Did you brave the lines on Black Friday or watch football while enjoying a leftover turkey sandwich? If you decided to wait and find online deals today, your shopping can help SIFAT. Two great sites – iGive.com and Goodshop.com – let you choose stores that will donate a percentage of your purchase to the nonprofit of your choice! Coupons are often available from retailers to help you save on purchases.
So how does this work? Does it take a lot of extra time? Is it confusing? If you are unsure what we are talking about, let’s walk through an example of something our staff does at SIFAT regularly. When we are ready to purchase office supplies, we visit www.goodshop.com, choose SIFAT as our organization to be helped and pick our retailer. The site then forwards us to the retailer’s site. We then order everything as usual. It only takes a few seconds longer and is simple to follow.
iGive.com requires a free membership, but will track your shopping and online searching to let you know how much you have contributed. Visit www.igive.com to start shopping.

Goodshop.com is free and requires no membership. It will not track what you individually have raised, but you can check to see how the cause (SIFAT) is doing. We receive a yearly check for what is raised between September of this year and October of next year. We recently received our ’08-’09 check for almost $90. The more you shop or search, the more we receive! Visit www.goodshop.com for more information.

For the second year, Alpha Kappa Lambda at Auburn University and the employees of Photographic Services will be taking photos with or without Santa in front of Samford Hall. For a $15 donation, participants will receive two 5×7 prints and have the opportunity to purchase more. Click here for more information.

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 1

Time: 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Donation: $15 (receive two 5×7 portraits)

Pick up Info: Friday, Dec. 4 at Photographic Services, 104 Foy Hall (Old Student Union)

To make an appointment: 334.844.4560

Brookhaven UMC is hosting DecembeRadio this Sunday, Aug. 30th, at 6 p.m. at the Multi-Purpose Arena in Brookhaven, Miss. Proceeds from this concert (tickets are only $10!) will help us finish Mama Yoli’s House. DecembeRadio won the 2009 Dove award for Rock Album of the Year.

We hope you come out to enjoy this Christian concert and support SIFAT in the process. The address for the venue is 1096 Beltline Road, Brookhaven, MS.
Tickets are available at the gate. For more information, call (601) 695-0600.

Click here to download a flier.

Is your group hosting a SIFAT fundraiser? We’d love to help get the word out by posting an announcement here. Contact Marie, lanierm@sifat.org, for more information.