{"id":16599,"date":"2017-03-13T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=16599"},"modified":"2017-03-13T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:16:07","slug":"big-brothers-big-sisters-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=16599","title":{"rendered":"Big Brothers Big Sisters Fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I have been quiet lately. I can&#8217;t believe it has been two weeks since my last blog post. I&#8217;m still very much alive, in case you were wondering. The reason I&#8217;ve been MIA lately is that almost all of my spare time has been consumed with planning and preparing for our upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=16511\" >Dance For Kids&#8217; Sake Zumbathon<\/a>\u00ae for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansasbigs.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Big Brothers Big Sisters<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4kidsake.org\/WestarEnergy\/Ching\"  target=\"_blank\">My individual fundraising<\/a> is off to a pretty solid start. We still have about six more weeks until the end of the fundraising period and I&#8217;ve already surpassed <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=14007\" >my personal fundraising total from last year<\/a>. And, we haven&#8217;t even done our major fundraising events yet. <\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right; padding-left:10px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/32920451345\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"  title=\"poster\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2593\/32920451345_e95952c26e.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"390\" alt=\"poster\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=16511\" >Dance For Kids&#8217; Sake<\/a> is the big one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1319040018182792\/\"  target=\"_blank\">which you can learn about here<\/a>, but we also have a couple other fundraising events coming up. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><BIG>We&#8217;re getting some help from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chick-fil-A<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chipotle.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chipotle<\/a>, two of my favorite places to eat.<\/BIG><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to eat out anyway, at least make it count. Our spirit day at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chick-fil-A<\/a> on Central and Rock Road is March 21, Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>If you eat there anytime from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM and mention that you want to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansasbigs.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Big Brothers Big Sisters<\/a>, 20% of your total bill will be donated to our fundraising campaign. I believe drive-thru works as well. The key is to mention the organization when ordering and paying for your food. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a picture of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chick-fil-A<\/a> flyer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/33384700216\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"  title=\"Chick-fil-A Spirit Night\"><img src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3666\/33384700216_9349257535_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Chick-fil-A Spirit Night\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our fundraising night at the Maple and Ridge <a href=\"http:\/\/chipotle.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chipotle<\/a> is April 3, Monday, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. <a href=\"http:\/\/chipotle.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chipotle<\/a> will donate 50% of the total to our fundraising campaign as long as you bring one of our event flyers, show them a picture of the flyer, or simply mention that you would like your purchase to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansasbigs.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Big Brothers Big Sisters<\/a>. You could even order food online and still support the cause by selecting the &#8220;pay-in-person&#8221; option. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a picture of our <a href=\"http:\/\/chipotle.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Chipotle<\/a> flyer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/32582644624\/in\/datetaken-public\/\"  title=\"Chipotle Flyer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3914\/32582644624_bcb3f1ec30_c.jpg\" width=\"500\" alt=\"Chipotle Flyer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that one restaurant is on the East side, while the other is on the West side. That&#8217;s because Wichitans are notorious for not wanting to drive across town. No matter what side of town you live in, you can still support our fundraising efforts! <strong>Please mark your calendars and eat at one or both places on the designated days. <\/strong>You will never have a more satisfying meal. I promise.<\/p>\n<p>May your hearts be as full as your bellies. Cheers! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I have been quiet lately. I can&#8217;t believe it has been two weeks since my last blog post. I&#8217;m still very much alive, in case you were wondering. The reason I&#8217;ve been MIA lately is that almost all of my spare time has been consumed with planning and preparing for our upcoming Dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385],"tags":[1003,2872,2873,76,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16599"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16612,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599\/revisions\/16612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}