PA214 Needs help with Pepsi Refresh Grant

[BIG Lt]

http://www.refresheverything.com/squadron104


Please vote for Squadron 104 in Philadelphia Pa. We are in the running for a 25k Grant from Pepsi. Log on and vote. It is simple and free. Voting ends July 31st. We need to be in the top ten to get the money. All the details are on the Pepsi 104 link.


PLEASE Vote

[exFlight Officer]

I saw your squadron while I was searching for something to vote for a few days ago. While I am not a Pepsi drinker, I do want to do good for communities.

... I voted 

[BIG Lt]

Thank you, vote every day PLEASE

[exFlight Officer]

What will you use the money for? Just wondering.

Edit: Nevermind, I spoke too soon. Read it on the page after I voted.

[NIN]

I voted and just reposted on my FB for all my friends to vote, too.

[BIG Lt]

Gracias!

[octavian]

Just voted.  Good luck!

[Capt Rivera]

got my vote

[BIG Lt]

This is our last chance to win. We are in 19th place, Please Vote

[Майор Хаткевич]

This is our last chance to win. We are in 19th place, Please Vote

In OP you stated voting ends July 31st...

[BIG Lt]

We came in the top Fifty, so we got another shot.  you can vote by text. Please leave a note on the page so we can thank you.

Text* 100229 to
Pepsi (73774)

[Майор Хаткевич]

We came in the top Fifty, so we got another shot.  you can vote by text. Please leave a note on the page so we can thank you.

Text* 100229 to
Pepsi (73774)

Voted. #16 atm.

[exFlight Officer]

I voted again. Now # 13. They have to be in the Top 10 to recieve the money.

[DakRadz]

Hehehe, Flight Officer and I shared this with everyone on Facebook

Doing my part to get C.A.P. in the top!!

Calls dibs on the next one.

Kidding, Capt Rivera

[Capt Rivera]

Voted before ... plus another 3 votes tonight....
- Online
- my cell
- Wife's cell

Also posted to facebook. Hope you get it...   

We have dibs on the next one!

[Майор Хаткевич]

#1 is a HS band which wants to spend 375K to perform at a NYC Parade? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

[Майор Хаткевич]

Voted on 2 PCs and 2 Cellphones. That school is just annoying...

[CadetProgramGuy]

Wow, I have an idea, submitted at noon.  1000 Ideas were already submitted.  I lost out.

Darn.......

[Capt Rivera]

Dropped down to 18?    well... sent 3 more votes your way...

[DakRadz]

Plus two, trying to get it waaaay back up the ladder.

[Capt Rivera]

Rank 113?  what happened?

[DakRadz]

Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrot

O.O

Wow.... We did try...

[BIG Lt]

THANKS, some of the money will be used to send some cadets to EMT School.

[Майор Хаткевич]

THANKS, some of the money will be used to send some cadets to EMT School.

Why? We don't have all that much use for them...

[davidsinn]

THANKS, some of the money will be used to send some cadets to EMT School.

Why? We don't have all that much use for them...

That might actually be an FWA thing too.

[Capt Rivera]

Best use of money... probably not.... FWA? hardly....

I know you stated money would be used for cadets... but a better choice then putting cadets through EMT school would be to pay the fees for long standing senior members to be CPR certified to teach/certify others... That's a gift that keeps on giving...

Give someone a EMT cert... you may never see them again... they might end up being to busy working... as a EMT...

CPR/First Aid for cadets would have been enough...

[davidsinn]

Best use of money... probably not.... FWA? hardly....

I know you stated money would be used for cadets... but a better choice then putting cadets through EMT school would be to pay the fees for long standing senior members to be CPR certified to teach/certify others... That's a gift that keeps on giving...

Give someone a EMT cert... you may never see them again... they might end up being to busy working... as a EMT...

CPR/First Aid for cadets would have been enough...

I'm thinking FWA because it's money raised using CAP but will only be for personal gain. We have no use growing new EMTs. If they used it for uniforms or encampment or field gear or things of that nature I'd have zero problem with it.

[♠SARKID♠]

#1 is a HS band which wants to spend 375K to perform at a NYC Parade? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Hey, that's a big honor dude, and it takes that kind of money if your band needs new uniforms and you want to send them at no cost to the students.

[CadetProgramGuy]

2 votes from me.

Good Luck!!

[Майор Хаткевич]

#1 is a HS band which wants to spend 375K to perform at a NYC Parade? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Hey, that's a big honor dude, and it takes that kind of money if your band needs new uniforms and you want to send them at no cost to the students.

$375,000 to send 175 Students from Florida to New York to perform once. So far they've raised 30K on their own. Besides the fact that at that rate all current members will probably be in college, why? Why not perform in the local community, support those who actually support them? I just view it as a waste of money honestly. They aren't getting new equipment or uniforms, a ton of that money is to transport their stuff across 7-8 state lines + the students.

[cnitas]

$375,000 is WAY too much to send 175 people from FL to NYC.

$300 greyhound adult fare round trip Miami NYC. x 175 people = 52,500
$7 per meal x 3 meals/day x 175 x 7 days = 25,725
Large U-haul to carry equipment and follow bus = 2,500
$85 hotel x 89 rooms (2 per room) x 7 nights = 52,955
Unforseen Expenses = $10,000

52,500 + 25,725 + 2,500 + 52,955 = 10,000= $143,680

And honestly, you could do if for much less using group rates for bus and hotel expenses, or if the trip was via aircraft and they stayed for 1 or 2 days.

[BIG Lt]

Thanks for all your help. we are back to 18th.

[HGjunkie]

#32

Oh boy.

[a2capt]

I despise Pepsi, I voted just because I'd like to see them spend money.