Blue Ribbon Dresses MFB Fundraiser!

Thanks so much to everyone who helped with our Yankee Candle Fundraiser for our March for Babies Team! It was a great success with almost $100 raised!

But we're not done yet! The March for Babies is about 2 months away and we're still going strong! This week's fundraiser is for every little princess out there because for every donation you make to our team, you're entered to win an every day princess dress of your choosing!

A college friend of mine, Casey, married another college friend and they have 2 beautiful little girls. Sadly, her mom passed away last year from colorectal cancer and from that, she started Blue Ribbon Dresses to raise money for Fight Colorectal Cancer. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month! Every dress made is not only a cute dress for your little one but you're also helping fund a young scientist's research grant whose focus is late stage colon cancer.

Casey is super talented and her dresses are adorable so we've joined forces to give one lucky Team Pepka Twins supporter a princess dress of their choice for the princess in their lives!

So how does it work? Simply go to our Team Page and donate! I will get a message saying you donated and put your name on a spreadsheet. Every $5 donation will get you ONE (1) entry. Every $20 will get you a bonus entry! So if you donate $20 you will get FIVE (5) instead of 4 entries.




The fundraiser will be open until Friday at 12pm PST. All donations made between now and then will be entered in the drawing. I will pick a random number on Friday and the name that is next to that number on the spreadsheet will be the winner! I'll announce the winner on the blog and send them an email. Fundraiser open to US residents and ANYONE can win (yes, even my mom...she was mad last time that she couldn't win, but I'll let family members names go on the list too this time since they're some of my biggest supporters, but there will be no preference. Names go on the spreadsheet in order of donation and the winner will be completely random)

Can't donate but still want to help? I'm offering an entry for every share on Facebook/Twitter/Blog/Social media of your choice! Simply share this post or our Team Page for donations and share the link in the comments below and tell me which princess dress you'd pick if you won! You can check out all of the princess dresses on Blue Ribbon Dresses Etsy page! Every share will get you ONE (1) entry! I will put your name on the list as I get your comments.

If a walker on our team led you to this page and you want to donate to them, you can find a list of the team members at the bottom of our team page. Simply click on their name and you can donate to them! Doesn't matter who gets it, we are all working towards the same goal to help all babies be born full term and healthy!

 

Questions? You can email me at Emily{dot}pepka{at}gmail{dot}com.

Want a Blue Ribbon Dress of your own? Check out Casey on Facebook and Etsy!

Good luck everyone and thanks for helping Team Pepka Twins as we March for Babies and Blue Ribbon Dresses!

Baby Madness!

It's time for another fun fundraiser for the March for Babies, this one is March Madness inspired...and a way to con my brothers to all donate by doing something they will like for once ;)

What better way to enjoy March Madness and raise some money for healthy babies then with a pool!

The details:

• $10 buy in.
• 50% of the money raised will go to the March for Babies and Team Pepka Twins!
• The other 50% goes to the lucky winner! 

Because I want as many people as possible to get involved and I don't want living nearby to be a restriction I've come up with a plan that requires you to have an espn.com account and a paypal account. According to my brother, these are both things that all people old enough to participate should have. If you don't, they're both easy and free to start up. Tom and I will probably both have brackets, but we're not eligible to win ;)

First, send your $10 buy in through paypal to emily.pepka@gmail.com. I'll keep all the money on my account there. When the game locks when the tournament starts I'll let everyone know how much the winner will receive. The other half will be donated to our March for Babies team! If you transfer the money via credit card, there will be a small fee, just say that I will pay the fee. There's no fee for a bank account transfer. Just depends on what you have on your paypal. Either one will work, both are safe and secure ways to transfer money...and probably safer than in your buddy's hat in his room waiting until the end of the tournament. You can do this any time starting now. I'll send reminders to everyone who enters when the brackets become available.

Second, fill out your bracket on ESPN as part of the Team Pepka Twins group. You can check on there as the tournament goes on how you're doing.

At the end, whoever has the winning bracket I will send you your winning $$$ through paypal again.

There's no limit to how many brackets you enter. $10 per bracket.

Hopefully this is a way everyone is comfortable with. I've debated a gift basket or a gift card for the winner and everyone just donating to our March for Babies team, but when it comes down to it, I know a lot of you would prefer the cash.

This will also hopefully encourage you to share this fundraiser and get more people involved...after all, the more people who participate, the greater the winning amount will be....and the more money donated to the March of Dimes! Everyone is invited to play, they don't need to be my bff or anything, so please share with your friends and all basketball lovers that you know.

Selection Sunday is March 17 and March Madness kicks off March 19. All entries must be in by then and the pool will lock. The Championship is April 8 and the winner will receive their money the next day.

Questions, comments, concerns, things I didn't mention on here, please let me know!

Thanks everyone for participating!! and thanks for helping babies! Good Luck!