IF YOU ARE A BAND OR MUSICIAN AND WANT TO HELP – it’s pretty easy.
If you’re passing through Vancouver or the Okanagan on tour, we can arrange for a comfort doll photo in person – usually we do it the day of the show, at the venue, and before or after the sound check. We have also hooked up at artists during summer festivals. Contact us at comfortdollproject @ gmail.com – if a photo isn’t your thing, we’d love your used guitar or bass strings! (see page bottom below!)
What we need for Step #1:
- contact name and number of tour manager or band member
- access to the Venue – an access pass to get us past security, or for you to come get us at the door (saying we know the band doesn’t work 😉 )
- max 10 minutes of the band’s time for the photo (and hopefully a piece of band swag; used drumstick, guitar pick, setlist, tshirt, signed cd, used guitar strings! etc)
- it helps if the band knows why we are coming, before we show up – this cuts down on the time needed to do the photo/ explain why we are there with a cute knitted doll
If a photo in person isn’t possible, we can also do it through the mail.
- We mail you a doll and index card to sign, with return envelope
- someone on your end takes a pic of you/band holding the doll
- the picture gets emailed back to us
- the index card gets mailed back to us in the envelop provided
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Step #2 Photo auction
We set up the auction on eBay and send you a link once the auction goes ‘live’, and YOU will (hopefully) help publicize the auction to your fans via social media/website etc. Frankly, without the band’s/mgmt’s help we can’t reach enough of your fans to run a successful auction. The difference between support from you or no support, can be as great as $1600 or $60 for the same items!
If you wish, we can coordinate the auction to run along side your CD release, video release or tour etc, to give the band extra publicity at that time.
Once the auction is ended we blog the results – the amount of money raised and what it went towards using World Vision’s Gift Catalog. We hope that you will pass that info on to your fans. We add you to our ‘roster’ both on our website, and our other social sites.
You’d be amazed at how many fans will bid on a band photo (or chewed up drum sticks, or set list, guitar pic, etc), and even $30 can buy 2 bed nets (enough to protect up to 8 children total), $30 can protect up to 6 children from blindness due to lack of Vitamin A, $15 can provide fortified flour to a family for a year! A little goes a long way.
And, it makes you feel good that you’ve done something to help – Your fans feel good because you’ve done something to help – We feel good because one more person has made a huge difference.
Donate Your Used Guitar or Bass Strings
If a comfort doll photo isn’t your thing but you still want to help – we gladly accept used strings! We make bracelets, necklaces, earrings etc from the strings, and sell or auction to your fans. 100% of proceeds goes to charity.
If you’re passing through town, we can pick them up, or we can accept them through the mail. And the items bring in much more money if you cross promote them on your own social sites. For example, Papa Roach guitarist Jerry Horton reposted our post just once, and we had 200 orders in mere days.
Thanks for the ongoing support to all who have participated so far, and to those who are about to – cant wait!
