Contact: Alan Shawn Feinstein

401-467-5155 or 401-941-5913                                 For Immediate Release

                                                                                   

Feinstein Offers Another $1 Million Giveaway

                             To Fight Hunger

 

For the tenth straight year, Alan Shawn Feinstein will divide $1 million among hunger fighting agencies nationwide using it to help them raise funds during March and April, 2007.

 

Agencies should simply inform their donors that the more of a donation they make to their agency - from March 1^st to April 30^th– the more of the Feinstein money will be added to their donation! Many agencies say that featuring this in their mailings and telephone solicitations has increased their donations two or three times their usual returns!  Only donations received from March 1^st to April 30^th, and from use of the Feinstein challenge, should be counted.  These donations can include cash, checks and food items (that can be valued at $1.00 per item or pound) as well as pledges, as long as they were obtained ONLY in response to our challenge.

 

Participating agencies should send in the enclosed reporting sheet(below), showing the total they raised from March 1^st to April 30^th, 2007 from use of our challenge, with copies of any publicity they received about it, and copies of their mailing piece(s) featuring our challenge, plus a copy of their federal tax-exemption (501C3) or proof of affiliation with a tax-exempt organization – all sent by regular mail in one envelope postmarked May 1^st   to May 9^th, 2007 only, to: The Feinstein Foundation, 37 Alhambra Circle, RI 02905.  Nothing else is required.  Please keep a record of what you raised and from whom should verification be requested!

 

Our million dollars will then be divided proportionately among all agencies complying with the above (a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $50,000 to all participating agencies). Checks will be mailed by August 1^st, 2007.

 

Feinstein’s past $1 million challenges to fight hunger have raised a record $620 million for agencies nationwide. Agencies should tell their donors that their donation toward this campaign makes them partners in the most successful grassroots campaign to fight hunger of all times. That is something they can take great pride in.

 

A full report of the results of the 2007 Challenge will be posted on our website in July.

                                   

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 Report on Donations Received in Response to the

 Feinstein March/April 2007 $1 Million Challenge

TO BE MAILED ONLY FROM MAY 1 –9, 2007

To: Alan Shawn Feinstein, 37 Alhambra Circle, Cranston, RI 02905

 

Agency Name: ______________________________________________________

 

Address: ______________________City___________________State ______                                                                                                                                                 Zip_______­

Telephone Number: (         )______________________

 

Name and Title of the Person Making this Report: _______________________________

 

Total amount raised from March 1^st to April 30, 2007 (from use of our $1 million challenge only)  Cash & Checks $ _____________    Food items ($1.00 per item or per pound) $___________   Pledges  $ _____________  Total of  all $__________________

 

Total number of donors it was raised from: _______________

 

Please clearly print your email address here:________________________________

(This will be kept strictly confidential) Please notify us of any change so we can keep you abreast of our latest news.

 

 

 

 

If you have participated before, please note the year(s) here:_______________________

 

If you haven’t, who/what prompted you to do so this year:_________________________

________________________________________________________________________

 

 Please enclose a copy of any mailing(s) you sent out about our challenge and/or news of any other ways you used it.  Also a copy of your federal tax-exemption (501C3) or proof of affiliation with a tax-exempt organization, even if you have participated in previous years.

 

                                                                                    Thank you,

                                                                                    Alan Shawn Feinstein, CEO

                                                                                    The Feinstein Foundation

 

 

Here is how you can use the Feinstein $1 million challenge to bring you in more donations than ever before:

 

1.        Feature our offer in your next solicitation mailing, per the next paragraph.  The more prominently you feature it, the more donations it will bring you!

 

2.        Tell your donors that any donations they send to you in March or April will get Feinstein money from Rhode Island added to it – and the more of a donation they send to you, the more of the Feinstein $1 million you’ll get – thanks to them!  Also tell them they become partners in what has become the most successful campaign of all times to fight hunger!

 

3.        Contact your local houses of worship and ask them to give this news to their congregations, requesting donations toward it.

 

4.        Use the enclosed letter from Mr. Feinstein in your mailing.  This can increase your response dramatically!  Send it to as many of your donors and prospective donors as you can. If you have to make new envelopes for your mailing, put a line in bold on them reading: ‘Have you ever heard of Alan Shawn Feinstein?’ and reference our $1 million giveaway right at the top of the first piece in your mailing. It should increase your returns substantially.

 

5.        Call your newspapers and radio stations to find out to whom to send copies of our enclosed news release (adding your agency’s name, address, and telephone number to it) and telling them that by publicizing it, they will be helping the needy people in their area. Also send a letter about it to the editor of your daily newspaper.

 

6.        Send this news to your email list urging them to join with us as partners in this #1 grassroots campaign of all times to fight hunger – and to pass the news on to their e-mail list!

 

7.        Contact all the schools near you, asking them to put on a food and or money drive for you toward our $1 million challenge. Value all food items they give you at $1.00 each when reporting what you raised in response to our challenge. Tell your donors that this makes them partners in the greatest grassroots effort ever to fight hunger.

 

8.        Feature our $1 Million Challenge on your website and link to our site (www.feinsteinfoundation.org) so your donors can verify our credibility.

 

Good luck!  And thank you for all you do for those who need you.

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Alan Shawn Feinstein

37 Alhambra Circle

Cranston, RI 02905

 

 

Please use MY money to help

 your neighbors in need!                                       

 

     My name is Alan Shawn Feinstein. For the past 9 years, I have been giving away $1 million each year to anti-hunger agencies throughout the country.

 

     This year, I am doing it again…

 

WHATEVER YOU DONATE TO THIS AGENCY,

I WILL ADD MONEY TO IT. THE MORE

YOU GIVE, THE MORE OF MY $1 MILLION

THEY’LL GET—THANKS TO YOU!

 

     Why am I doing this? Because I believe each of us was put here on earth to do what we can to help those in need. You got this letter because we feel that YOU believe that, too.

 

      This has become the greatest grass roots campaign ever to fight hunger in our country. Your donation makes you a partner in it with me! 

 

      My money started this campaign but it is YOU who will help decide how many needy people in your city or town will be fed this year. I’m only here to give you some support and to remind you of this:  That all that will matter to us someday is what we did while we were here to help those who needed us.

 

                                                       We Are Needed Now!

 

Please give whatever you can - I will gladly add some of my money to yours.  My $1 million will be divided in full proportionately among

the agencies receiving donations toward my offer.

           

     Thank you for sharing my heart, and the hope that—someday—no one will ever go hungry.

Sincerely Yours,

 

 

       Alan Shawn Feinstein