Help Us Get This Good Person Home To Seattle

Fundraising campaign by Barbara Sher
  • US$3,793.50
    raised of $3,500.00 goal goal
108% Funded
63 Donors
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Moving back home to the beautiful Northwest 

This is a campaign to help our friend return to the Northwest U.S. where she was born and raised. She's been living in the Southwest for ten years but dreams of the forests and ocean back home. We hope you'll help us make her dream come true. 

 

On the Road! 

Gremlins moved our updates to the bottom of the sidebar, so I’m posting the latest exciting news here too. 

 

Mary Ann has started her big journey. I got this message from her today. 

 

Dear Friends!! 

 

I'm on the road!!! I've made it as far as Gallup, New Mexico, 16 miles from the Arizona border! 

 

Tomorrow, I'll try to get through Arizona (It's about 300 miles across) and drive this rig into California. Then I intend to go right at Bakersfield, and then head up I-5.   

 

I'm coming home.   I really am! 

 

Only four more campaign days left, and our hero has run up new expenses, so please help if you can. Those beautiful kilims and my audiobooks and ebooks will reward your good heart and generosity. 

 

Barbara Sher 

 

Why we want to help

Our friend is a remarkable woman who has fallen into a tough situation and needs some financial help to get out of it. She's worked hard all her life, and helped other people all the way. Now she finds herself broke, disabled and unemployed. At 60-plus years of age, she wants to go home. She has a reasonable chance of finding work she's qualified to do in the Northwest, and she has friends there. It's understandable that she grows more and more homesick for the cool green forests and mountains where she was born and raised. 

 

Her generosity

At times in the past when Mary Ann had money, she was exceedingly generous with it, and gave away thousands of dollars to help people with medical bills and legal fees. Those friends are in no position to return the favor. Some have died. Now that she longs to go home, it seems like our turn to pay it forward for her. 

 

She was invited by friends to come to the Southwest for a project that didn't materialize. There she settled into a tiny low-rent house in a rural community and struggled to find a new direction. She was sixty when she felt a calling to help people with mental health problems and went back to school. She graduated with a master's degree in Clinical Social Work a few years later. 

 

Searching for work

Since then Mary Ann has been searching for work as a clinical social worker, without success. The local agencies have had budget cuts, and the few jobs available require Spanish speaking skills. Disability and pain from a serious back injury prevent her returning to her previous jobs, so she has been living on a very meager income for some years.

 

But in Washington State no Spanish is required and her degree gives her many more options for finding work. 

 

How she'll make the move

Mary Ann wants to fly up to the Seattle area and try to find a modest place to live and, hopefully, good work. Then she'll return briefly and load up a U-Haul truck and drive back home, at last.  

Newsflash!

Mary Ann is now in the Seattle area on her exploratory trip. See the updates tab for details. 

Rewards

She's not in a position to give you rewards for your donations, but I am, and I want to. Take a look at the very special rewards that are available to you and see if there's something you'd love to own or give as a gift. Your donation will be rewarded with beautiful or valuable items at a great discount - and a warm-hearted thank you from all of her friends. 

$5 donation

 A personal thank you email with a digital photo of the stunning scenery around Seattle  

$12.50 donation 

 Barbara Sher's Idea book - downloadable e-version
Barbara Sher's Idea Book  

$25 donation

  One of these audio books - downloadable mp3 version
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was                  It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now  

 

$65 or $100 donation

One of these hand woven Turkish kilim rugs. 

Newsflash! There are now more kilims available for donors. As they are hand made the sizes are variable, but I am personally selecting larger ones for the higher donation category. They will be similar to the examples you can see by clicking the photo.

example of a kilim

 

$500 donation

A very rare opportunity for a one-on-one coaching session with me by telephone. 

 

 

For descriptions of these rewards look in the sidebar on the right, or click on the photos to find more detailed information. 

 

Warm regards, 

 

Barbara Sher

 

Rewards

and you'll get a personal thank you email, with a digital photograph of the stunning scenery near Seattle

5 Backers

and be rewarded with the downloadable e-version of Barbara Shers Idea Book. It%92%92s full of ideas about how to do what you love and still pay your bills. " http://geniuspress.com/details/ideabook.htm

18 Backers

and get an audio book by Barbara Sher. Choose either I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was%93%94 or It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now%93%94. Hours of wisdom from the "godmother of life coaching" in downloadable mp3 format. http://geniuspress.com/audios.htm

12 Backers

and get a Turkish kilim rug chosen for you by Barbara Sher from her private collection. They are made from handspun, vegetable-dyed wool and woven with love by local weavers. This tradition has been handed down from one woman to another for thousands of years. The colors are radiant and the symbols are profound and beautiful. See some examples at this link http://is.gd/bsher_kilims_large

7 Backers

and get a larger Turkish kilim rug, chosen for you by Barbara Sher from her private collection. They are made from handspun, vegetable-dyed wool and woven with love by local weavers. This tradition has been handed down from one woman to another for thousands of years. The colors are radiant and the symbols are profound and beautiful. See some examples at this link http://is.gd/bsher_kilims_large

3 Backers
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and get an hour of one-on-one coaching by phone with me and up to four email followups over the course of a month. I hardly ever take on any individual clients any more, and I can only take three. Your entire donation will go to Mary Ann's dream, and we will work on yours (even if you are not sure what yours might be). http://barbarasher.com/about.htm

3 Backers

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  • Countrygirl79
  • Posted On Mar 03, 2014
  • https://gogetfunding.com/project/moving-back-to-virginia}

$25.00
  • Marty Wilson
  • Posted On Feb 25, 2014
  • We did it! A life changed... oh, actually many lives changed. Home is such an important concept. So glad you'll make it home.

Feb 22

On the Road!

Update posted by Barbara Sher at 08:47 pm

I got this message from Mary Ann today   Dear Friends!!   I'm on the road!!! I've made it as far as Gallup, New Mexico, 16 miles from the Arizona border!   Tomorrow, I'll try to get through Arizona (It's about 300 miles across) and drive this rig into California. Then I

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Feb 17

** Target Reached **

Update posted by Barbara Sher at 05:47 pm

We're very happy to have gone over our campaign target with nine days still to go :-) but I hope we can help Mary Ann a little bit more. I want to be sure she has enough for the U-Haul rental and gas, money for the apartment when she gets there,. . . . .

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Feb 17

Success in Seattle

Update posted by Barbara Sher at 05:41 pm

Great news about Mary Ann's trip to Seattle! She got a job (which is waiting for her right now), and an apartment (yes, she found one, cheap and perfect) and then she went back to the southwest to prepare for the big move. She's emptying her small cottage of ten. . . . .

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Jan 14

Flying to Washington

Update posted by Barbara Sher at 05:02 pm

I'm delighted to tell you that things are now looking very promising for Mary Ann. Thanks to people's generosity here, funds for her move back home to Washington are coming in steadily, and we hope to pass the half-way mark very soon.    But money isn't the only way people. . . . .

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63 donors
  • Countrygirl79
  • Posted On Mar 03, 2014
  • https://gogetfunding.com/project/moving-back-to-virginia}

$25.00
  • Marty Wilson
  • Posted On Feb 25, 2014
  • We did it! A life changed... oh, actually many lives changed. Home is such an important concept. So glad you'll make it home.

  • Terri
  • Donated on Feb 22, 2014
  • Good luck Mary Ann! This is your time and you've got a lot of good people supporting you all the way!

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  • Lois Mazza
  • Donated on Feb 18, 2014
  • Beat of luck to Mary Ann. Dream on! It is a wonderful thing to be able to help. The real gift is to the giver.

$100.00
  • Guest
  • Donated on Feb 18, 2014
  • Wishing you the best, Mary Ann!

$25.00
  • Guest
  • Donated on Feb 17, 2014
  • Go get 'em!

$100.00
$5.00
  • Guest
  • Donated on Feb 17, 2014
$25.00
  • Guest
  • Donated on Feb 17, 2014
  • Testing Paypal, but will send more money if this test case goes through.

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US$3,793.50
raised of $3,500.00 goal
108% Funded
63 Donors