The Frederick Rugby Football Club has teamed up with the Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation to bring Flashgiving to Frederick. It's an AWESOME idea -- a flashmob for a cause!! And all it takes is a couple of cans of food and LITERALLY a few minutes of your time. A time-lapse style video will go up online afterward, showing vital donations for the local food bank piling up -- and showing the Interwebs the type of good a rugby team can do with its community connections. Please help make this event a big success!
At 4:30 p.m. this Saturday, May 12, drop by the food bank at 14 E. All Saints St. (at the Frederick Community Action Agency, between Market and Carroll) and put a few cans in the Flashgiving bins out front. THAT'S IT! THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO!! How easy is that??
OK there's one more thing: A key component of a flashmob is getting people involved by spreading the word electronically, via social media, email etc. So it's CRITICAL to spread the word! Please share this blog post and/or the Facebook event I've set up, either on your Facebook page, or your Twitter account, or email it to your friends, text them about it -- anything you can think of to help spread the word. It's so easy! Even if you can't participate Saturday, PLEASE tell your friends, who may tell their friends, etc., etc. Again, here's the URL: http://www.facebook.com/events/408160169215059/
This is such a neat way to DO GOOD and HAVE FUN (that's a tenet of the Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation, and one the rugby community is especially well-equipped to employ). It's not just Saturday's event we're trying to promote -- it's the idea of Flashgiving in general: that a sports team (or Scout troop or a club or anyone!) can use the spirit of flashmob to HELP their community in some way -- a flash food drive, flash park cleanup, flash painting party ... the possibilities are endless). Instead of a few people having to do a ton of work, it's MANY people each doing his or her SMALL PART together to do some good -- in a FUN way.
DO GOOD. HAVE FUN. ... Flashgiving!!
Questions? Call/text/email me (amymarie06@gmail.com/301.807.9757).
P.S. If you're wondering where this idea came from, here it is: In Germantown, Md., last year (where I live), a group of youths ROBBED a convenience store in a flashmob: It was a flashrobbery. I was disturbed that people were using the fun spirit of flashmob to perpetrate a crime. As I drove past that store one day, I thought of the young people I know who'd be moved by this -- moved to take action in a different way ... to use flashmob for GOOD. The opposite of a flashrobbery would be ... what? A flash ... giving! I thought immediately of Stone and Holt Weeks, two young men I never met but whose lives and legacy have had a profound effect on me and scores of others. (You can read about them here.) Through Stone and Holt's parents and their foundation, I've met so many inspiring young people carrying on that legacy. These people, I thought, would TOTALLY DIG a do-good flashmob. And in fact, the foundation was already working on a similar idea ... and from there, Flashgiving was conceived. Please help us bring it to life!
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