Welcome to Sandy’s Five Days of SAF fundraising page!
I’m raising $1000 over the next five days for Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) and I need your help!
SAF is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.
I worked with SAF during the summer of 2008 as part of their Into the Fields internship program along with 30 other students from around the country, many of them from farmworker families. I spent my summer working to organize migrant farmworkers in the NC tobacco fields and build awareness in the community.
My SAF summer was an incredibly powerful experience, and helped me decide to start my career in nonprofit work with Latinos. I’ve stayed involved in the movement ever since, and I continue to keep in touch and volunteer with the great folks at SAF. Check out this list of their programs for more info about the powerful work SAF does with farmworkers and students.
As many of you know, SAF holds a particularly special place in my heart due to my grandmother’s work with them in the past. Joan Preiss dedicated herself to the farmworker movement for decades. I owe my interest in this work to her influence. Joan died a year and a half ago, and SAF does an incredible job of carrying on her memory and amazing energy in the fight for farmworker justice.
I’m running a five-day campaign from December 15th to 19th, with the goal to raise a minimum of $1000 to support SAF’s work. In order to meet my goal, I need:
- 1 donor to give $250
- 3 donors to give $100 each
- 5 donors to give $50 each
- 8 donors to give $25 each
I’ve started things off by making a $50 donation. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to support SAF’s work with farmworkers of any amount that is significant to you.
Click the green Donate button to the right to donate now!
Peace, love, and thanks,
Sandy Preiss
¡Hasta la victoria!
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photo credits to my fellow intern Elise Francisco
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SAF's grassroots fundraising goal is to raise $23,000 through online fundraising and house parties!
SAF uses money raised from individuals to:
- conduct outreach to students and farmworkers,
- provide training, stipends, and scholarships for our interns, students organizers, and youth,
- share documentaries and presentations with the general public, and
- provide a living wage and full benefits to our staff
Check out our online fundraisers' campaign pages and donate here!
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Ethan Slattery | 12/21/2013 | $25.00 | Awesome cause man! | Reed Palmer | 12/19/2013 | $20.00 | Merry Christmas! Keep doing great things man. | Jack Preiss | 12/19/2013 | $100.00 | Sanny applause for your effort. Joan would have loved you for it,especially since you mentioned her as an inspiration. | Jack Preiss | 12/19/2013 | $100.00 | Much applause to you, especially acknowledging Joan in your appeal. She would have been grateful for that. Viva Sandy | Jonathan Maurell Cobb | 12/19/2013 | $10.00 | Frederick Evan Benz | 12/18/2013 | $10.00 | Alison Greene | 12/18/2013 | $50.00 | Jackie Loraine Fitzgerald | 12/18/2013 | $25.00 | Ryan Bailey | 12/18/2013 | $25.00 | Great mission. | Ben and Muriel | 12/18/2013 | $25.00 | Max Palmer | 12/17/2013 | $30.00 | I'll eat to it! | Andrea Cabrera | 12/17/2013 | $25.00 | William Palmer | 12/17/2013 | $25.00 | On behalf of the Palmer/Carrigan family | Justin Bailey | 12/17/2013 | $100.00 | Proud supporter of all things Sandy certified, but this in particular seems worthy. | Anthony Preiss | 12/17/2013 | $250.00 | We are so proud Sandy is carrying on Joan's good works. We love you Sonny. | Anonymous Friend | 12/17/2013 | $50.00 | I got you S to the Z. Trust! Believe! | Richard and Janice B. Palmer | 12/16/2013 | $100.00 | We are pleased to join in and grateful that you are our grandson. | James Preiss | 12/16/2013 | $100.00 | S.L. | Kim Bailey | 12/16/2013 | $50.00 | Happy to support such a good cause! | Stephanie Fennimore | 12/16/2013 | $50.00 | Cassandra Canez | 12/16/2013 | $100.00 | Lee Lampe | 12/16/2013 | $100.00 | Tusks | Sandy Jackson Preiss | 12/15/2013 | $50.00 | Steven Schwickerath | 12/15/2013 | $20.00 | Hasta la victoria! | Elisabeth Hargrove | 12/15/2013 | $25.00 | Sarah L. Palmer | 12/15/2013 | $15.00 | You make me proud, Sandy! | Natalie Wainwright | 12/15/2013 | $30.00 | A great cause. |
| Total | $1,510.00 | ||