KHSS SharathonOur 2007 RadioThon will hit the airwaves from 6 am to 6 pm on Wednesday (9/26) through Friday (9/28). If you would like to participate, simply call in during those days and make your pledge. If you would like to participate in an unique way, consider these ideas:Matching Pledge With a matching pledge, you can challenge your fellow listeners to collectively "match" your pledge for a certain hour of the day. For example, let's suppose you want to make a matching pledge of $300. What we will then do is select an hour and make that hour a "matching pledge" hour for $300. That means that we'll challenge your fellow listeners to collectively pledge $300 or more during that hour in order to help us collect on your $300 matching pledge. Some people like to do "double match" or even "triple match" hours. This means they'll make a double matching pledge of, say, $300, but only require $150 of combined pledges during their hour (they end up paying a double match of the first $150 pledged during their hour). In the case of a "triple match" pledge of, say, $600, they'll end up paying a triple match of the first $200 pledged during their hour. Lots of possibilities here. Intra-Parish Challenge Do you have some fellow parishoners who listen to KHSS? Why not challenge them to support Catholic Radio? For example, you can make a pledge of, say, $200. Then you can challenge your fellow parishoners to match your pledge. You could even offer to DOUBLE your pledge if a certain number of your fellow parishoners match your $200 pledge. Last year, one of the Tri-Cities parishes did this, and raised over $1000 for KHSS. Inter-Parish Challenge Want to get a little friendly rivalry going with the parish across town? Call up some of your fellow parishoners and get them to contribute to a "parish pledge". Then challenge the other parishes to match your pledge. Prayer-Group Challenge Perhaps you're a member of a prayer group or a Cursillo reunion group. Why not get your prayer partners together and collectively challenge other prayer groups to match your group's pledge? Family Challenge Are you from a big family? Have you ever thought of publicly challenging your siblings to match your pledge? We've had families do that in past RadioThons; it's a lot of fun to listen to. Family Match Maybe instead of publicly challenging your siblings to match your pledge, you would rather get together with your siblings, pool together your resources and sponsor a "family hour." The Klein family (Adolph's and Lorraine's), for example, made sure that all of their family members participated last year and the result was astounding. That family alone and the hours they sponsored raised several thousand dollars for KHSS. It was truly awe-inspiring. Some people were so moved by it that we had people who had already pledged call back to up their pledges. Wonderful stuff. KC Challenge Last year, a local Knight of Columbus pledged $300. He then challenged his fellow Knights to match his pledge of $300. If 10 of them would match his pledge, he offered to double his pledge to $600. Suffice it to say that his challenge was met. Through this man's idea alone, we raised $1,800 from individual Knights of Columbus. And some of the KC councils made additional pledges on top of that. What would we do without the Knights of Columbus? If you are interested in doing any of these things, please call us at 525-7878 or contact us. May God continue to bless you and your family. |