ok guys, let me get some feedback from you here....
Even as we were first forming the club as you can see in the very first "about the club" posts, I had the intention of doing something as a club for charity. I saw last winter when I was thinknig about forming a club how some old hot rods club or something had a toys for tots run and have been thinking about it ever since. Well i just got an email from tunernetwork.com or something about how they are doing a cruise where everyone brings a canned good to donate at the end of it and that has kicked me back in gear and made me realize that we need to get going to do something for the holidays.
So how many of you are interested and what do you want to do. Some of my ideas were:
1. Volunteer in soup kitchen type place on thanksgiving
I would like to do this but I can certainly understand how many of you may want to be with your families and just relax on thanksgiving.
2. Food drive around thanksgiving/christmas/both
We could plan out a fun route to cruise along about a week before whichever holiday, put out boxes at businesses along that route, and then on the designated day, cruise the route, stopping at the businesses to pick up the canned goods and deliver them at the end to a soup kitchen type place.
3. Toy drive around christmas
We could either make some effort to collect toys or more likely just each buy a toy ourselves, wrap it and then all go together to some community center or place with a bunch of needy children and give out the gifts. What could be better for the kids than santa clause cruising up in a line of skittles....
4. Another idea i just came up with is kind of a bowlathon type thing, similar to what was talked about with the coast to coast mazda run a while back. We could make up some forms, and each club member takes the forms out to work or whatever and gets people to sponsor them either a flat rate, or ideally, an amount per mile. And we have say X number of hours that we will be driving around. This one requires significantly more planning, in the end we only have cash to give an organization, not food or toys to give people, and it involves probably a few hours of driving at least so maybe its not as good as some of the others but i thought i would just throw it out there.
5. Anything else
So let me hear it, do you want to do something for charity like this? We certainly dont have to if people arent interested, or if you dont like my ideas for what we could do or have some of your own then throw em out there.
Even as we were first forming the club as you can see in the very first "about the club" posts, I had the intention of doing something as a club for charity. I saw last winter when I was thinknig about forming a club how some old hot rods club or something had a toys for tots run and have been thinking about it ever since. Well i just got an email from tunernetwork.com or something about how they are doing a cruise where everyone brings a canned good to donate at the end of it and that has kicked me back in gear and made me realize that we need to get going to do something for the holidays.
So how many of you are interested and what do you want to do. Some of my ideas were:
1. Volunteer in soup kitchen type place on thanksgiving
I would like to do this but I can certainly understand how many of you may want to be with your families and just relax on thanksgiving.
2. Food drive around thanksgiving/christmas/both
We could plan out a fun route to cruise along about a week before whichever holiday, put out boxes at businesses along that route, and then on the designated day, cruise the route, stopping at the businesses to pick up the canned goods and deliver them at the end to a soup kitchen type place.
3. Toy drive around christmas
We could either make some effort to collect toys or more likely just each buy a toy ourselves, wrap it and then all go together to some community center or place with a bunch of needy children and give out the gifts. What could be better for the kids than santa clause cruising up in a line of skittles....
4. Another idea i just came up with is kind of a bowlathon type thing, similar to what was talked about with the coast to coast mazda run a while back. We could make up some forms, and each club member takes the forms out to work or whatever and gets people to sponsor them either a flat rate, or ideally, an amount per mile. And we have say X number of hours that we will be driving around. This one requires significantly more planning, in the end we only have cash to give an organization, not food or toys to give people, and it involves probably a few hours of driving at least so maybe its not as good as some of the others but i thought i would just throw it out there.
5. Anything else
So let me hear it, do you want to do something for charity like this? We certainly dont have to if people arent interested, or if you dont like my ideas for what we could do or have some of your own then throw em out there.
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