Support HandMade in America with a Cup of Coffee

Buy HandMade in America a cup of coffee for $5, enter to win a piece of WNC craft, and get HandMade $35,000.

Starbucks is giving $4 million to non-profits all over the country and you get to chose where it goes. HandMade in America is one of 124 non-profits chosen nationwide and one of the smallest of the non-profits chosen in North Carolina. HandMade serves over four thousand craft artists in the 25 county region of Western North Carolina, working within the state of North Carolina. Turn your $5 into at least $50 back to HandMade in America.

 

For the month of April 2012, Community Card: Vote.Give.Grow. will give Starbucks customers, for the first time ever, the ability to direct a $4 million investment from the Starbucks Foundation to local non-profits across the U.S. providing innovative community revitalization and needed services for the underserved.

 

HandMade in America was selected to participate based on its belief in the power of the handmade object to transform both individuals and communities through education, entrepreneurship and economic development. HandMade in America has an 18-year tradition for pioneering innovative ways to empower the people and towns of Western North Carolina through programs that educate and facilitate the needs of creative entrepreneurs and communities.

 

The easy way to help:

Donate $5 by clicking this paypal button, and HandMade will buy your community card and vote for you and register you to win a piece of WNC craft.

 

The more involved way to help:

To participate, customers will choose to make their registered Starbucks Cards a “Community Card” by opting in online. Customers can cast votes once per week throughout the month of April. 

Either way, be sure to enter our drawing for free WNC craft items (9 worth at least $20) if you register and vote for HandMade by emailing starbucks@handmadeinamerica.org today.

How to cast your vote:

1.    Go to: www.votegivegrow.com

2.    Click Get Started You can either:

•    create an account with a card you have bought at any Starbucks or Gift Card Mall

•    login to your existing account

•    Send an eGift to yourself, register it and start voting all within a few minutes.

3.     Find HandMade in America by searching community or by organization name (zip code 28801)

4.     Vote HandMade in America!

5.     Sign in each week in the month of April to cast your vote for HandMade in America. You have a total of four votes.