Total: $550.00 — What a year!
I was very surprised this year when I started seeing the dollar amounts of the donations coming in. As with last year, my expectations were set pretty low. I don’t expect, nor do I ask anyone to send in more than just a couple dollars. I always thought if a lot of people sent in just a few bucks – that would yield a huge amount. Thankfully the opposite happens. We had just 17 people donate but the amount each person sent in was very generous.
$550.00 (Paypal fees / deduction – $21.14) = $528.86 to be given to the DFGI.
The Big Donor
A gorilla-size thanks must go to Samuel Windham this year. His record setting donation of a $150.00 blew my mind and was more than SBG raised last year. Not only is he extremely generous with his wallet but he has also agreed to share the “memento” that I was only going to give to the biggest donor.
Due to the size of our collection, I decided to change the breakdown of the donation to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and in turn give a few more top donors a memento.
The top 5 donors along with our big donor will receive a DFGI adoption certificate with Artie’s name on it. There should be a couple little extras along with that. The same thing Artie was presented to last year by Steve Langford. Note: I think they have changed the certificate design from last year. Click here to see it.
Samuel Windham (mother and infant certificate)
Thomas Nealon (baby gorilla certificate)
Mark Harrison (baby gorilla certificate)
Linda Leiva (baby gorilla certificate)
Allison (baby gorilla certificate)
Scott Gotshall (baby gorilla certificate)
* Steve Langford will also be receiving one as well for the great job mentioning this on the show. A very special thanks goes to him.
As with last year, a small part of the money will be to register Save Baby Gorilla as a member of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.
Thank you all for your donations. No donation was too small. You all have made this a successful year and I look forward to next year – if Artie is still on the show. LOL
I will email each of the people above and verify your address to send you the package. Please wait a few weeks for everything to go through.
Lanford definitely did crowbar a few plugs for you into his news segments on the show.
He did a great job of that this year and last year.
That’s awesome!!. Everyone really pitched in. What a great year for savebabygorilla.
And thanks Samuel for sharing! That was thoughtful.
Glad to spread the love Allison, and congrats Matt, on such a successful year!