I'm currently heading a fundraiser for Kids Need To Read, in honor of co-founder and actor Nathan Fillion's birthday this year, March 27th. We have some great items that will be raffled off to entice you to donate: a Serenity comic autographed by Alan Tudyk, a copy of Waitress which Nathan kindly autographed for us and a bill (money) from the set of Serenity, also autographed by Nathan. In addition to those items, I will be sending a birthday card to Nathan, and if you donate, your name and a small, personal message will be included with the card.

If you donate, make sure you send a copy of your receipt to nathanfillionfans@gmail.com, so that we can be sure to put your name into the drawing for the autographed items.

We have a few NEW items that we are raffling off to help raise money for Kids Need To Read:

1 copy of Serenity comic, autographed by Alan Tudyk
1 copy of Waitress DVD, autographed by Nathan Fillion
1 set prop, a bill (money) from the movie Serenity, autographed by Nathan Fillion

These will be raffled off as follows:

For those who donate in ANY dollar amount, your name will be entered into the drawing for the Serenity comic.

For those who donate $50 or more, your name will be entered into the drawing for the Waitress DVD.

For those who donate $75 or more, your name will be entered into the drawing for the bill (money) from the set of Serenity.

Anyone who donates may send us a copy of their receipt, with a small, personal message to be placed into Nathan's birthday card.

Donate now for your chance to win!

A little about the foundation:

Kids Need to Read is a national nonprofit charity focusing on promoting childhood literacy and addressing the deplorable state of library funding that currently exists in the United States. Donating exciting, new books to schools, public libraries, health clinics and shelters in need, the foundation works to develop a lifelong love of reading in all children.

The highly praised Kids Need to Read book donation list features the best of contemporary reading material to appeal to the sensibilities of today’s youth, including the most reluctant of readers. Whether it is giving free comics and Highlights for Children magazines to homeless children or providing the first books to a charter school with no library, Kids Need to Read focuses on one goal – getting kids to pick up something to read and never wanting to stop.

Kids Need to Read works to create a culture of reading for children by providing inspiring books to under-funded schools, libraries, and literacy programs across the United States, especially those serving disadvantaged children.

Donations are made one of two ways: You can visit the site and donate via paypal (you do not need a paypal account to donate!) by clicking the following link – http://www.kidsneedtoread.org/…..onate.html OR you can mail your donation to the address below:

Kids Need to Read
124 South 54th Street #65
Mesa, AZ 85206

Check out the Facebook site for more information:
http://www.facebook.com/event……1625673214

If everything goes well with this, our first fundraiser, then we hope to do it again next year. I only decided to do this last month, so I realize it's short notice, but it's totally worth it!

Nev ~ I got your email and responded. :)

Thanks to everyone who has donated so far and keep the donations coming!!!

I finally got pics up of the autographed items.  You can view them here!

The 'Waitress' DVD is still to be signed and will be directly shipped from Kids Need To Read foundation once the winner's name has been chosen.

There's still time to get your donations and personal birthday message in the birthday card, so please donate if you can and help support Nathan's foundation.  Don't forget to email a copy of your receipt to nathanfillionfans@gmail.com so we can get your name into the drawing!

Donate here!

That would be from Deb, who runs the fundraising portion of the foundation.  She's a sweetheart and a pleasure to work with! 

Deb,

Nathan did receive his card and from what I hear, he was very pleased with how the fundraiser turned out.  Our final total raised was $1066 and we are working on some great auction items for next year. 

DJ Pheonyx, do you have a website for your Geek Prom & Celebrity Rock Band event?  I'd love to spread the word on the Nathan Fillion FANS site!  Good luck with your event!!!

Ok FANS, it's time to do this thing!  Last year, you helped raise over $1000 for Kids Need To Read in honor of Nathan's birthday.  This year, we are hoping to match or exceed that amount.  To that end, we've got some great raffle items and we're also issuing a creative challenge to you.

Just a few items we've been able to secure for this year's raffle are:

 
'Browncoats: Redemption' poster - Min donation $1

A 'Browncoats: Redemption' DVD signed by the cast – many thanks to Michael Dougherty, the writer and director of the fan film, for getting this for us!  You can purchase your own copy at http://www.browncoatsmovie.com/  - Min donation $5

1 'Wash is my co-pilot' License Plate Frame – Minimum donation $5

1 copy of 'Heat Wave' (paperback) by Richard Castle – Minimum donation $5

2 avatars (raffled separately) in the region of Moonshadow on InWorldz – made to your specifications, complete with job, residence, full inventory of clothing, weapons and ship, education, plus InWorldz currency and support from the creator of the Moonshadow world – Minimum donation $5  (check out http://www.inworldz.com/)

1 copy of 'Naked Heat' (hardback) by Richard Castle – Minimum donation $10

'Firefly/Serenity' DVD pack - Min donation $10
 

 2 SDCC Limited Edition Serenity: Better Days #1 comic books – minimum donation $10

1 Alan Tudyk autographed Serenity: Better Days #1 comic book – minimum donation $15
 

1 'Serenity' movie prop – Red Bill (money) – minimum donation $50

1 Nathan Fillion autographed 8x10 of Nathan as Richard Castle PLUS 'Castle' Season 1 & 2 DVD pack – minimum donation $75
Challenge Issued
 

One of the ideas that was brought to us was to replace this year's birthday card for Nathan with a birthday scrapbook.  While Nathan did receive and enjoy the birthday card with the messages, how great would it be for him to have a scrapbook that he could view any time he wishes that shows our love and appreciation for the entertainment he brings to our lives on a daily basis?

This is your chance to shine!  Show Nathan how much you care by designing your very own scrapbook page in honor of his birthday.  Get creative with your page – come up with a theme or simply show him who you are and how he's touched your life through his many television and movie roles.  Did you meet him and get a pic of the two of you together?  Use that experience as your muse and build a page around that memory. 

For a minimum donation of $5.00, we will include your personally designed 12 x 12 scrapbook page in any theme (birthday, Castle, Firefly, etc), INCLUDING your personal message to Nathan.  The personal message should be incorporated on the scrapbook page, not separately.  Your donation will also qualify you for raffle items.

No need to provide a sleeve for your page(s) – I will take care of that.  Simply mail me your scrapbook page(s), along with a printed (or emailed!) receipt of your Paypal donation to Kids Need To Read.

For those who donate items to our fundraiser to be raffled off, you are also eligible to submit a 12x12 scrapbook page!Rules for scrapbooking pages:

*No profanity.*  This is a gift for Nathan's birthday – there will be no need for curse words or anything derogatory.  Any page submitted that includes this type of thing WILL NOT be included.

*No requests for autographs, phone calls or dates.*  This is a gift FOR Nathan, not an opportunity to try to get something out of it for yourself.  Any page submitted that includes these requests WILL NOT be included.

*No nudity or offensive images.*  If you wouldn't want your family to see the picture, don't expect that Nathan would want to see it either.  We WILL NOT include naked pictures or anything remotely suggestive or offensive. Be respectful.

Please mail your scrapbook pages NO LATER THAN March 5th.  We need to make sure we have enough time to get the album to Nathan BEFORE his birthday.  If you are unable to donate money by that date, feel free to send the page ahead of time and email us the receipt at nathanfillionfans@gmail.com once you have donated – we will finalize the book and verify all donations before sending.

Send all pages w/receipt as proof of donation to:

Fillion FANS Fundraiser
1043 Margo Ct Unit B
Montrose CO 81401

How to donate:

Please visit http://www.kidsneedtoread.org/…..onate.html in order to donate to this year's Fillion FANS Fundraiser.  Make sure to include a note in the memo area that you are donating as part of the FANS Fundraiser so we can get you entered for all raffle items your donation makes you eligible for, otherwise we won't know to include you in the raffle.  Also be aware:  YOU DO NOT NEED A PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO DONATE.  Payments are taken via Paypal, but you are not required to set up an account with Paypal to submit your donation.

Don't forget to spread the word about the fundraiser!  100% of the money raised from the Fillion FANS Fundraiser goes DIRECTLY to Kids Need To Read.  Send the link to your parents, relatives, friends, co-workers or anyone else you can think of.  We have just a little over two months to make this happen, so let's get started!! All donations are 100% tax deductible!!!  

I'm sure it would travel just fine!  If it gets a little wrinkled, no big deal, because we'll put it in the book and it will get flattened in no time LOL.

Kelkoe ~

If you don't think the page will get to me by March 10th (cuz I'm moving March 11th), then you should send the page to Debb Brown w/KNTR since she is the one sending our scrapbook to Nathan.  I'll be mailing her the scrapbook with wrapping paper on the 11th, so the page needs to either be to the Fillion FANS address or you should just send to KNTR directly.  Make sure you also include a copy of your donation receipt with the page so that we can get your name entered into the raffle for the cool items we've got this year!

Their address is 101 W Main St, Ste 1, Mesa AZ 85201

~ Aimee

PS – We appreciate your scrapbook page contribution!

Nev – I HAD to use that pic – it tickles me so!

Kelkoe, if it said it would get here Monday, that usually means it will be here Wednesday.  I live in podunk USA LOL.