Planning the steps. Can you help?

There’s an interesting competition developing over at James The Infopreneur’s place. He’s got wagers going with a number of his readers. For the record, Give A Brick has joined in. We’re working to raise the final £76,000 needed in donations to see our first project completed before James earns $4000 per month from his online adventures.

(To that end, if you’d like to help and you haven’t already, please donate £1 and then ask your friends to do the same. Paypal is now available so it’s even quicker and easier )

However the thought behind this post was prompted by a comment from Matthew from The Big Red Tomato Company. He’s got a great business mind and his reaction to the wagers challenged me:

“I think these goals or bets are great, I just think you need to make them goals now…when are you going to do them and what’s the first steps?”

He reminded me that in order to succeed in anything, we need to have a plan and then the knowledge of the steps necessary to put that plan into action.

To that end, Give A Brick needs your help. We think we’re the first charity to ask everyone to please just give a brick (i.e. £1 only) and to date, we’ve been using this website to encourage folks to do so.

However, do you think we should behave more like a traditional charity and start encouraging folks to do sponsored events for us? You know the sort of thing I mean: sponsored silence, sponsored, parachute jump, sponsored bath in baked beans … the list is limited only by your imagination

Give A Brick treasurer Dr Egg is doing a sponsored hair shave for Give A Brick. You can read an update on that tomorrow accompanied by photographs. My youngest sister is investigating bungee jumping for charity. There’s even talk of a sponsored cake making event

But I’m wondering if these events are something we need to be encouraging you to initiate. What do you think? Would a sponsored event be an easier way to ask your friends to each Give A Brick?

Along a similar vein, if you wanted to host a dinner party in aid of Give A Brick, there is now a website that makes the planning of this very simple. I’m thinking about having a garden party in the Summer to which I’d like to invite lots of children and their parents. Or how about your own version of ‘Come Dine With Me’? You could do a charity version of the TV show.

The list of offline ideas is limitless but given that we’re all constrained by the properties of time and space, is this something you think Give A Brick should spend time developing?

I’d love to hear what you think