail your receipt to John (johnchow [at] johnchow [dot] com). He’ll then list all contributors in a blog post on Friday and match the donations.

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  1. Janet Meiners ThaelerWednesday, October 7th, 2009 — 10:05am PDT

    I was looking for an example of a ’cause related’ story in my post with press release tips. This is perfect. I hope they did write it up and distribute it through a news wire or an online wire. These are some of the best stories IMO. I love to see how successful people give back.
    Janet

    See: http://www.onlineprbook.com/7-killer-online-press-release-tips-for-small-businesses/

  2. Kumiko IdeWednesday, October 7th, 2009 — 4:01pm PDT

    Go, John! What a fantastic effort to give back to the community on his part.

  3. richmanWednesday, October 14th, 2009 — 8:16am PDT

    What a good man!

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