Promo Products on the Charity Auction Block
Wednesday February 24, 2010 | Filed under:
The administrative team at ASI - spearheaded by Carole Seymour - organized a silent auction to benefit the Bucks County chapter of the American Red Cross. Over two days, employees bid on an eclectic array of items furnished by the editorial department, from a glittery Obama T-shirt and turkey fryer to a golf bag and ukulele.
The auction raised $1,447, with the highest bid going for the Obama shirt. Personally, I was angling for the ukulele.
The auction is one effort among many. Since 2003, ASI has helped raise nearly $2 million in cash and goods for worthy causes. That amount includes $620,000 for the American Red Cross to assist hurricane victims, over $25,000 for the Adopt-A-Family program, five tons of donated items to food banks and homeless shelters, $60,000 to PPEF (an industry education fund), chairman Norman Cohn and his family's efforts to raise about $1 million for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (http://www.cohnsisters.com/), and over $64,000 for a food bank I helped establish in my Indiana hometown of Hope.
It's gratifying to know that even when times are tough - perhaps especially when times are tough - we can count on each other to help those in need.
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