May 17, 2008
The Great Shanghaiist Benefit for Earthquake Victims at Sasha's
UPDATE: More than RMB 20,000 in lucky draw prizes donated so far! More details here.
What: Shanghaiist’s Benefit for Sichuan’s Earthquake Victims
When: This Wednesday- May 21st, 2008
Where: Sasha’s Restaurant and Bar (rain or shine)
11 Dongping Lu, near Hengshan Lu (东平路11弄，近衡山路)
Time: 6pm-10pm
The Deal: BBQ with sausages, burgers, chicken kebabs, short ribs, salad bar, AND free flow Stella Artois beer. Veggie options will also be available.
Cost: 180RMB (100% of proceeds, NOT profit, will be donated). That means every jiao of the 180rmb will go the charity - thanks to Sasha’s, their meat supplier, Glory, and Stella Artois’ generous donations!
Charity: China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (We chose this organization because it was recommended by the American Chamber of Commerce and is known for it’s long term development work as well as emergency relief.)
Reason to join: We know many people may have benefit fatigue (if there is such a thing) after a weekend chockfull of wonderful events. However, everyone needs to eat dinner on a Wednesday night and, did I mention, the free flow Stella Artois? Also, it’s the right thing to do.
Bonus: We will hold a lucky draw for prizes that have kindly been donated for our Earthquake Benefit. Example of prizes are Howard Johnson Hotel suite vouchers, private golf lessons, restaurant coupons, and -everyone’s favorite- Shanghaiist t-shirts! (More donations needed, please.)
Hope to see everyone on Wednesday!
If you're on Facebook, please RSVP at our Facebook event page and be Shanghaiist's fan on Facebook if you're not one yet! [Note: RSVP not required to attend] We are also still looking for corporate sponsors to match the funds we receive as well as raffle prize donations. Please contact Shanghaiist at csrshanghai (at) gmail (dot) com to donate!
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This is very generous of the organizers to basically throw in the food, drink, and service as their donation for the event.
However, I am wondering if the organizers will consider the following:
- Provide a means for patrons to voluntarily contribute to the cost of food and beverage (which the management can elect to just add to the donation or to use it to offset their costs.
- Provide a similar means for attendees to give their usual and customary tips to the staff, which the staff may, at their option, either keep it, or donate it themselves.
There is no benefit fatigue with me here.
A_B - All proceeds will go to charity. Of course there will be opportunities to give more. Please leave your suggestions for more ways we can raise money - everything is appreciated.
On top of what was written,
- Justbeer.cn are putting up a raffle prize of 5 cases of fosters, and another prize of 2 cases of Crown lager.
- An anonymous donor is going to match what we raise with 50% of his own money... so your 180rmb actually equates to 270rmb!!!
You really should sell tickets online so that people who couldn't come can still "buy" a ticket, and have it counted toward the 50% match.
AB, thanks for the great tips. If you or anyone else out there, could help set it up, that would be great. However, Shanghaiist definitely lacks the technical expertise to do that ourselves, especially with such a short timeline.
Post with all the donors listed will be out shortly!
Yeah, that is indeed very generous of Sashas :)
Unfortunately I'm in SWE at the moment so I cannot come, but I still donated money being in sweden.
I'm crossing my fingers for this hopefully very successful event!
Thank you all so much for doing this!
There is a lot of support happening all over. In terms of ideas for generating donations, talk to the guy at Ningboguide.com. They just raised 450K RMB at their BBQ.
I am pretty certain that with the backing of Shanghaiist and Sasha's, the money raised will actually get to the agency that can do some good where it is needed. However, I have my doubts about some of the activities being promoted out there and urge everyone to not give blindly and ask for transparency in the distribution of donations.
Absolutely terrific that you guys have organized this. See you there.