{"id":3055,"date":"2025-11-30T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:05:36","slug":"giftmas-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/giftmas-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Giftmas 2025"},"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<p>Every year some of my friends and I organise a fundraiser to help support the Edmonton Food Bank and we use our blogs to try and signal boost it. This is that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This year <strong>we are trying to raise $1,500<\/strong> for the Edmonton Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Because of their community connections and bulk-buying abilities, <strong>the Edmonton Food Bank can turn every $1 cash donation into 3 meals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of like magic. Real measurable magic that means when I tell you that every dollar counts you can do the math and <em>know<\/em> that it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>And it means that if we reach our goal we will have provided 4,500 meals to struggling people.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser officially begins tomorrow &#8212; on December 1st, but I have it on good authority that it&#8217;s possible to donate early if you<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/pages\/giftmas-2025\/\">Go Here To Donate<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>But, if your alignment is Lawful Good and you want to wait for the event to <em>actually<\/em> begin before you donate, allow me to share the line-up that we have in store for you over the coming several days:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">November 30th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/\">Rhonda Parrish<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 1st &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethcato.com\/\">Beth Cato<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 2nd &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniecainonline.com\/blog\">Stephanie A. Cain<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 3rd &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lauravanarendonkbaugh.com\/\">Laura VanArendonk Baugh<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 4th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamieperrault.com\/\">Jamie Perrault<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 5th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jemimapett.com\/\">Jemima Pett<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 6th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/susanmayse.ca\/posts\/\">Susan Mayse<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">December 7th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bdwilson\/\">BD Wilson<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">December 8th &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/\">Rhonda Parrish<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will be updating this list as the fundraiser progresses to share additional details about each stop.<\/p>\n<p>Some years we have solid, formal themes, some years we don&#8217;t. But this year we fall somewhere in the middle. We don&#8217;t have an official theme but I think there&#8217;s an unofficial one &#8212; I think there is an unofficial one every year. And that is people helping people. Because we can.<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot help financially, I totally get it &#8212; but maybe share this link with a friend. Or if you see us posting about this on social media give us a like or a repost. Helping to boost our signal can be really helpful and doesn&#8217;t cost a dime.<\/p>\n<p>See you back here or over at Beth Cato&#8217;s blog tomorrow to get things started!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Giftmas2025-1600x400-1-1024x256.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Giftmas2025-1600x400-1-980x245.png 980w, https:\/\/www.rhondaparrish.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Giftmas2025-1600x400-1-480x120.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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">To the best of my knowledge, all art on our graphics is human-created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Stellalunart\">Stellalunart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year some of my friends and I organise a fundraiser to help support the Edmonton Food Bank and we use our blogs to try and signal boost it. 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