What successes has Project DaD had?
Project DaD measures success in terms of number of days donated. The following case studies provide a flavour of how some of the people in the DaD network have donated their days ...
- Mashambanzou is an aids orphanage
in Africa that has benefited from a family spending 15 days fundraising and building up a
pen pal / mentoring scheme.
Visit Mashambanzou Website - The York Blind and Partially Sighted
Society (YBPSS) in North Yorkshire has benefited from a
group of consultants giving 20 days of their time to work pro bono with the
Chief Executive and Board on developing a strategy for the charity.
Visit YBPSS website - A team of four cyclists donated a day each to complete l'Etape du Tour - a leg of
the Tour de France. This involved covering 150 miles with 8,500 other nutters
and they raised a significant amount for Wooden Spoon
- benefiting local children in Sussex.
Visit Wooden Spoon Website - A graduate has committed to donate a day's salary for the next
five years to support an Ecuadorian child
through secondary school. This
relationship-building sponsorship scheme involves regular, direct
correspondence with the children for updates on, and to encourage, their
progress at school.
Visit Ayuda Directa Website - A specialist cancer charity in Guildford, the
Fountain Centre, has
received free of charge expert support in strategic planning, as they
attempt to continue their success in a changing governance
environment - 24 days of consultancy time.
Visit Fountain Centre Website - A group of children from a school in East Sussex have adopted the Watoto
childcare ministries in Uganda and have so far spent an equivalent of
nine days raising money for them
through initiatives like a tuck-shop in school. The Watoto choir
will be visiting them in 2005 to build up the personal relationships
between the children to help in the development of both groups.
Visit Watoto Website
As you can see, a wide range of people are already giving in different ways to a variety of child-related charities through the Donate-a-Day scheme.
How could you Donate a Day to benefit a cause you support and add to DaD's success?
