What is Trading Up for Charity?
It started as a challenge - and now I'm passing on the challenge to everyone reading this lens!
Just for fun, I accepted the challenge of taking a paperclip and trading it for an item of greater value - and then trade that item for an item of greater value - and again - and so on.
There's a time limit - one month. Starting on June 14th and the final trade must be done by July 13th, 2007.
I decided to donate the final item(s) or whatever cash value they fetch. I chose East Anglia's Children's Hospices as my charity. You can read more about the charity later.
Now I'm challenging you. Start a trading up project for a charity you'd like to suppoer. Go on - its a lot of fun. You'll have some great conversations. You'll make more people aware of the work the charity does.
And best of all - you'll make them some much-needed money.
Current Trades
Watch the progress of the current trading project
- Trading Up for East Anglia's Children's Hospices
- The current Trading-Up project will benefit East Anglia's Children's Hospice. Read about the trades already made. Get in touch if you want to trade or donate something to trade.
- East Anglia's Children's Hospice
- East Anglia Childrens Hospice - read all about it and you'll understand why they were the chosen charity this time.
How it works
Go on - give it a go...
Here's how it works:
- Find your starting item. Usually something very small but universally use-able. It can be as minor as a paperclip or an egg.
- Ask for a trade. You can do this in one of two ways - either ask for a specific trade if you know the person has something you could trade. If there's no cost to them its much easier.
- Alternatively, ask then to think of something they might want to trade.
- Now ask someone else to trade for the item you've traded for.
- Keep going.
- Its amazing what people are willing to trade.
- This can be done by one person but its probably even more interesting to do it as a group.
- Work out your final exit. If you end up with one or more items of value at the end how are you going to convert them to funds - auction locally, auction online, ask for a few more trades but specify that you want to trade for money donated to the charity.
- Above all - have fun with it.
Other Trading Up Projects
Tell us about yours
If you're up for this challenge, build a lense to tell the world about your trades and then add the lens name and link here.
SemperFidelis wrote...
A 5 to you! Consider stopping by our Recycling lens and giving a rating. We raise funds for Save The Children with this lens. :)
Posted October 13, 2007
