Change For China: our first fundraiser

It's official, the ball is rolling. We have started our first fundraiser! We decided to call this one "Change For China". We are asking friends and family to spare their loose change to help change the life of an orphan by supporting our adoption.

We created these little containers with our 'Change For China" sticker and started handing them out this week.

 

The containers are plastic Gerber baby food containers. Since we are still feeding these to Jacob there is no actual 'cost' for the containers themselves.

We found the image for the top of the container on istockphoto.com. It cost a whopping $2 and was exactly what we wanted.

The sticker paper we printed the image on cost $12 online. And my super-handy hubby had a fantastic tool called a 'buscuit cutter' that made cutting the slot in the top of the lid super easy (it definitely could have been done with a box knife and more time). These should hold up pretty well and be able to recirculate several times.

The goal of this fundraiser is to fill 60 containers and raise the $300 we will need to cover our application fee to our agency. Each container will likely hold more than $5, but the 60 containers are just our shot at the moon so we can land among the stars. Submitting our application to our placing agency will be the very first step in our adoption.

So far our container at home collected $16.67 (thank you couch cushions, drawers and cupboards!) and we have had 5 family members volunteer to fill containers with us. Just 54 containers to go!