Friday, January 10, 2014

The Miracle League in Austin

Happy Friday everyone!

As I may have told you, for the past year I've been volunteering with Miracle League, a specially-designed place for kids with special needs to get outdoors and play softball and kickball with all the social and physical support they need. High-school-aged "Buddies" help guide kids to interact with the ball and get around the bases, and I've been helping the adult coaches as a field marshall, involving a number of tasks ranging from pitching, catching, outfielding, drawing in the less-active kids more into play, and assisting buddies with kids who need a bit of extra attention either medically or behaviorally. Recognize Good is an Austin-based philanthropic program with a mission to inspire and promote goodness in our city, and I am pleased to have an opportunity to help the Miracle League simply by voting for them. Voting can be repeated daily until January 26, so each day I plan on putting in as many votes as I can until then, and I ask anyone who can help to take part.

You know I don't do this often, but if you have a Twitter account, I have a favor to ask you. Please help me raise $10,000 for the Miracle League organization by simply tweeting:


BROWN #SayThanksAustin @RecognizeGood


There are other easy ways to vote as well, each day:



  1. Email your vote (including the word BROWN) to saythanks@recognizegood.org
  2. Text last name (BROWN) to 512.213.4383
  3. Send RecognizeGood a message (including the word BROWN) on Facebook
  4. Tweet last name BROWN to @recognizegood with hashtag #SayThanksAustin
  5. Online at RecognizeGood.org (follow the Login to Say Thanks)
  6. STAC Mobile App (search STAC in Google Play Store or Apple App Store)
  7. Physical voting card (email Traceyb1@sbcglogal.net for card)

If you want to watch a YouTube video about this, click here and/or go to the RecognizeGood site.


Your help is appreciated!! Love you all and wishing you a happy and healthy 2014!


Laura








Miracle League needs your help for us to have a chance at a donation of $10,000.00!

If Miracle League’s Steve and Tracey Brown receive the most votes, then RecognizeGood will reward us with $10,000 that will go directly to the MIRACLE LEAGUE!

Voting opened at 12:00AM on 1/2/14 and closes at 11:59PM on 1/26/14.

Anyone in the world may vote for the Browns, 7 Different Ways EACH DAY. So you could vote 7 times per day through January 26th at midnight. So if you started voting TODAY, that would add up to 133 total votes for you alone! How cool is that?

Here are the 7 ways to vote EACH DAY (click on the links to go directly to that application):

  1. Email your vote (including the word BROWN) tosaythanks@recognizegood.org
  2. Text last name (BROWN) to 512.213.4383
  3. Send RecognizeGood a message (including the word BROWN) on Facebook
  4. Tweet last name BROWN to @recognizegood with hashtag #SayThanksAustin
  5. Online at RecognizeGood.org (follow the Login to Say Thanks)
  6. STAC Mobile App (search STAC in Google Play Store or Apple App Store)
  7. Physical voting card (email Traceyb1@sbcglogal.net for card)

If you want more information on RecognizeGood, The Miracle League or the SAY THANKS AUSTIN program that they are running, please click through to our website at http://miracle.tandcsports.org/page.php?p=148




2 comments:

RecognizeGood said...

Thank you so much, Laura! Steve and Tracey Brown are incredibly people, and wholly deserving of every "thank you" vote they get leading up to the Say Thanks Austin ceremony. Because of blogs like yours, Austin is buzzing with GOOD news this month!

Laura "Sko" said...

Wonderful, thank you! And thank you so much for being out there. Yours is a truly great organization too and just one more reason to love Austin! Thank you for helping us to recognize the goodness in this city!