Autism rally and fundraiser

Last Tuesday, the Ohio Autism Taskforce had their annual Autism Awareness Month Rally. Sage and I were there, along with several of her "people." She has an entourage :-) At the rally, we advertised our connection with 4 Paws, and encouraged people to come to our fundraiser that evening to learn more about service dogs.

It was our biggest fundraiser to date. We earned $2000 total from a project we did at Scottie Macbean's, a local cafe. We had a silent auction of donated goods that brought in $1000, "I helped Sage get a Dog" signs that people purchased for a donation of any size brought us about $500, and we got a final $500 from the cafe itself, who donated 20% of their profits on food and coffee sales for the last 5 hours of the night. This fundraiser could not have succeeded without the hours of effort of many volunteers, from therapists, to family friends, to complete strangers. It was a beautiful thing. It was a significant amount of work, but it was fun since we all shared the work.

WE ARE NOW HALFWAY TO THE $12,000 WE NEED TO GET OUR DOG!!!

Thank you to everyone who has helped so far. Let's keep the ball rolling!