Yes asking for support for my charity again

The holidays are upon us and that means tis the season to give.  I use to think that meant buying lots of presents to give out at holiday parties, put under the tree and yes I was lucky enough to celebrate Hunakah too. But since my cancer diagnosis the holidays have meant something different to me....Tis the Season To Be CHARITABLE.

I have met HUNDREDS of men, women and children all fighting the same battle I did not long ago. These amazing people have become my friends and family. This is why I started Spirit Jump, to help them through their battles.  Each day a new cancer fighter joins our charity and we do all we can to help lift their spirits too.  Of course this all takes $$$$.

This holiday Spirit Jump has decided to send out a special care package to each of the over 200 cancer fighters who have been a part of Spirit Jump through 2009.  For every $40 donated we send out a carepackage that day.  It is our hope to send out a care package to EVERY cancer fighter in our organization.  This would be possible if we won a contest that is running for today only by Paypal.

Paypal is giving 1k to the charity that raises the most donatins today. First place right now has only raised $110 and we are in 4th place with $40.  This would be an amazing day to double your money. Donate any amount large or small and you get us closer to winning 1k. If we won that 1k we could send out all the gift packages tomorrow!

A final incentive:  The Miami City Ballet has generously donated 4 front row tickets to their holiday performance (2 tickets to 2 shows) valued at over 1k.  If anyone out there is fortunate enough to be able to donate 1k we will give you all four tickets. You can use these tickets yourself, give them as a gift or ask us to donate them in your name to two families in South Florida who have been battling cancer.  We are also able to break these tickets up for $600 per pair.  If you have any questions please call me 561-292-3853 first come first serve and we hope they are gone by midnight tonight :)

To donate simply click the link below. To count towards the contest the donation must be made through the link below. Any amount large or small would be so appreciated. You can donate throughout the holiday but the contest for 1k is for today only and runs through 11:59PM PT.

DONATE NOW

Happy To Be Alive

Recently I have been thinking a lot about my cancer survival. Its been a long, difficult two years full of treatments, surgeries, PET scans....well you know the story.  There were many days when I asked why did I survive while others dont. I even found myself wishing I could exchange my survival for those, children, parents and spouses who lost their battles.  However, recently I have been feeling so very grateful.

My amazing two year old niece has helped me through my cancer battle without even having knowledge of her aunties cancer diagnosis.  She makes me laugh, smile and remember my own childhood.  She loves me unconditionally and to her I am an invinsible super hero.  Every time she laughs, smiles, hugs me....I thank God that I beat that monster they call cancer.  Each moment I have with her in my life is a gift that I cherish.

I may not write every day about what happened to me but it is still such a large part of my life. Even being close to three years from diagnosis it feels just like yesterday when the doctors told me my chances of surviving were slim.  Often I wonder what my nieces life would be like without her auntie and thats when I know I was meant to live so that I could bring love and happiness into the lives of others.  So that I could be the best auntie, sister, girfriend, daughter and friend!

My Nonprofit Organization Is Trying To Win $20,000

Hi friends I hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving!  I have been doing GREAT and feeling GREAT as well.  Spirit Jump (my nonprofit organization) has been growing and its been such an amazing experience. Its hard to believe that something as horrible as cancer has brought about something so wonderful. I have met so many wonderful people who are battling and who are helping those through their battle.

With our growth we are in desperate need for donations so that we can expand.  Spirit Jump has been invited to participate in an amazing holiday fundraiser event called Regift The Fruitcake. There are 24 charities involved and the charity who raises the most donatins will get $20,000.00 from Paypal. Second place will get $10,000.00 and third $5,000.00  At first we thought it impossible to win but for the last two weeks Spirit Jump has been in 1st place.  The contest runs through December so there is a long way to go but I know with the help of friends, family and followers Spirit Jump can prevail.

If anyone could donate even $5 to our virtual Fruitcake that is one step closer to our goal. Spirit Jump will be sending gift packages to those battling cancer for every $40.00 donated. There are several ways you can help us meet our goal in addition to donations. DONATE HERE

1- If you have a business this could be a great promotion opportunity. Your company can do dollar for dollar matches (can put limits on this i.e. up to $500.00). Companies can also offer prizes and incentives. Live Life Solid has been sending 2 Free T-shirts from their Solid line for every $25.00 donated and Start Poken will be giving away a Free Poken this Tuesday. 

• If you would like to get 2FREE Solid T-shirts valued at over $40.00 for a $25.00 donation click HERE and donate to Live Life Solid's virtual Fruitcake, they have already raised over $500.00 -

2- You can start your own virtual Fruitcake in the name of Spirit Jump and then ask friends, family and followers to donate to it. Paypal is also awarding prizes to individuals who start virtual Fruitcakes. Each week the top Fruitcake will win a laptop and at the end the virtual Fruitcake with the most donations gets $5,000.00 - I have the top Fruitcake right now with only $1,300.00. There is a great chance of winning with very little competition right now. $5,000 would be great after the holidays! Click HERE to start your virtual Fruitcake.

If anyone has questions or wants my help doing any of the above just send me an email to Spirit Jump spiritjumper@spiritjump.com and we will help.

A HUGE thank you to all who have donated, started their own virtual Fruitcakes and provided incentives to donate.  My hope is to send at least 200 gift packages to those battling cancer.

Watch Meaghan On CBS-4 Talking About Spirit Jump

Just last week I was interviewed on South Florida's CBS Channel 4 and it was a blast. The interview was about my NPO Spirit Jump. The camera's came with us to CJ's home and recorded while we gave 10 year old cancer fighter CJ a Spirit Jump.  Please click the link below to watch this short clip and let me know what you think. AND....if you are moved to join Spirit Jump and help me help the many still fighting their battle with cancer.

WATCH CBS INTERVIEW

VISIT SPIRIT JUMP TO JOIN

DigiJeff Jumps Out Of A Plane To Support #beatcancer

As a lot of you know I am the founder of Spirit Jump, a non profit organization with the mission to support those battling cancer.  Spirit Jump was honored to be 1 of 4 charities involved in the #beatcancer mission to get the most shared messages on the internet.  This attempt was successful and got in the Guinness Book Of World Records!!  And ontop of that over $70,000.00 was raised to be shared between the 4 charities involved.

While this was only a 24 hour attempt the message continued on long after those 24 hours lapsed.  In fact someone even jumped out of an airplane to support #beatcancer.  DigiJeff, who works with Chamillionaire a multi platnium artist, had never jumped out of a plane before nor did he ever want to. But, he saw an opportunity to make a difference and took it.

Please take a moment to watch this video about DigiJeff's #beatcancer jump!

Vegas!

As many of you know Spirit Jump had the honor and privilege to attend both Blogworld and Sitscation in Las Vegas.  It was an amazing experience and we met so many wonderful people, organizations and business.

Our founder, Meaghan Edelstein, was invited by Blogworld to be a speaker on the Kick Cancer's Ass Panel along with Jay Scott of Alex's Lemonade Stand, Drew Olanoff from Blame Drew's Cancer and Natalie Lent of Stand Up To Cancer. It was an amazing opportunity for Meaghan to meet some very influential, inspiring and brilliant people who fighting to bring cancer awareness to the forefront of peoples minds and hearts.

 

As many of you know Spirit Jump was also invited to Blogworld as 1 of 10 winners of the Name Your Cause contest held on Twitter.  This gave us an opportunity to have a booth at the Expo on Friday 10-1:30 where we gave out "swag" bags and encourage everyone around to sign up and become a Spirit Jumper.  All the items in our "swag" bags were donated by Spirit Jumpers like Live Life Solid, Do Life Now, Pinwheel Girls, Destiny, Amy B.- THANK YOU!

Spirit Jump was also involved in a charity contest called Charity Smackdown  with the other winners of Name Your Cause.  We were the heavy underdogs and won by only $30. We could not have done this without all our amazing supporters who made this win possible! As the winners of Charity Smackdown Paypal will donate $2,000.00 to Spirit Jump!

Spirit Jump knew right away that we had to donate some of our winnings back to the other charities.  Each one of these charities raises money for important causes and were represented by amazing people who we fell in love with.  So, when Spirit Jump receives its $2,000 prize from PayPal we will be donating some of that to the following charities:

Heifer Portland
3For5
Canine Companions for Independence 
Best Friend Animal Society
Alex's Lemonade Stand
Stepwise Foundation
Surfrider Foundation
LA's Best
Mothers Fighting For Others

Here are some photos of the Spirit Jump team with some of the above charities:

(Jay & Melissa of Alex's Lemonade Stand)

(Meaghan with Noland & Bryan of Heifer Portland)

 (Rocky of Mothers Fighting For Others)

(Kerri with 3For5)

(Sally of Stepwise)

 (Bryan with two representatives of LA's Best)

 Spirit Jump was also very honored to be invited to SITSCATION and man did we have a blast with these ladies!

The amazing ladies at SITS threw a fabulous fundraiser party for us last Friday at the Venetian and it was so much fun!  I (Meaghan) met many of the women I have been looking up to for the past year and a half I have been blogging, I danced my butt off AND SITS raised over $900.00 for us that night!!!! This was just more than we could have ever imagined and for that we will be eternally grateful!

To top it all off SITS also hosted an online auction that very day and will be hosting a second one this Friday. We have been in such desperate need for funding and these ladies really pulled through for us....THANK YOU!

Spirit Jump was part of a Historical moment

Some of you may have seen the #beatcancer over the past few days.  This was an attempt by an organization called Everywhere to set a Guinness World Record for distribution of the largest mass message through social media. Four charities were chosen to be a part of this record setting attempt and Spirit Jump was one of the four which also included Stand Up To Cancer, Alex's Lemonade Stand and Bright Pink.  Along with setting a record over $70,000 was raised to be shared between the four charities involved.

We at Spirit Jump would like to extend a huge thank you to MillerCoors, Ebay/PayPal and Everywhere for making this possible and for including us in this important record setting message #beatcancer.

Im Speaking At Blogworld!

Spirit Jump is extremely excited about our upcoming trip to Las Vegas where we will attend Blog World and SITSCATION .

Thursday 10/15, SJ founder Meaghan Edelstein will be a panelist on the Kick Cancer’s Ass panel at the Blog World conference along with other fellow cancer ass kickers like Drew Olanoff of Blame Drew’s Cancer, Stand Up To Cancer & Alex's Lemonade Stand

Friday night, SITS will be throwing a fantastic party for Spirit Jump with a raffle and online auction. SITS is generously donating 100% of the proceeds generated from the raffle and online auction to Spirit Jump! You can participate in the online auction by clicking here starting this Friday morning.

                                                                               

HELP THE UNDERDOG WIN CHARITY SMACKDOWN

Spirit Jump is about to get seriously SMACKED DOWN. Here's why. As many of you know Spirit Jump is a small grassroots organization that operates with virtually NO budget. We will be going up against some VERY LARGE, well organized organizations with MUCH LARGER budgets in what's called the Charity Smackdown. So it looks like we are about to get SMACKED DOWN BIG TIME...UNLESS... YOU HELP THE UNDERDOG WIN!    

This is how the CHARITY SMACKDOWN works.

Spirit Jump will be competing against 8 other charities who all won spots to Blogworld through the Name Your Cause contest (you can see the other causes by clicking the link).

The contest begins on Thursday October 15 @ 1pm EST and runs through Saturday October 17 @ 12pm EST.  Whichever charity receives the most donations through Paypal wins! The first prize winner receives $2,000 from Paypal, second place $1,000 and third $500. 

HOW YOU CAN HELP SPIRIT JUMP WIN 

Make a donation to Spirit Jump on any one of the following sites through Paypal. Any amount will help $1,$5, $10, $20 whatever. Also if you know any BIG HITTERS who would like to donate to a great cause this would be the time to call them.  (You do not need to have a Paypal account to do this you can use a credit card):

Charitysmackdown.com -Be sure to click the Spirit Jump widget

facebook.com/charitysmackdown- Be sure to click the Spirit Jump widget

Spiritjump.org - Be sure to click the Spirit Jump Smackdown widget

facebook.com/spiritjump - Be sure to click the Spirit Jump Smackdown widget

Only donations made through the PayPal widgets via the sites listed above count towards the contest!

The charity with the most donations WINS! You can see a who is winning by visiting the Charity Smackdown website.

 Whether you are able to donate or not here is how you can also help us win:

We are HUGE underdogs and the only way we stand a chance at winning is with your help!

1) If you use Twitter follow @BWsmackdown to watch the smack talk and keep track of who is winning.  When Tweeting use the hashtag #BWsmackdown.

2) Post and alert all of your friends on Facebook

3) If you Blog then Blog about it

4) Call your friends, email your contacts, knock on your neighbors doors whatever you can think of to help get the word out


Thanks so much for your support! Now let's not let those BIG BULLY'S PUSH LIL OL' SPIRIT JUMP AROUND! NOW GO GET EM!