Red Cross Banner

Given the massive destruction of property and lives that happened in Japan, people always wonder how they can help. Internationally, the Red Cross does an amazing job in my opinion and I quickly donated and wanted to put a banner linking to their donation page on my site.

I wasn’t happy with the sizes or styles of banners they had available so I created this one. It links directly to their donation page where you can designate your donation to the efforts in Japan.

If you would like to use it as well, all you need to do is grab the following html.

<a href=”http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000&s_subsrc=RCO_BigRedButton/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss159/BearmanCartoons/RedCrosscopy.jpg
” border=”0″ alt=”Red Cross Banner” /></a>

Beartoons Charity Drive

No this isn’t one of those things where I ask you to support my site with a donation or buy raffle tickets

Readers from early on here will remember back in November I reported on some local bloggers (Cincinnati Blog and Cincinnati Beacon) throwing down challenges to other bloggers to raise money for the FreeStore FoodBank.  The FreeStore does a lot of great things locally to help families in need.

With so many people out of jobs, I have been fortunate to keep working.   So while I am by no means a rich guy, I felt it was important to do something to help others.  The FreeStore is a great beneficiary because donors tend to forget about them unless there is a holiday coming up.  So in honor of the launch of my new website URL, beartoons.com, and the celebration of another decade type birthday milestone this month, I am issuing this challenge to help raise money.  I will donate the indicated amount for each thing that you do in the month of June:

$10 – Add http://beartoons.com to your blog roll (for those who don’t already have it)

$10 – Blog about my challenge to your readers and link back to this entry in your post – http://beartoons.com/2009/06/01/beartoonscharitydrive/

$2 – Follow me via TWITTER updates. (if you aren’t already)

$2 – For each Tweet that you include a link back to this challenge (once per day up to 5x)

If you add me to your blog roll, include this challenge in a post, or start following me via twitter because of this post please indicate in the comments.  If you tweet, just make sure to put @bearmancartoons somewhere in it and I’ll be able to account for it.

I am going to give a minimum of $100 so if no one takes me up on the challenge, at least someone will benefit with a maximum I am looking to do is $500, which I hope you will help me achieve.  I’ll post a weekly update of the money raised and who did what to raise the money with links back to your site if applicable.

Bearman Cartoon: Freestore Foodbank Blogger Challenge

Remember, the first 10 blogs to add this site to their blog roll, I will donate $20 per to the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati.

Donating to the Freestore Foodbank

Looks like several Cincinnati based blogs are challenging each other to have their readers donate the most money to the Freestore Foodbank (a local organization that provides food and clothing to those in need). See The Cincinnati Beacon, The Cincinnati Blog, and County Commissioner David Pepper’s Blog.

Given that I have started archiving my toons here, I put out my own challenge to the bloggers. The first ten blogs that link back to my site in their blog roll, I will donate $20. Just email me if you do. Hoping to be able to donate $200.