Below are some year-long fundraising ideas that everyone can participate in. They're designed to take minimal effort, but they make a big difference!

Purchase Wine to Benefit TTFF!

La Rochelle has teamed up with TTFF for the production of one of their famous Pinot Noirs!  For each bottle of the 2008 La Rochelle Bradley Vineyards Pinot Noir purchased, La Rochelle Winery will donate a portion of the proceeds to TTFF! You can purchase your bottles in the tasting room or online.  

Buy online today!

Sell on Ebay and Give to TTFF!

You can now donate all or part of the proceeds from an item you sell online on eBay to The Taylor Family Foundation! While listing your item on eBay, select The Taylor Family Foundation as the non-profit which will get proceeds from the sale of your item. Then register with MissionFish, which handles donations to non-profits for eBay, if you haven’t already done so (this is a one-time step). Finally, select a percentage of the final sale to donate to TTFF, from 10% to 100%, and complete the item listing on eBay.

 After the listing ends and the buyer pays you for the item, MissionFish will collect the percentage you donated to TTFF and will provide you with a tax-deductible receipt for your donation.

Become a B-Charitable Partner With Fremont Bank

If you think one person can make a difference, imagine what an entire community can do.

Fremont Bank has launched a B-Charitable Program designed to assist nonprofits like us in our fundraising efforts.

Open a qualifying B-Charitable Checking account and at the end of each year Fremont Bank will donate a percentage of your year-to-date average annual balance as of December 31st to your partnered nonprofit organization. And as a bonus, Fremont Bank will donate a fixed amount per qualified Visa® Check Card transaction on all signature-based and pin-based transactions made using a Fremont Bank B-Charitable Visa® Check Card.

For details, drop by a Fremont Bank location or visit www.fremontbank.com/bcharitable.

Search the Internet Using GoodSearch

Help raise funds for your favorite charitable organization by doing something you do every day - searching the Internet. Search the Web using GoodSearch. It's powered by Yahoo! and works just like any other search engine. Each time you search the web with GoodSearch, about a penny will go your charity or school.

To learn more, visit www.goodsearch.com.

Tickets for Charity

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve teamed up with Tickets-for-Charity to bring our supporters a fantastic opportunity to purchase once-in-a-lifetime ticket packages for Bay Area concerts, like Sting, James Taylor & Carole King and Tim McGraw. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit TTFF’s summer and weekend camp experiences for Northern California children living with life-threatening and chronic illnesses, developmental disabilities and youth at-risk.
 
Check out Tickets for Charity  to see when your favorite artist or band will be in town. Be sure to designate TTFF as your charity. Then enjoy the show, knowing that your purchase will help us send kids to camp at no charge to their families.

A Charitable Way to Shop Online

When you shop online through GoodShop.com up to 30 percent of each purchase you make will be donated to your favorite cause! GoodShop's online mall includes your favorite brands, including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, iTunes, Macy's and Barnes & Noble and more. Best of all, you pay the same amount for your purchases as you would shopping online through each retailer directly.

To get shopping, visit www.goodshop.com.

Running for TTFF

San Ramon resident and Gale Ranch Middle School teacher Katie Murphy laced up her running shoes this summer to help send kids to Camp Arroyo.

Inspired when her physical education and leadership classes at Gale Ranch participated in our Coins for Camper’s campaign (her classes raised enough to send 5 kids to camp) last spring, Katie decided to dedicate her 100-mile Cascade Endurance Race to the kids at Camp Arroyo.

A life-long runner, Katie isn’t satisfied with just running a marathon. She likes to dig-deep and challenge herself. After completing the San Diego 100-mile Endurance Run in 2009, she set her sights higher. Approximately 6,000 feet higher. The Cascade 100-mile Endurance Run through the Cascade Mountains in WA has a total elevation gain of 20,470 feet across the 100 miles. The highest point of the run will have runners reaching an altitude of 5,840 feet.  Katie took 29 hours and 33 seconds to complete the run.

If you'd like to help Katie send kids to camp or you're just curious to see what it takes to train for a 100-mile race, visit her website at www.katiesmiles4smiles.com.

Lemonade for Campers

Emma Garman, one of our youngest supporters, sets up a lemonade stand every year and donates all her proceeds back to TTFF!