Reaching Out With Flowers
As we begin our 25th business year in November 2009, I'm proud of our efforts as a small self-financed business to be reaching out to help charitable causes in our community.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well”. – Margaret Thatcher
Of course if we'd had precognition about website development, we would have kept all those laudatory letters recognizing our contributions over the years. While times have changed, economically for everyone there is a constancy in connection and
service.
It's been fun to reminisce about:
participating in the "share, love, give hope" World Vision campaign to support HIV/AIDS work in Africa. For every dozen roses we sold for Valentine's Day, $3 was donated to the compaign.
our repeated donations at Christmas to the man who gave patients at St. Paul's Hospital bouquets for their rooms;
for a decade or so,buckets of flower stems,handed out at the Aids Memorial Service held in Vancouver in May each year;
mini-bouquets and poinsettias dropped off at the church at Georgia and Richards for their annual feed-the-hungry Christmas dinner;
centerpieces for a fundraiser for battered women;
custom dried/silk arrangements annually for a decade to Credit Union Central of BC for their annual United Way auction;
gift certificates for the annual Gambado auction;
boutonniers for graduating dogs at the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society PADS annual graduation in September and gift ceritifcates for their fundraiser-auction.
And we get multiple requests weekly from many others, which, of course, we're unable to support. Once we were asked to donate table centerpieces for a women's golf tournament that didn't have any good-cause-sponsorship in its agenda, just golf. Sorry....but our hard labour and talent can't support your fun, just for the fun of it (tic).
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