Charity! It makes the fandom go around. Now that Micheal is back on the fast track to recovery, we have an opportunity to give in other ways! Head on down below the break to check out what's going on with both Bronies for Good and BABSCon!
BABSCon, in collaboration with Bronies for Good, would like to announce the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and San Francisco Suicide Prevention as our 2014 charity beneficiaries!
The San Francisco SPCA is a community-supported, non-profit animal welfare
organization dedicated to saving, protecting, and providing immediate care for cats
and dogs who are homeless, ill, or in need of an advocate. The SPCA also works
long-term to educate the community and reduce the number of unwanted kittens and
puppies through spaying and neutering.
San Francisco Suicide Prevention is the oldest community-based telephone crisis center in the United States. Founded in 1962 by a journalist from the British Broadcasting Corporation, the organization adopted a crisis management model developed by the Samaritans Centers in Great Britain and Europe. To this day the agency trains local volunteers who provide suicide prevention and crisis intervention services to callers. Over 500 other crisis centers across the United States now utilize the same concept.
Our charity auction will be split between both organizations evenly. If you would like to contribute an item to our charity auction, please send an email to charity@babscon.com with the heading [BABS Charity Auction] and the following information. You can also feel free to stop by the Bronies for Good fan table to drop off items for the charity auction.
We are also collaborating with Peninsula Humane, a Burlingame based partner of the SPCA, to host an on-site mobile adoption center on Friday from 1:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m. If you’ve ever wanted to find a pet to call your own, be it a puppy, hamster, rabbit, or otherwise, then be sure to keep an eye out for them!
Be sure to check out these amazing organizations and to participate in the plethora of charitable programming we have in store for you this coming April!
The Bay Area Brony Spectacular (BABSCon) is the first convention devoted to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in the San Francisco Bay Area, and will be held on April 18-20, 2014 at the SFO Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, CA. Contact pr@babscon.com for more information!
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Convention and Orphanage Volunteering Opportunities
Charity in the Bay with BABSCon
That’s right folks! We’ll be working with the intrepid folks from Bay Area Brony Spectacular on a fantastic selection of charitable programming this April! This includes a charity auction benefiting the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and SF Suicide, the hosting of a mobile adoption center with Peninsula Humane, and more! You can also visit us at our fan table, where you’ll be able to donate to the ongoing Seeds of Kindness 3 initiative and our newest charitable beneficiary, Community Grows!Community Grows is San Francisco based nonprofit dedicated to the cultivation of healthy youth through the growing of gardens in low-income, diverse communities. These gardens and parks are situated in SF’s urban center, where staff work with at-risk youth to provide food, environmental education, and skills training free of charge to kids aged five to nineteen.
You have plenty of options to support these amazing organizations and their worthwhile efforts. You can stop by our table to place a donation, adopt a pet at the Mobile Adoption Center on Friday 1–4 p.m., participate in the charity auction, and more! Or, if you’re short on funds, you can support us directly by volunteering with us during BABSCon! In return for your time, you’ll receive a discounted price on your admission, acquire some sweet BfG swag, and enjoy an enriching experience working with our staff.
Be sure to check out our volunteer page to apply!
If you have yet to check ’em out, head on over to www.babscon.com to preregister while you still can! Till then, stay fluffy, everyone!
Volunteering with Another Hope
Throughout 2012 and 2013, Seeds of Kindness funded an orphanage building and a support project for the NGO Another Hope. Since then, the children have moved into their new home and the support project, a guest house, is about to be finished as well.What Another Hope is looking for now are more volunteers who would like to help at the site of the orphanage in one of the following ways.
They are looking for people with experience in providing basic childcare, for example, making sure that the children bathe, brush their teeth, and wear clean clothes. They could also use support in the area of sports and other recreation for the children.
Furthermore, they need support for construction work, for example, for a the perimeter wall, permanent offices, and the vocational school that they are planning to start.
They also need volunteers who can provide training, assessments, and assistance in the area of basic health care, be it only simple tasks as putting bandages on scraped knees or giving classes on avoiding dehydration. Qualified physicians are particularly needed for community health outreach programs.
In addition, monetary donations directly to Another Hope and experience in fundraising are of course also always welcome.
More details as well as contact data can be found in their freshly updated volunteer manual and on their website. If you are interested in volunteering for the orphanage, please get in touch with Another Hope directly.
