200 Red Envelopes for Ella

Gong Xi Fa Cai! 

Today is Chinese New Year, and marks the beginning of the Year of the Horse!  It also marks the beginning of my next and biggest fundraiser, 200 Red Envelopes for Ella.

Red is a color that symbolizes luck in China.  On Chinese New Year, gifts of money are given in a red envelope to signify wishes of wealth and good fortune for the coming year.

While this fundraiser will involve more virtual red envelopes than real ones, I do hope that it comes with wishes of good fortune and prayers for sweet Ella as she is preparing to come home in 2014!

How it works:

Step 1: Go to the Facebook Page “200 Red Envelopes for Ella” and join the page.  Please feel free to invite your friends! (The way it is set up, I will have to approve people.  I will stay on top of this as much as is possible!)

Step 2: Choose the envelope you want.  There are 200 envelopes, numbered 1-200.  There are three ways to participate:

1. You can choose the number of an envelope and donate that amount.  If you choose 47, for example, you would donate $47 dollars.
2. You can ask me to choose an envelope for you (by giving me a range or knowing that the range is 1-200).  If you give me a range of 25-35, you would be given an envelope in that range.  If you were given envelope 33, you would donate $33. 
3. You can get together with a group of friends (from work, school, church, etc.) and choose an envelope that way.  Some of the “higher” amount envelopes would be great candidates for this method of donation.  So if you and your friends commit to envelope 153, you would collect and donate $153. 

Step 3:  Go to my Fundly page and donate the amount that corresponds to the envelope you chose!  (If you would prefer not to donate online but want to participate, please do not let that deter you.  Email me or contact me on Facebook and I will share my mailing address with you.)

Step 4:  Celebrate!  You just helped in an awesome way! 

NOTE:  I will try to keep up with the envelopes being taken on the Facebook page.  Please feel free to post on the page “I’m taking envelope 24!” or I will post later “Envelope 24 is taken!”  It is important to do this so we don’t have duplicates of each envelope.  If you choose to do multiple envelopes (which is a blessing but not a request!), please indicate that to me as well.  

Thank you SO much for your continued support as I go throughout this process.  I appreciate everyone continuing to ask about Ella even though I don’t have any updates.  J  I am very blessed to be surrounded by such a caring community that is so excited to welcome Ella home.