Chuck’s Birthday Challenge

We’re still on for my Birthday Challenge, where my friends, neighbors, and co-workers get to pay to see me make a fool of myself in public all to support the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice.

So after getting some feedback about how I should embarrass myself for the birthday challenge.

Now, here’s the list:

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  $250 and my noggin could look like this

  If we raise $250, I’ll shave my head. “Bic it” as they say. I’ll end up looking something like Seth Godin.  OR I’ll provide all donors with a jar of preserves, a loaf of homemade bread, or a bottle of homebrew (out of towners will have to kick in for shipping).

• If we raise $500, I’ll recite The Lorax on a soap box on Main Street wearing a Cat in the Hat hat. It would be a nice Earth Day event (yes video will be taken.
• If we raise $750, I’ll make my own version of the Lazy Sunday music video. Choose this one at your own risk, I’m not that musically talented.
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  Yes, for $1000 raised for ICPJ I would dress up like this...in public.

  If we raise $1,000, I’ll Run the Dexter Ann Arbor run in fairy wings with a tiara and a wand. It might look something like this, only for real, not for incompetently photoshopped;

• and the grand prize, if we raise $2,500 I will wear a similar pink fairy costume all day, including to a board meeting, walking around campus, and downtown for dinner out.

Donations are accepted from now until March 31 either through Network for Good or through the Facebook Causes application. Every $50 get you 1 vote ($5-$50 is 1 vote, $51-$100 is 2, etc). If you’re not into online giving, you can mail donations to ICPJ, 730 Tappan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Make checks out to “ICPJ” and put “Chuck’s Challenge” in the subject line.

I want to point out that we can overshoot a goal and still go back to an earlier “prize.” So if you really want to hear the Lorax, but we raise $1,000, people can still vote to hear me recite. And remember, if that’s what you want, the more you donate the more you get to vote.

Finally, if any great ideas come up for other “prizes,” we can add them to the list. Voting will begin after the challenge finishes up.