The following is a note from Grace Winnfield, owner and designer of Gracie’s Bridal. For those of you who don’t know her, Grace is one of the warmest and most generous people in Second Life. I would appreciate it if you would read on, my friends, and, if you are so inclined, please contact Grace to offer support, as outlined in her message.
Thanks, everyone.
Breezie
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Please read on for important information on participating in a designer cause to abolish human trafficking. YOU can make a difference.. even if you only do one small thing!
roughly
27 million people
are held in slavery
worldwide today
the average age of
a trafficked victim is 14
every 2 minutes a child is being prepared
for sexual exploitation
Over the next few weeks to months I am planning to organize a location dedicated to raising money for organizations working against Human Trafficking. The two primary organizations that will be recipients of funds raised are; The A21 Campaign (www.A21campaign.org), and Not For Sale (www.notforsalecampaign.org). Please take a minute to visit the websites and read about what these two phenomenal organizations are doing. The following is a brief outline of the goals of my project. If you are interested in participating please send me a notecard indicating what you will be offering.
1. Acquire land, or a location on which to build a informational site with vendors that will serve as a source of donation.
2. Land will be paid for by me, donated by a landowner, or paid by me with a donation box for tier at the location clearly spelled out as for tier and me making the difference each month.
3. Two avatars will be created and named for each group accordingly; ie: notforsale somelastname, and A21Campaign somelastname.
4. Vendors will be created and access given to select individuals who would like to offer an item with 100% of proceeds going to one or both of the organizations. Funds will be deposited via script into one of the avatars accounts and at intervals withdrawn and donated.
5. Donations will be pulled from Avatar accounts at given intervals of appoximately $150 US dollar equivalents of conversion, and donated to the appropriate organization.
6. Vendors may be removed at the discretion of the designer and may also be replaced with new designs if desired. Designer retains rights to permissions and the design itself.
7. If any one design becomes stagnant in sales for a long period of time a new designer or new design may be requested to take its place.
8. A blog will be created, and designers or laypeople may request access to post.
9. A group will be created, open access, designers will be given ability to post any new items available at the donation site. (please no abuse of this)
10. A small wall will be available within the location thanking each designer for their contribution and offering landmarks to their primary location. (landmarks may also be boxed into the purchase.)
11. Additional guidelines may apply later as this gets moving dependent upon interest and logistics of the items and placement.
If you are interested in placing an item or two in the location these will be the preferred guidelines:
1. Original work only. No purchased template based items.. must be your design.
2. Prefer items Unique/ EXCLUSIVE to this location, created for the organization (to be called after Not For Sale logo to be created will include the number 21 in the word Sale)
3. Initial creations are encouraged to include ; the color ORANGE (significant to Not for sale campaign, how do you wear your orange), and may contain the words A21, A21 Campaign, Not For Sale or the logo (which will be distributed).
4. Types of designs, NOT LIMITED.. may be a simple as a t-shirt (i will be picky about how many of these we get), a full outfit, shoes, hair, dresses, gowns, male clothing, jackets, candles, bags, hats… etc. I am disallowing furniture and builds at this time but will consider them later.
PLEASE SEND ME (Grace Winnfield) A NOTECARD WITH YOUR NAME, STORE NAME, AND TYPE OF ITEM YOU WILL LIKELY PLACE. Try hard to get these to me by October 10, 2009. I will add you to my list, review your work, and send you additional information as we get closer to opening. Depending on how many responses i get I may need to decline some designers for the time being.
If you have a location (aka land) and would like to donate space for this please contact me asap as i am starting to search now.
I appreciate your reading this VERY LONG n/c.. and for your interest in helping me with this very important cause.
God Bless!
~Grace Winnfield
If you need a little fix to get you through the wait, check out last year’s Flickr Group.
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