Ruth Connell’s Birthday Fundraiser for ‘My Hope Chest’ 2020

Fundraising campaign by Tori F

by Tori F

Edmonton, ca

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As we all know, Ruth Connell is so passionate about supporting important causes, and exhibits immense generosity when it comes to helping those in need. To celebrate our first year with her and all of her wonderful fans, we wanted to organize something to help do some good and we couldn't think of a better way to honour a woman so selfless and honest than by supporting her favourite charity, My Hope Chest.

In many years past, fans from around the world have raised thousands of dollars and supporters for My Hope Chest. We hope to continue that tradition and therefore I'm incredibly confident that once again Ruthie's fans and supporters from around the world can come together and raise $500 for My Hope Chest. In their words, the purpose of My Hope Chest is to help restore self-esteem, dignity and confidence to breast cancer survivors by facilitating and funding, as needed, reconstructive surgery for those who do not have adequate financial means to afford such surgery and to educate survivors on their breast reconstruction options. (https://www.myhopechest.org/about-us) #BecauseBoobs

100% of the funds raised will be sent directly to MHC when the fundraiser closes. While the general intention is to raise money to celebrate Ruth's birthday on April 20th, the fundraiser will remain open until the end of May with the hope that we can reach, or even exceed the goal. If there is still interest after that point, we will do our utmost best to continue, providing the platform will allow us to.

We really hope that you will be able to donate, and join us in celebrating Ruth's birthday. Any amount, big or small, makes a difference. Not only do we hope to raise this money and play our part in helping those who need it, we would love to show Ruthie that the love she puts out into the world by using her many platforms for good is inspiring us all to do, and be better.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out to us on Twitter. Even if you can't donate, a share or RT is hugely appreciated and if you haven't already, please also follow MyHopeChest on Twitter and Instagram at @MyHopeChest. Every follower helps spread awareness of the charity and will provide them with the chance for more sponsors and more chances to do some good.

Thank you! - Tori & Luma

@RuthConnellOrg & @LumaPagno

Campaign Completion!

Update posted by Tori F On May 01, 2020

We did it! Another amazing year of caring and sharing and I can't begin to thank all of you enough for the time and effort put into this year's birthday fundraiser. We were able to donate another 400$ USD to My Hope Chest, which brings the grand total raised between both years to 950$ USD! I'm so, so honoured to be able to be part of this with all of you and to be able to give back to such an amazing cause that is so close to home. Thank you all again. Here's to another great turnout next year!

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Milestone #2 & #3!

Update posted by Tori F On Mar 10, 2020

We've done it! Hit the half mark and soared into the next goal of 300$ for this amazing cause. Thank you so much to everyone who has continued to share and donate. Caitlin and Chrystal, biggest thanks to you both for your love and support. We're also gaining traction for offline donations and nearing the 100$ mark for that. I'm so excited to continue raising money and see how far we get, we've still got 51 days to go so let's knock it out of the park!

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Milestone #1 Achieved!

Update posted by Tori F On Jan 26, 2020

First off, I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has taken the time to comment or RT or message to ask how they could help with this project, the amount of support is overwhelming and so positive and lovely and I can't get over how wonderful this fandom has been the last three days. The Mega Coven has been a huge boost in getting this off the ground so I can't thank the group enough.

With our most recent donation from Meggan, we've sailed by the 100$ mark already with more than 90 days still to go on things. I'll do an update after each milestone so people can keep up with how we're doing. With the last ten episodes of Supernatural still to go, I hope we can continue to do mountains of good in the coming months and maybe even beat last year's 550$ total.

Much love, T

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