Shanghaiist has been nonstop busy for the past several days fielding emails and returning calls from companies interested in donating to the raffle at ‘The Great Shanghaiist Benefit for Earthquake Victims at Sasha's’. It’s a great reason to feel overworked.

How the raffle works: Everyone who attends the BBQ for dinner will get one chance to win a prize. If you want to donate additional money to our designated charity, the Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, and have a greater chance of winning prizes, you can buy more tickets for 50RMB each.

Within a short time, we have managed to put together well over 20,000RMB worth of prizes, not including our wonderful sponsors' donations for the BBQ: Sasha’s Bar and Restaurant, Glory, and Stella Artois.

As an added bonus, a mysterious donor has said they will match 50% of the funds raised for the evening. That means, when you pay 180RMB for the BBQ and free flow beer, 270RMB will be donated to the charity! Yes, you heard that right! Nobody is going to make any money on that day, so every single cent is going straight to charity!

Here is the current list of our generous donors and their fabulous prizes:
American Craft Beer Partners: 1 case each of Rogue American Amber Ale, Brooklyn East India Pale Ale, and Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Andy Campell Photography: Autographed print of Zhang Liangwei
Anonymous donor: 50% matching funds
Bakerzin: Ten 100RMB vouchers
"Circus Night" Fashion Show: 4 Tickets to event. Valued at 100rmb each.
Classic travel: 500RMB voucher for international travel.
Daedalum Films: Video for the benefit
Dragonfly: 1-Everlasting Romance Massage Package and 1-Facial treatment. Valued at over 1,900RMB.
Dyrberg/Kern: Five pieces of fashion jewelry valued at over 5,000RMB
Eno: 10 shirts. Valued at 1600RMB.
Glory: BBQ Meat
Greenovate and Jooi Design: 4 Reuse.bags valued at 100RMB each.
Hands on Shanghai: Volunteers
Hill and Knowlton: PR services
House of Flour: Two 1kg cake vouchers with value of 200rmb each and 600rmb gift certificates.
Hotel Equatorial: One night weekend stay in a Club room. Valued at 3,000rmb.
Eastern Empire Distributing: 3 bottles of premium Russian Vodka
Force 8 Cellars: 1 bottle of saffron gin, vodka, and wine.
Howard Johnson Hotel Zhangjiang Shanghai: Two Prestige Hotel Suite Vouchers. Valued at over 2,500rmb each.
International Channel Shanghai: Benefit TV Coverage
Justbeer.cn: 5 cases of Fosters Beer and 2 cases of Crown Beer. Valued at over 2,100
King Harvest: Shanghai Street photo album 10 pcs valued at RMB2900, Siemens coffee pot 10 pcs valued at RMB10000, and Schwarzkopf got2b hair styling product 40 pcs valued at RMB2400.
Launch Bags: 5 Designer bags
Live Mic Musical: 2 pairs of free tickets for their upcoming concerts valued at 80mb each.
Manifesto.com.cn: Ten 50RMB vouchers.
Mekong River Vietnamese Restaurant: Ten 150RMB vouchers.
Merry Edwards Wines: 4 bottles of California Wines. Valued at 700rmb each.
Montpelier: Aspara Spa package valued at 1300RMB
Ocean's Bridge: Framed 20X24 inch portrait of your choice.
PAW Vet Clinic: 1,000rmb voucher for pet dental services.
Sasha's Restaurant and Bar: BBQ venue, staff, food, and much time and energy from their outstanding manager- Steven Burns!
Shanghai Pie Company: 3 x 200RMB vouchers for pies
Shanghai Studio: 2 Bottles sparkling wine
Shanghaiist: The highly sought after, vintage Shanghaiist t-shirts.
Silport David Leadbetter Golf Academy: Two 1hr golf lesson certificates. Valued at 800 RMB each.
Southern Barbarian Yunnan Food: Two 500RMB vouchers.
Stella Artois: BBQ Beer
twocities: Voucher towards any art or jewelry.
Yue Foundation: Photography services
Zapata’s Mexican Cantina: 100% of door fees for this Wednesday evening. (That means after supporting the benefit at Sasha’s, you can head over to Zapata’s to continue your night dedicated to charity!)

Also, Hands on Shanghai, will have staff at the event to start signing up volunteers for their 'Hands on Chengdu' project in Sichuan province.

There is still time to donate if you or your company would like to sponsor the earthquake benefit by matching funds or donating raffle prizes. Please contact Shanghaiist at csrshanghai (at) gmail (at) com.