Feeding Saddles – FSSB#1 Spoiler

[Mikey]

Good morning gang. I wanted to announce that this year’s Freezing Saddles will be so much better than last year for 2 reasons. One, This year my wife will be joining us, AND two we want to take advantage of the FS energy to do some real good. I want to guage your interest for this so please respond. I was thinking of having the first FSSB be a charity drive called “Feeding Saddles”. I am going to create a crowdrise site for Freezing Saddles, and use our positive energy and positive publicity to raise real money for charity. If we could get donations of even a penny a mile, and 10-cents a day (0.01 per point) across the entire group we could raise a lot of money. I figure the funds could be split between local food banks and/or Phoenix bikes. We could have a contest to see which team brings in more loot, etc. I would love to be able to work with hozn to link the crowdrise site to freezing saddles. What does everyone think?

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[Alcova cyclist]

I think I am in – definitely as a contributor, probably as a fundraiser.

Quick question — I see in the thread comments that a few people have pledged “$0.XX per mile” but the crowdrise website only seems to allow you to donate a fixed amount. Am I doing something wrong, or will people just do the math at the end and make a donation then based on mileage as reported at the end of the game?

[komorebi]

@Alcova cyclist 103053 wrote:

Quick question — I see in the thread comments that a few people have pledged “$0.XX per mile” but the crowdrise website only seems to allow you to donate a fixed amount. Am I doing something wrong, or will people just do the math at the end and make a donation then based on mileage as reported at the end of the game?

I was planning to donate based on reported miles at the end of FS. But if there’s a way to make incremental donations on Crowdrise as the points are accrued, I’d be happy to do that instead.

[CPTJohnC]

@komorebi 103119 wrote:

I was planning to donate based on reported miles at the end of FS. But if there’s a way to make incremental donations on Crowdrise as the points are accrued, I’d be happy to do that instead.

I too was thinking about donating based on my points accrued or miles ridden (and happy to round up to an increment, as needed). I don’t see a way to handle that. Am I missing something, or do I just commit to do it, but actually donate at the end? Or make weekly donations of $10 minimum? or some other method I don’t yet see?

[Mikey]

@CPTJohnC 103186 wrote:

I too was thinking about donating based on my points accrued or miles ridden (and happy to round up to an increment, as needed). I don’t see a way to handle that. Am I missing something, or do I just commit to do it, but actually donate at the end? Or make weekly donations of $10 minimum? or some other method I don’t yet see?

You could do several things, but the easiest would be to wait till the end or near the end and donate based on your estimated end miles. You can donate to my team to keep it in one lump sum, or you could join my team on crowdrise to get the name recognition, not a huge deal, it is completely up to you.

[tawdryaudre]

All right, everyone! Mikey, you officially have competition for this side bet… I set up a fundraiser for Thrive DC through your Crowdrise page. My fundraising goal is $1,001.

I’m gonna spend part of Friday’s happy hour shamelessly recruiting people to join my team… let’s do this, folks! Tra la la la, it shall be a grand ol’ time.

https://www.crowdrise.com/FreezingSaddlesHomeless

[Mikey]

@tawdryaudre 103697 wrote:

All right, everyone! Mikey, you officially have competition for this side bet… I set up a fundraiser for Thrive DC through your Crowdrise page. My fundraising goal is $1,001.

I’m gonna spend part of Friday’s happy hour shamelessly recruiting people to join my team… let’s do this, folks! Tra la la la, it shall be a grand ol’ time.

https://www.crowdrise.com/FreezingSaddlesHomeless

Audre, I just saw your team link, It sounds great! Thanks for joining in! I look forward to meeting you at the happy hour, and stealing teammates for my team

[Mikey]

Last Chance to give to FEEDING SADDLES – Give to either the Capital Area Food Bank, or Thrive DC, and feel good about yourself.

Help us Help others!

[komorebi]

@komorebi 101534 wrote:

I’ll donate another $0.05 per Freezing Saddle point earned by Mikey’s team, up to a total of $150.

Kudos to Mikey’s team (Mike and Keow) for collectively earning 1871 Freezing Saddles points this year! Way to tough it out in the cold, snow, rain, and wind. In honor of your hard work, I happily just donated an additional $94 to the Capital Area Food Bank.

Mikey, thanks again for setting this up!

[Mikey]

@komorebi 111846 wrote:

Kudos to Mikey’s team (Mike and Keow) for collectively earning 1871 Freezing Saddles points this year! Way to tough it out in the cold, snow, rain, and wind. In honor of your hard work, I happily just donated an additional $94 to the Capital Area Food Bank.

Mikey, thanks again for setting this up!

We fell a little short of our 1000 mile goal, but we had fun. I did nothing more than anyone else, you are the real hero!!!

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