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Ryn

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 05:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
From the official site:

Who are the celebrities playing for? The celebrities are going to struggle for a while, and what do they get out of it? Why, money for some of their favorite charities, of course. Here's who they're playing for (ed - with links and descriptions I looked up):

Maria Conchita Alonso: US Humane Society- "The HSUS is dedicated to creating a world where our relationship with animals is guided by compassion."

Tyson Beckford: God's Love We Deliver in New York - "Providing meals for people with AIDs and other serious illnesses."

'Downtown" Julie Brown: City Of Hope Cancer Research Center - "an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution located just outside Los Angeles, California."

Bruce Jenner: Sierra Canyon School - "Sierra Canyon School (Early kindergarten-eighth grade) offers quality education and athletic programs for its students."

Cris Judd: Make A Wish Foundation - "the premier wish-granting organization for children"

Robin Leach: Keep Memory Alive (Read below for info) and City Meals On Wheels in New York - "a non-profit organization providing funding for meals on wheels to the homebound elderly of New York City"

Melissa Rivers: Make A Wish Foundation - "the premier wish-granting organization for children"

Nikki Schieler Ziering: Special Wish Foundation - "dedicated to granting the wishes of children under the age of 21 and diagnosed as having a life- threatening disorder."

Alana Stewart: Kabbalah Children's Academy (Religious school/camp, no 'good' link) and Holly Grove Orphanage (no good link - located in Los Angeles)

"Stuttering" John: Spinal Cord Society - "goal is cure of spinal cord injury paralysis"

I could not find a home page for "Keep Memory Alive" - but I did find a mention of it that also mentioned Robin HERE - you will have to scroll down to "Small Party..." to read the blurb. Here is part of it, "In May, a VIP coterie of only 256 guests managed to raise more than $2 million" ... "at the Keep Memory Alive fund-raiser for the Alzheimer's Foundation of Las Vegas." ..... "Robin Leach served as the evening's auctioneer"

Ryn

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 05:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This is who the prize money will go to depending on who wins. I would guess each charity will get SOME money, but the big bucks will obviously go to the winner, so you might look past the people and vote for the charity.

Pamy

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 07:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for this thread Ryn, I was wondering why they don't promote which charity each one is playing for more, maybe they will when they start getting booted

Theowl

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 08:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Ryn!! I knew I saw it somewhere! VOTE FOR MARIA!!!

Ryn

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 12:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wanted to clarify that ABC only provided the names of the charities, I looked up all the links and info.

Ryn

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 12:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Here are a couiple of differences between "Make a Wish" and "Special Wish"

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Make a Wish - Founded in 1980

Eligibility: "Any child under the age of 18 with a life-threatening illness may be eligible for a wish."

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Special Wish - Founded in 1982

"...the only major wish-granting organization in the United States that grants wishes to qualifying infants, children, and adolescents from birth through and including the age of 20 years."

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So 18,19, and 20 year olds are not eligible for Make-a-Wish but are for A Special Wish.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 02:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ryn, you are such a treasure :) Always there with info.

So.. I wanted to check out some of these charities, partly because I've never been a fan of HSUS but didn't want to eliminate them based on uneasy feelings.

I found an online site charity tracker

Five charities are listed and evaluated. They give a rating of from 0 - 4 stars.

Make-A-Wish Foundation (Cris and Melissa)
City of Hope Cancer Research Center (Julie)
CityMeals on Wheels (Robin)
HSUS (Humane Society of US) (Maria)
God's Love We Deliver (Tyson)

The other charities were not listed..

. Sierra Canyon School (Bruce)
. A Special Wish Foundation (Nikki)
. Spinal Cord Society (John)
. Kabbaleh Children's Academy (Alana)
. Holly Grove Orphanage (Alana)
. Keep Memory Alive (Robin)

Ryn

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 05:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ABC updated the Charities page - these are the only celebrities affected:

Maria Conchita Alonso: US Humane Society, Global Medical Relief Fund and Venezuela Without Boundaries Foundation

Alana Stewart: Kabbalah Children's Academy and Hollygrove Children & Family Services

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG, I don' know where to put this RYN. I called many of the numbers and got busy singals. When I dialed John's #, They answered"YO Todd, who you voting for?"(I figured caller id. Anyways,I was voting for John. This guy said"Anyone else and I said Yeh. He said Who/" I said "are you taking al thenames, He said yeh and was hollering at someone telling them who I voted for. I said "Is this for real and he said Yeah and I said I don't have to dial in the numbers for the rest and he said NO. Then he asked me where I was calling from and I said KY and where are you? He said Florida. Isaid ok then. I then dialed another no. got busy signal and then dialed Jhn's # again. This guy answered and said I knew it was you and I said " I wanted to check it out ad see if it happened againfor real. He said "IT's for real." Yo still want to vote the way you did and I said yeah and he called ot the names and I said' yep, you got it." This was about 9:20p.m.in KY. time, last night a similar thing happened on Chris's #. Has this happened to anyone else? I don't know whether to be scared or what. It was just Freaky. The guy was laughung and all nice but I don't know what to think. I called a couple of the other nos. and after busy signal got throgh and the ususal thank you or woo hoo was given. Sorry about my typing and spellng but I'm trying to do this in a hurry. I just wanted to know if this happened to anone else?

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I'm calming down now. the similar thing with Chris's number happened last night. Should I contact CBS?

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Darn, I meant ABC! I can't think! I wish that darn nreve pill would kick in.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bizarre... I hope you aren't having to pay something..

I've never gotten anything but Busy signal or rings and not getting thru, or getting one of the recordings.

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Sea. I thought I was alone here. That'swhat I'm scared to death about.Someone has our number that shouldn't have.

Grooch

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sawheel, it sounds like this guy must have a very similiar phone number and you dialed it by accident. He must also be a fan of the show. Lol!

I have a card from last night that has the AI phone numbers for the contestants with the Get me out of here numbers also. I spent tonight mixing the numbers up and get all kinds of strange messages.

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Where's Dra or Ryn when I need them.

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Grooch, that's why I dialed it again.

Grooch

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But Saw, so did I.

Last night I wrote the first number down correctly. I did the last 2 number 8x. For the rest of the players I wrote down 0x. So I made a few mistakes with that.

And then there was me mixing up the numbers tonight.

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Grooch, I think I just got mod. LOL. The guy sounded like tyson and it threw me off even more. I said "NO TYson" because he was acting like a something. Don't want to get mod. again I guess I'll know when the phone bill gets here. Thanks again.LOL

Theowl

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Sawheel, If that wasn't so scary, it'd be really funny!!! Last night I called Maria and Cris numbers, and got alot of busy and some recorded messages. Tonight I just called Maria's number and got throught only 7 times. I didn't try Cris. I hope everything is OK, though. Maybe there's a way to contact ABC to let them know.

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
HI OWL, now that I shared it, IT IS TOO FUNNY. I think Grooch is right. I screwed the numbers up on AI too the other night. Oh well, I guess I'll find out when the phone bill comes in.LOL Just so ya know I voted for Maria both nights. I dialed in the otheer #'s just in case. Poor little John probably won't ever see his votes from me tonight. LOL I was afraid to call the number back. LOL.

Theowl

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was just thinking, I almost dialed 886 instead of 866. I wonder if you did that?? and the guy at 886 has been getting calls all week, and he's just having fun with it now. If he didn't like it, he'd take the phone off the hook. Right???

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, that's what's FUNNY now. Bless his heart. When he answered the phone the way he did, he must've gotten alot of calls this week. I just hope he's a friendly fan and doesn't make an over seas call using our number.LOL I know how to find a mod. now, just call someone a name (tyson) I should have remembered that from BB with Nicole. LOL I like Tyson's charity though. My dad delivers meals to the elderly and sick or disabled. Thanks for popping in. Just knowing someone was there to talk to, calmed me down. ( Maybe the nerve pill finally kicked in.) LOL

Grooch

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(((((((((Sawheel))))))))))))

We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so glad you are back! :)

Sawheel17

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Me Too and You know how much I love you all. There was a poster that started a thread the other day and said she was the biggest screw up on the board. I just shook my head and said "No Honey, I've got that TITLE" LOL Thank you again. xxoxo