We would like to invite all GiveForward users to tune in OR join us tonight at Raven (Clark and Belden) to watch Ariana, our director of marketing, as she gets made over on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style on Bravo TV.  The show airs tonight at 9pm CST.

For those of you able to make it to our Launch Party in August, you just might catch a glimpse of yourself during the final scene, where they do a brief follow-up on Ariana.

Tell us what you think of the show!

GiveForward wants to give a shout out to Aron “the fundraising dominator” Grossman for being the first GFer in GiveForward history to reach 100% of his fundraising goal.

This fundraising stud is raising money for the Fresh Air Fund, an organization that provides free summer vacations to inner-city kids from NYC. You can check out his page here.

Aron is one of over forty people running in GiveForward’s Run for a Reason five-mile fun run next weekend in New York City. Although Aron has admittedly never run five consecutive miles in his life, Aron decided to be like Gheorghe Muresan, and “score one for the kids.” Way to go, Aron!!

For all the ladies out there, you can catch a glympse of this big-hearted, fundraising stud at 8:30 AM on October 26th as he completes his history making, first ever, five mile run through Central Park.

Anyway, if you’re reading this Aron, we just wanted to say “Congratulations” on this monumental accomplishment. GiveForward will be sending you a congratulatory bottle of Gheorghe Mursesan cologne for your efforts.

On October 26th 2008 GiveForward will be in New York ‘running for a reason’ to raise money for our favorite charities in the Poland Springs New York Marathon Kickoff Fun Run.

We aren’t in good enough shape to run the NY Marathon, but we’re pretty confident we can conquer a five mile fun run through Central Park. The idea behind ‘Run for a Reason’ is that unlike most charity races where everyone runs for the same charity, with this event, you get to run for the charity or cause that is most important to YOU.

If you are interested in joining us, send us an email (ethan@giveforward.org) and let us know, sign up for your GF fundraising page, and make sure to register for the race before Oct 11th. It’s $25 to register. $30 after the 11th. You can register at http://www.nyrr.org/races/2008/r1026×00.asp

Hope to see you all out there!

Hey there friendly friends…I wanted to write a quick note to introduce myself, and let you know that you can expect to see me here pretty regularly to let you know how the Million4Obama campaign.  As you may or may not know, we’re trying to get a million people to give just one dollar to the Barack Obama war chest, and pledge to vote on November 4th.

So far, we’re at 464 dollars.  Not exactly a million, but it’s a real good start.  So tell all your friends, forward this link around: Million4Obama.com, and get out the vote!  It’s an important one this time around, if you hadn’t heard.

Anyhow, keep checking back on the site here, to see the fun and excitement I have to offer for your reading pleasure.  The suspense, I’m sure, is palpable…

We have come to the finish line of our week-long fund race, and after counting every last penny, we are happy to Congratulate Priya Patel as our fund race winner!

Priya raised $550 for her fundraiser “Bring Bouba Back” and GiveForward will recognize her impressive efforts with a check for $100.

We also want to congratulate everyone who participated and made GiveForward’s first fund race a success. Collectively, you raised a little over $1400 in seven days, each helping make a difference for the fundraiser of your choice.

If you missed this fund race, Stay tuned to GiveForward for future competitions. Thanks again everyone!