Fundraising

We have been considering our options for paying for everything, including the tax credit mentioned before, employer help (that's a no go), and possibly having a Garage Sale/Adoption fundraiser.  These are some techniques that other couples have used.  I have also seen people sell different things such as shirts, bracelets, crafts they've made, etc.  I don't know if that is 'us' though.

I just got introduced to a website called http://www.indiegogo.com/.  And I love it!  This site allows people to use the World Wide Web to reach out to people who may be interested in their cause.  The causes are widely varied: nonprofits, startup businesses, people looking for funding to make movies, other couples looking to adopt, and on and on.  One post that caught my eye was a nice elderly lady who was a bus monitor in Greece, NY.  She was being bullied by the very students that she was there to watch over, and one of the students videotaped the bullying.  Someone felt awful this happened to her, so they created a page to raise money to send her on a nice vacation (as her job did not pay enough for such splurges).  In less than 10 hours, the goal of $5000 was bypassed, and it is already over $100,000. What!!

We are not hoping for anything that extravagent.  And I am not posting it here so that anyone feels like that have to donate.  Just another documentation of what we are trying with the adoption process!  But here is the link to our page:

http://www.indiegogo.com/babykadoption?a=724475

We'll just put it out in the internet-universe, and see what happens!  Let's go viral!

EDITED TO ADD:  Just read that our fundraising page can be bumped to the site's main page by having lots of comments.  And more views equals more potential donors. So please consider leaving a comment of support!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!