STOP SIDS INFORMATION POST

This community was created on March 31, 2011 as an effort to raise awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and to assist in raising funds for future SIDS research. We are currently running a fandom charity fundraiser that is based as a multi-fandom, multi-media auction. All of the proceeds gathered from this auction and charity event have one purpose, and one purpose only: to prevent SIDS from affecting other families.

My name is musesinspire. On March 26, 2004, my husband and I were gifted with a beautiful little girl that we named Alexis Lee (Lexy). Our family of 5, as we already had two other little girls, were happy and complete. On the evening of May 24, 2004, Lexy was tragically taken from us and became another victim of SIDS. We now call May 24th 'Lexy's Angel Day'. My personal effort in this community is to do everything in my power to educate other parents and to ensure that research efforts continue.

You are invited, and encouraged, to participate in this year's STOP SIDS CHARITY FUNDRAISER! This auction will begin on MAY 1, 2012 and will end at midnight, MAY 31, 2012 EST! Below is all of the information needed to be a part of this event. For those of you who ARE NOT LIVEJOURNAL MEMBERS, you are still able to place bids on the various offers. You can do this by replying to the comment as 'anonymous'. If you do this, please be sure to provide your name and some sort of contact information so that you can be reached in the event that you win the auction for your items.

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Community Maintainers:

♥ musesinspire
♥ chosenfire28
♥ littleriri1148
♥ skylar0grace
♥ dhark_charlotte

Please feel free to contact us at any time by emailing us at: stopsids [at] hotmail [dot] com



Donation Information:

After the auction ends and you have been declared the winner of the offer you have bid on, please go to one of the below DONATION LINKS and make your donation. When you have received your confirmation, please contact your offeror and let them know that the donation has been made.

To see where your money from your donations is going and what it is being used for, please CLICK HERE

♥ FirstCandle.org: DONATE HERE
♥ SIDSma.org: DONATE HERE
♥ CJSIDS.org: DONATE HERE
♥ SIDS.org: DONATE HERE

So you have gone through all of the offer posts and nothing quite hit your fancy, eh? Well... use this post to make a request!

How To Request

Please comment to this post and list the type of item you are requesting and fandom (if relevant) in the Subject.

Paste the following into the Comment window and fill in the spaces.

One request, one comment. If you are requesting mutiple items separately, submit one comment for each item.

In the "Payment (in USD)" section, please include the following information [choose all that apply]:
-monetary range (in USD) you’re willing to donate in (e.g. $5 to $30). (Actual donations, however, can be made in any currency, -as long as the current conversion rates are used accordingly.)
-Whether or not you would be willing to pay separately for shipping expenses (for tangible items)

If you have reached your designated maximum amount of offers prior to the end of auction, please make a comment to your own request thread, stating: "This request is now closed."

_{*I used the 'Request Posts' info from helpthesouth}

<b>Username:</b> <b>Type:</b> (icons, drabbles, cookies, whatever) <b>Fandom:</b> <b>Payment:</b> (in USD) <b>Additional Info:</b>

Please post a comment here to this post if you are offering items that you are willing to make 'on the spot' for the auction. This includes any items that you wish; icons, artwork, videos, cookies, fiction, etc. Please use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to) to make your offer:

<b>Offering:</b> (item being offered) <b>Limit:</b> (how many pieces, how many bidders, etc) <b>Price:</b> (starting bid) <b>Genres/Types/Etc</b>: (do you only do fluff? slash? angst? porn? do you do crossovers? etc...) <b>Fandoms/Characters/Pairings</b>: (which fandoms/chars/pairings are you WILLING to do?) <b>Examples</b>: (links to any examples you'd like to show) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

Please post a comment here to this post if you are offering homemade items for the auction. This includes items that are baked/cooked, scrapbooks, items you have sewn, etc. Please use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to) to make your offer:

<b>Offering:</b> (homemade item being offered) <b>Limit:</b> (how many pieces, how many bidders, etc) <b>Price:</b> (starting bid) <b>Examples</b>: (links to any examples you'd like to show) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

Please post a comment here to this post if you are offering fiction for the auction. This includes fanfiction, original work, poetry, etc. Please use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to) to make your offer:

<b>Offering:</b> (fanfiction, original, etc) <b>Limit:</b> (how many pieces, how many bidders, etc) <b>Price:</b> (starting bid) <b>Genres/Types/Etc</b>: (do you only do fluff? slash? angst? porn? do you do crossovers? etc...) <b>Fandoms/Characters/Pairings</b>: (which fandoms/chars/pairings are you WILLING to do?) <b>Examples</b>: (links to any examples you'd like to show) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

Please post a comment here to this post if you are offering videos or audio for the auction. This includes fan oriented work such as fan-vids and/or fanmixes, etc. Please use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to) to make your offer:

<b>Offering:</b> (fan videos, fanmixes, pod fic, etc) <b>Limit:</b> (how many pieces, how many bidders, etc) <b>Price:</b> (starting bid) <b>Genres/Types/Etc</b>: (do you only do fluff? slash? angst? porn? do you do crossovers? etc...) <b>Fandoms/Characters/Pairings</b>: (which fandoms/chars/pairings are you WILLING to do?) <b>Examples</b>: (links to any examples you'd like to show) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

Please post a comment here to this post if you are offering artwork for the auction. This includes fan oriented work (fanart, story art, icons, etc...) and also traditional art (paintings, sketches, etc...). Please use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to) to make your offer:

<b>Offering:</b> (icons, banners, headers, wallpapers, etc) <b>Limit:</b> (how many pieces, how many bidders, etc) <b>Price:</b> (starting bid) <b>Genres/Types/Etc</b>: (do you only do fluff? slash? angst? porn? do you do crossovers? etc...) <b>Fandoms/Characters/Pairings</b>: (which fandoms/chars/pairings are you WILLING to do?) <b>Examples</b>: (links to any examples you'd like to show) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

Thank you for all of your efforts in making this such a success the first time around! :-)

Please comment here to this post with your donation confirmation information. Please use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to):

<b>Username:</b> (your name) <b>Offeror's Name Won:</b> (Whose offer did you win) <b>Donation Amount:</b> (winning bid) <b>Donation Information</b>: (confirmation number or, if you are not given a confirmation number, a link to a screenshot of your confirmation page) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

Should there be any problems with this process, please feel free to contact any of the following stop_sids moderators:

musesinspire
littleriri1148
skylar0grace
dhark_charlotte

Thank you so much for helping to make the first annual Stop SIDS Charity Fundraiser such a success for aiding in the prevention of this tragedy from continuing!

Donation Information:

After the auction ends and you have been declared the winner of the offer you have bid on, please go to one of the below DONATION LINKS and make your donation. When you have received your confirmation, please contact your offeror and let them know that the donation has been made.

To see where your money from your donations is going and what it is being used for, please CLICK HERE

» FirstCandle.org: DONATE HERE
» SIDSma.org: DONATE HERE
» CJSIDS.org: DONATE HERE
» SIDS.org: DONATE HERE

These organizations are our main donation recipients. However, if you are aware of another site or organization dealing with SIDS that you would like to donate to, please do so. After donating, please confirm with your artist by sending a (truncated) email or a screenshot of your donation. Be sure to remove all information you do not want made public! You will, however, need to be sure to leave enough information that your donation can be confirmed... LOL

If there are any issues with donations and/or confirmations, please contact any of the following moderators and we will be happy to help resolve the problem for you:

Community Maintainers:

» musesinspire
» dhark_charlotte
» littleriri1148
» skylar0grace

We are also available via email, at stopSIDS [at] hotmail [dot] com. Or you can just EMAIL US FROM THIS LINK. We will endeavor to get back with you within 24 hours!

Thank you!
~ musesinspire
Comm Owner

Please post a comment here to this post if you are offering something with the option of 'Buy It Now'. Use the below format (copy & paste into the reply box and edit as you need to):

<b>Offering:</b> (icons, fiction, podcast, wallpapers, etc) <b>Limit:</b> (how many pieces, how many bidders, etc) <b>Price:</b> (starting bid) <b>Genres/Types/Etc</b>: (do you only do fluff? slash? angst? porn? do you do crossovers? etc...) <b>Fandoms/Characters/Pairings</b>: (which fandoms/chars/pairings are you WILLING to do?) <b>Examples</b>: (links to any examples you'd like to show) <b>Other</b>: (any other notes you'd need to let anyone know?)

So you have gone through all of the offer posts and nothing quite hit your fancy, eh? Well... use this post to make a request!

How To Request

Please comment to this post and list the type of item you are requesting and fandom (if relevant) in the Subject.

Paste the following into the Comment window and fill in the spaces.

One request, one comment. If you are requesting mutiple items separately, submit one comment for each item.

In the "Payment (in USD)" section, please include the following information [choose all that apply]:
-monetary range (in USD) you’re willing to donate in (e.g. $5 to $30). (Actual donations, however, can be made in any currency, -as long as the current conversion rates are used accordingly.)
-Whether or not you would be willing to pay separately for shipping expenses (for tangible items)

If you have reached your designated maximum amount of offers prior to the end of auction, please make a comment to your own request thread, stating: "This request is now closed."

_{*I used the 'Request Posts' info from helpthesouth}

<b>Username:</b> <b>Type:</b> (icons, drabbles, cookies, whatever) <b>Fandom:</b> <b>Payment:</b> (in USD) <b>Additional Info:</b>

Please feel free to use any of the following graphics to promote our community by copying and pasting from the text boxes provided:

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This community was created as an effort to raise awareness of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and to assist in raising funds for future SIDS research. All of the proceeds gathered from this auction and charity event have one purpose, and one purpose only: to prevent SIDS from affecting other families.

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