Charity

Well folks, we’re seven days into the Kilted to Kick Cancer 2014 Fundraising Challenge, and we’ve already raised over $2,000. Team standings as of noon CST, September 8 are: Team Donors Totals Team HBC Concealment 7 578 Team Borepatch 12 570 Undesignated 6 285 Team Old NFO 6 250 Team JayG 5 195 Team McThag 4 195 Team Ambulance Driver ...

Originally, I had planned a day at the lake on the jet ski, but bad weather changed those plans, so today is housekeeping day. As of 11:00 CST yesterday, my total in the fundraising challenge was $150, neck and neck with Team McThag and Team Borepatch for third place. Donations overall were $1530. That’s good, but we’d like it to ...

No new kilted pics today, given that I’m at work, so here’s one for you from 2011: Do me a huge favor, and click on this link. Pick “Team Ambulance Driver” from the drop down menu, and make a fully tax-deductible donation to benefit male-specific cancer research. It’s important.

Have you joined the Kilted Army? Prize packages for the fundraising challenge are coming together, with some really nice schwag still yet to be added. Sixteen fundraisers have set up teams, a number of supporters have pledged a portion of their business profits in September to KTKC, and the momentum keeps growing. But we still need YOU to support us. ...

There have been some big changes with Kilted to Kick Cancer in the past month, the biggest of which is our official 501(c)3 charity designation! If you plan to be one of our Kilted Fundraisers for 2014, we have a little change in the usual process. Just drop an email to [email protected], and tell him the name of the fundraising ...

Are you ready? We’ve raised over $50,000 in just 90 days over the past three years, and it’s just going to get bigger, and be a year-round thing from now on. Why, do you ask? Because Kilted to Kick Cancer is now a registered 501(c)3 charity! That’s right, what you helped start as a grassroots fundraising and awareness campaign has ...

… to donate to The Code Green Campaign. Your donations go to startup costs for registering The Code Green Campaign as a 501(c)3 charity dedicated to awareness, education and peer support for EMS and public safety professionals suffering from depression, PTSD and other mental illness. Their aim is to erase the stigma associated with provider mental illness, encourage our colleagues ...

Read about Amanda Bernier, an volunteer firefighter and EMT from Madison, CT diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Amanda and her husband Chris are volunteers at North Madison Volunteer Fire Company.  Amanda was diagnosed just a few days after the joyous news that she and Chris were pregnant with their first child. In a cruel twist, Amanda ...

I know it seems that I post a lot of requests for charitable donations here on the blog. Well, at least it seems that way to me. But I’m really not a sucker for every cause that crosses my path, and I do get quite a few requests to publicize this or that cause. Enough so, that if I posted ...

Folks, normally on this blog I only shill for charities. Well, mostly just one charity in particular, but you get the point. But of all the folks who donated so generously to that charity, the gun nut community gave the most by far. I’m asking you to help out a couple of members of our community, namely Sabra and Erik ...

There are a few firearms supply vendors that make it a point to be good community partners. They’re listed over there on the right sidebar, and I encourage you to click the links and shop with them whenever possible. When I went out, hat in hand, to find donors for the Kilted to Kick Cancer Fundraising Challenge, these guys stepped ...

For those of you who donated to Jeff Brosius' Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraising campaign, you may recall that he pledged to wear a kilt to Epic Duck Hunt 2013 if you helped him meet his fundraising goal. You did, and he did. Here's the video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47stN56VPlQ&feature=youtu.be

Go read about Eric Fritz and the ultimate sacrifice he made to save his sister. And then, if you can spare a little, donate to the EMS scholarship founded in his memory.

Yes, I know I'm late getting this done. Sorry, but life intervened. For those of you who donated to my Kilted to Kick Cancer 2013 fundraising campaign, a $20 donation got you one chance for a $200 Brownell's gift card, and $10 got you a chance at a signed copy of my book. I entered all participants into an Excel ...

And that goes for the guys in my raffle, too. Your humble host has fallen down on the job in getting the winners in touch with the respective prize donors, but I promise you I will rectify that this weekend. Keep an eye on your inboxes.