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16th PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO exciting to see what a group who cares enough to click can do!! Two things to note:
1) The company I work for, EK Success Brands, just posted this on their Facebook Page:

Megan Thome, EK Success Brands Media Manager, is passionate about more than just our Brands, in 2007 she and her husband started the Kyrie Foundation, ...to raise research funds to cure pediatric brain cancer. On October 1st, she got word the Kyrie foundation qualified for Pepsi’s October Refresh
Everything $250K competition! To help support Megan and this great cause, we’re asking that you Post to support this charity.

It’s EASY, for every individual post we get between October 15th and October 22nd, we will donate $1 to the Kyrie foundation (up to $1500). If 1,000 people post to our page this week, we’ll donate $1,000.

Please visit http://www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation to find out more about the Kyrie Foundation and to vote for this charity in the Pepsi Challenge. Spread the word, encourage others to post to our page, and help us raise money for this great cause.

AND ... they've posted it to their Spotted Canary Facebook page, too! So what does this mean? Post a comment on either or both of their Facebook pages, and they'll donate $1! Plus, they're encouraging new Pepsi voters, and you can, too!

2) The Easter Bunny/Frosty/Dorothy has initiated

Wednesday, October 20 as

"Go Kyrie, Go Day!"

Ask everyone who has one to wear their Kyrie t-shirt…

either from a Crop, Twilight Walk, Golf Klassic, Hit for the Cure, 50K Grant, etc.

On that day have lots of posters/flyers with you and

HAND THEM OUT!

Give each person several flyers.

Ask them to keep one for themselves and pass on the others.

KEEP IT GOING!!

Would you like to participate with me in

"Go Kyrie, Go Day!" ?!?!

:-)

Susan Jae

You can access and print flyers from our earlier blog posts. SO GREAT TO SEE THIS SUPPORT TO SAVE THESE CHILDREN!!!!!!! Keep voting for us and our Pepsi voting partners here!

Voting Partners!

We've mentioned here over the last couple days the need for "people power" when it comes to the Pepsi Refresh Project voting contest this month. It has been incredible to see the scope of goodness and light that has been spread as a result of this opportunity—an opportunity to save children's lives.

As we near the halfway point, we're looking at 26 spots left to climb. I think that's totally do-able ... with a few more voters! So how? Where?

A friend of mine (Thanks, Janet!) suggested that we reach out to the #1 leader in the $50K category who happens to be local to Kansas City, St. Michael the Archangel school in Leawood. She knew they had voting partners and wondered if they might add The Kyrie Foundation.

I did contact them, and in a lovely and strange turn of events, we are now voting partners with St. Michaels and eight other ideas! A HUGE blessing! So what does this mean?

You know those 10 votes you get each day? Well, you can now share them by voting for the partners in our new voting group. Their voters help us. We help them. And since there are multiple winners for each category, it gives us the opportunity to make the world a better place in all sorts of ways for those kids who survive brain cancer. Pretty awesome, huh?

How can we vote? Don't worry. It's still the same 3 ways each day, but to help our group, now you can include this:

1) Text 103447 to Pepsi (73774) for The Kyrie Foundation
and now you can vote for our partners with separate texts:

103090 - St Michael the Archangel School

103073 - Three Ring Ranch

102961 - The Arizona Center for Responsible Fatherhood (ACRF)

102429 - Tucson Nursery School

103048 - Somtech Recycling

103061 - Outer Limits School

102833 - Jobs for Arizona's Graduates (JAG)

100220 - Parks and Rec Nanty Glo
100879 - Erin's Dream

2) Facebook App voting here: http://apps.facebook.com/pepsirefresh.  Then copy and paste this line: 

erins ring.ranch somtech tns acrf leawood outer kyrie kyrie jobs.jag nanty

You'll be able to see all 10 partners' ideas at once with The Kyrie Foundation at the top.

3) Visit this Pepsi Refresh Everything Site to see all 10 partners in the group at once. The Kyrie Foundation will be at the top. It's just like the www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation.

There's also a comment section in the lower portion of each idea's page. I like leaving comments so that other ideas know that The Kyrie Foundation was there.

So this is a FANTASTIC development for the cause! When we work together, amazing things can happen! Okay, team, let's vote for these kiddos and the families who need us! Go, Kyrie, Go!!!!!!!!

still holding

at 28th PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, team, we need a surge, a jolt, a boost. Last night I learned of a whole team of guys working at a plant who all take out their cell phones to vote before their daily status meetings. AWESOME! Do you have a team that meets everyday?

If your HR manager is resistant to send out a company e-mail, would your supervisor let you send the info to just your work group?

Are you a small business? How 'bout using this as a cause marketing campaign? Send out the info to your client list. It's totally free and makes your business look really good.

Remember, you can give 3 votes per day:
1) Text 103447 to 73774
2) Visit Pepsi Refresh's FB page and click "go to application" to vote.
3) Go to http://www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation

UP TO

28th PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're working on a couple more ideas to increase our daily votes. The more the friends we have to spread the word, the better our chances at WINNING will be!

That said, we've been told that our current rank is staggering given how new & small we are. That's a direct credit to YOU!!! So please accept our thanks and pass it on to your friends and their friends who are making this happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember, you can give 3 votes per day:
1) Text 103447 to 73774
2) Visit Pepsi Refresh's FB page and click "go to application" to vote.
3) Go to http://www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation

and climbing!

to 31st place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep it up everybody! Here is a printable flyer to help get text votes

and here is a printable flyer to help spread the word about all ways to vote.

And check out what's here from EKSuccess Brands, the company that bring us Martha Stewart Crafts!

I can't tell you how excited we are to be moving up in the ranks, like the little charity that could!

Remember, you can give 3 votes per day:
1) Text 103447 to 73774
2) Visit Pepsi Refresh's FB page and click "go to application" to vote.
3) Go to http://www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation

Movin' on up!

To 36th PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is SO amazing to see FREE votes battling cancer!

Another good idea was sent to us: If you are a member of any message boards, would you mind posting the news and encouraging votes? Thanks for the brilliant idea, Willie!

And if you run a small business, would you mind sending out an e-mail with the news to your database? Good for you as "cause marketing" and good for us in the voting contest!

Remember, you can give 3 votes per day:
1) Text 103447 to 73774
2) Visit Pepsi Refresh's FB page and click "go to application" to vote.
3) Go to http://www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation

IT'S WORKING!

So we started in the Pepsi Refresh voting in 332nd place out of 1152 applicants. This was based on where we lined up in the submission order. As of tonight, your votes raised us to

45th PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's just in 4 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I admit that I'm tremendously biased, but looking at the current leaders ahead of us, I have to say that babies battling cancer in their little brains might be a little more crucial, to me, than building an ambulance garage or constructing a teen employment agency or rebuilding a wooden roller coaster. Not to say that there are not a lot of good ideas that need attention and dollars, but if I had to rank them according to need, according to causes that already have tons of people, donors and sponsors, according to long-lasting improvement to the world, curing pediatric brain cancer might just trump it all, specifically because even if a child survives, the likelihood of life-changing brain damage as a result of treatment is all too frequent. I just keep thinking: Kids have to be alive to need a literacy program. Kids have to be alive to need an anti-tobacco initiative. Kids have to be alive to need a community theater.

Know that we've done our absolute best to communicate our intentions. Crossed Ts. Dotted Is. When looking into the top-ranking $250K ideas for successful examples, I discovered in the #2 applicant's profile, there's $20K that unspecified. Yikes!

So, WELL DONE, KYRIE FOUNDATION VOTERS!!!!! LET'S KEEP IT UP AND SPREAD THE WORD EVEN MORE!

Remember, you can give 3 votes per day:
1) Text 103447 to 73774
2) Visit Pepsi Refresh's FB page and click "go to application" to vote.
3) Go to http://www.refresheverything.com/kyriefoundation