Looking for UMASS or BGSU Charitable Ticket Donations

Submitted by The Shredder on

I work for St.Johns home in Grand Rapids. It's a home for abused and negleted kids. We have all ages on campus and I work in the 15-18 boys home. Many of our boys will either move on with a foster family or will have to wait it until they are 18 in which they will go into independent living. 

I did this for a basketball game last year and had 4-5 great people donate tickets so I could take the boys to a M basketball game which they loved. At that time we had a good 5-6 boys who were pretty die hard UM fans but many have moved on. We now have two diehards left who have been asking me to bring them to their first game and I tried to get some funds from SJH but funds are limited and couldn't be promised anything. 

So I am reaching out to the Mgoblog community. If anyone has 3-4 extra tickets for UMASS or BGSU or any other game and is willing to donate please email me at [email protected]

The two boys would be super surprised and excited. Umass is coming pretty quick so I am pretty sure I could get SJH to flip the bill on over night mail since they appreciate donations so much for their kids. 

Someone last year donated 8 tickets to the WMU game which went awesome and kids came away so impressed they all said they wanted to attend UM. All those kids have now moved on and I hope they one day find their way to college after experiencing such a awesome day on the UM campus.

If anyone is interested in donating than please contact me. Thanks for reading!

Dagger

September 14th, 2010 at 9:25 AM ^

I'd gladly give up my student ticket and could get it validated for you.

And, I imagine that I may be going to GR this weekend and could deliver mine and any others it to you on Friday if you'd like as opposed to going through the mail.

The Shredder

September 14th, 2010 at 10:53 AM ^

Thanks for all the great people who have been willing to donate their tickets this week. I'm still trying to get at least three together since supervision is a pretty big deal SJH wouldnt be to thrilled if the kids ended up sitting by them selfs if event staff was picky about us sitting next to each other with different seats. Idea just hit me and if I can get another staff to go I could take two sets of tickets. I could sit with one kid and the other staff could seat with the other. Thanks for all the offers so far people! I'm just trying to figure our best option. Its good to see people are so willing to give up good seats to our kids. 

The Shredder

September 17th, 2010 at 1:03 PM ^

Yesterday on MgoBlog I reached out to the Mgoboard for any donations of tickets to a Michigan football game. I had one great email after another of people offering their tickets to UMASS and BGSU. I was flattered and impressed with how much people were willing to give to the boys of St.Johns home. I am happy to say that one person had four tickets to the BGSU game that he was willing to donate. This will really work out well since the tickets will give us more time to plan our trip to AA. 



I haven't told our boys yet but they will be sooooo excited. The two UM fans will flying around the house I am sure(they do after TDs anyway) once they find out. I even get to take another boy who is more of an NFL fan but was raving about Denard last week. Three kids were given a day they won't forget by great giving people. I wanna thank everyone who contacted me in by e-mail or by Mgoboard. You guys are outstanding people and the St.Johns Home Boys and I thank you so much. This should be such a great time. I know these people don't ask to be listed but I will just list the people by first name who were willing to give so much to us.



Greg,Ameed,Ron,Matt,Matt,Shawn,Douglas,Kevin,Ben,phjhu89,Adrian,Dagger,Maximinus Thrax,

jlcoleman71



I hope I didn't miss anyone. All these people deserve a lot of thanks for giving to others and our home. One Donation didn't come in a form of tickets but in T-shirts. This donor called M-den and had student shirts sent to us so we can wear them for next weekends game. Once again a 10000000 Thanks for giving to our boys. I know the tickets and shirts will be like Christmas to them in Sept.