While most companies will tell you that they’ve been focusing more and more of their ad dollars online the truth is that the economic downturn has crunched those dollars and made banner advertising a hard sell for us in the past few months as we began dipping our toes into pursuing it as an avenue to support our operation. We’ll be upgrading our media kit and doing our best to fill the available space that we’ve got to sell in 2010 but in the meantime we could really use your help to get through.

And if you don’t donate, then nobody in our community will. So please consider helping us out.

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

Your kind donation will be put towards our operating costs including our office rent, executive/administrative costs, site design/maintenance and hosting, accounting, promotions, events as well as the multitude of other expenses that come along with operating a federally incorporated non-profit that relies on the community that it supports to finance it. In the future our goal is to release an annual printed book as well as opening a community-minded retail space/gallery but in the short term our goal is simply to keep our web presence afloat and put on some more events in 2010, and we really do need your help to do that.

WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF IT?

Not only will all of our 2009 donors walk away with a good feeling about helping us out but your name (or the name of your business) will be laser etched onto our 2009 donor plaque and you’ll receive a set of 3 pins and a bumper sticker. At the end of our ten day donor drive we’ll be holding draws for thousands of dollars worth of giveaways donated by local businesses. By making a donation today you will be eligible to win any of the stuff we unveil over the coming days.

We have giveaways from a bunch of companies including Dace, Mint Records, Vincent Park, Girl, Arc’teryx, Furni, Crownfarmer, 32 snowboard boots, Dragon, Purdy’s, E’s, Medina, UBC Botanical Gardens, The MOV, 49th Parallel Roasters, Vancouver Special, Color Magazine, Vans, Westbeach, Endeavor, Arson and Orb.

One of today’s featured giveaways is this backpack/laptop carrier courtesy of Arc’teryx…

We’ve also got 2 waterproof Outdoor Research hats that will “keep you warm and dry through all-day monsoons”…

And 3 pairs of passes to see Ravishing Beasts at the Museum of Vancouver…

Stay tuned over the next ten days as we unveil all of the prizes and bring you all of the reasons why we need you to help us out.

Click above to donate by credit card, or if you would prefer to send us a cheque please make it payable to “Vancouver Is Awesome Inc” and mail it to us at our office:

Vancouver Is Awesome Inc
208 – 950 Powell Street
Vancouver BC
V6A 1H9

A huge thank you in advance to everyone who makes a donation or who has supported us in any way! You are truly awesome.