{"id":3013,"date":"2025-11-03T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:26:28","slug":"giftmas-2025-sign-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/giftmas-2025-sign-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Giftmas 2025 Sign-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image1-1024x480.png\" alt=\"Giftmas 2025 - a watercolour penguin with a red santa hat decorates a white coniferous tree with coloured balls\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image1-980x459.png 980w, https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image1-480x225.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Every year some of my friends and I work together to support our favourite charities. As it has been most years, this year&#8217;s fundraiser is going to benefit the Edmonton Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us have a personal connection to the food bank and all of us have an interest in helping people put food on the table during the holiday season. The winter holidays can be wonderful and magical, but they can also be difficult and stressful so we&#8217;re doing what we can to help.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser will be supported by a <strong>blog tour from December 1st \u2013 December 8th<\/strong> and I\u2019m looking for people to participate in that.<\/p>\n<p>To join in you need to have a blog* and a willingness to write a post which includes a link to the fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Some participants will be giving away short stories or books as a part of the fundraiser as well and while I encourage this it is not obligatory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s fundraiser theme is human connection and people helping people. In that spirit I ask that no algorithmically generated text or images be used on any blog or social media posts associated with the fundraiser.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><a style=\"color: #993366;\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/MMi1Cm2BeyLTUw3f6\"><strong>Sign up Here<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sign-ups will close November 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Timeline:<br \/>\nNow &#8211; Fundraisers\/bloggers sign up to participate.<br \/>\nNovember 17th &#8211; Sign-ups end<br \/>\nDecember 1 &#8211; Fundraiser officially opens<br \/>\nDecember 8 &#8211; Fundraiser officially closes<\/p>\n<p>Fundraiser page &#8211;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/pages\/giftmas-2025\/\">https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/pages\/giftmas-2025\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*however you define \u2018blog\u2019. Some people have used self-hosted elaborate blogs, some have used Goodreads and occasionally we\u2019ve even had people use public Facebook posts. If you want to participate and don\u2019t have any of those things I would be happy to host you on my website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3018 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image2.png\" alt=\"Giftmas 2025 text in red beside two happy looking watercolour snowpeople. Both snowpeople are wearing red scarfs. In addition, one is wearing a black hat and the other has a floppy brimmed beige hat.\" width=\"750\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image2.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Image2-480x142.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 750px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year some of my friends and I work together to support our favourite charities. As it has been most years, this year&#8217;s fundraiser is going to benefit the Edmonton Food Bank. 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