May Flowers - Purple Row Cares Has More To Give

I’m not sure how complicated it would be, but I was reading on their website about player autographs and it says:

If you are interested in an authentic autograph, please join Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki and Brad Hawpe in their efforts to raise money for charity. Please send a check for $25 (per autograph) made payable to the Colorado Rockies Foundation. The Foundation supports programs focusing on youth baseball and softball, education and literacy, and drug and alcohol abuse awareness.

We could pay $75 for Hawpe, Tulo and Helton to autograph a Purple Row Cares t-shirt and then auction it off on ebay. We could then use the money earned from the auction to donate to another charitable cause.

My guess would be that it would generate more money than the original investment, I’d say double it at least…

As an econ teacher I very much like this multiplier effect.

And certainly any Colo. Rockies sponsored charity would be a worthy benefactor.

as KM was deeply involved because of his close relationship with Michael McMorris, son of Jerry.

It’s an opprotunity to get a great item to undoubtedly raise more money to give back! I would love to take part and help out if there is anything I can do!

I’m sure there would be interest in a shirt or ball signed by those three.

This charity raffle to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of MetroDenver. Winner gets a luxury condo or $1 million. http://tinyurl.com/3×5nmyz

A luxury condo would make a nice venue for our Rowbbbq’s. Then when we’re not partying in it we could put it up for lease and donate the income from that. That would make for some sweet donations!

is great. Please try to do this, especially with a purple row item if possible.

Well actually it was a nice employee named Kathy, and she suggested we send three seperate balls; one for each player. I told her how we were planning on auctioning the balls at ebay and then using the money from that to donate to another charity. She said that was perfectly fine and that organizations auction off autographed Rockies items all the time.

Since this seems to be the consensus and we have the blessing from the Rockies, it looks like we’re a go on this project.

we may have to count Florida by hand to get the final tally.

https://secure.mlb.com/col/community/winsforkids.jsp

Short story: $25 donation to Wins for Kids (the charity that Tulo is growing his mullet for) gets a special Tulo cap with a fake mullet attached in the back in July. Auction that…it might be rare enough to get a significant premium!!

Holly and I were discussing this after a game recently. We were trying to come up with some ideas for a service project that could be done. We’re open to ideas.

One of the things that was discussed was perhaps we could do a service project on a get-together like the Rowbbbq’s. Something like helping at a foodbank for a couple of hours.

Another idea we had involved doing things individually and making it part of something bigger. Have you ever heard of a warm and fuzzy jar? It’s when a person does something good for another person like helping an old lady cross the road. Then we place a purple fuzzy in a jar. Once the jar is filled it looks something like this:

We could even dedicate the jar to someone like Kelli McGregor. Anyway I look forward to your feedback.