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What Does an Animal Shelter, Recycling and a West Virginia Florist Have In Common?

A Dream For A Better Life

I may be the plant expert for Flower Shop Network, but my other passion involves dogs. Every dog I have ever had has come from a shelter. Including our latest member Quincy (an Austrilian Shepard mix). I passionately support my local humane societies and The Best Friends Animal Society. So when I received this email from one of our members, I knew I had to help get the word out.

Pat at Cross Lanes Floral in Cross Lanes WV has applied for a grant to help her local animal shelter. We can all help Pat by voting for her proposal. Pepsi is offering a $50,000 grant to the top 10 proposals submitted. To help you understand the program, I am including the email she sent me.

Hello everyone!  I desperately need your help.  I recently wrote a grant proposal idea and submitted it to the Pepsi Refresh Project on behalf of the Kanawha Charleston Animal Shelter.  The grant is for $50K that will be given to our shelter to start a project called Cans for Companions.

In order for the shelter to receive this grant, they need your vote.  Pepsi has agreed to put my idea in the running, however, in order to win the money, they need votes.  The voters will decide who wins.

Right now, this idea is ranked at 225.  We need to be in the top 10 to win this money.

You can help me make this idea a reality by going to http://www.refresheverything.com/cansforcompanions
and vote for my idea.

You need to register to vote.  You will receive 10 votes per day but you can only vote for a specific project once a day.  The other 9 you can help others receive grants to.

Please, as a personal favor to me, pledge that you will go to the website and vote everyday through the month of July.

Also, please pass along this information to all your contacts.  Anyone from anywhere can vote.  They do not need to be residents of Kanawha county.

I plead with you to take this project very seriously and make a commitment to vote once a day.

Last year thousands of animals lots their lives because of lack of resources at our shelter.  This costs you nothing except a few minutes of your time each day this month.

Thank you so much for helping me make this dream a reality.

Forward this e-mail on to your other contacts.  This is really important!

This program will help set-up a can collection program that will help fund the shelter for years to come. Sounds like a win-win situation for the dogs and the environment. I just put my vote in. How about you?

Comments

  1. Pat Harold says:

    Jamie, thank you so much for your blog information. I really appreciate you taking your time in getting the word out for this extremely important cause. A big thank you to flowershopnetwork to for creating this outlet for information.

    If anyone should have any additional questions, please feel free to call me at 304-776-0058 or you can e-mail me at pat@crosslanesfloral.com.

    Thank you for all who choose to help us help our shelter save lives and the planet!

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