By Bill
The advertising and the donation button are no cost, little effort ways to lower the cost of participation. I doubt these efforts will raise much money themselves but I hope it gets us thinking about ways to lower the cost of participation or at least buy everyone a glass of wine.
I'll update this page and report the fruits of our efforts - I'll post the monthly advertising reports and if any donations come in I'll report those here (there doesn't seem to be a way to accept anonymous donations but I"m looking into it, at this point I can withhold donors names by request but I'll still know who the donor is), I will also report the benefits we are receiving through the booking process and how those benefits are being used.
For instance we expect a certain amount of money back from Carnival for every eight cabins booked - it's in the range of $300 to $500 depending on which cabins. We could rebate one eighth to each cabin or we could split this rebate money among dialyzor cabins.
For instance 24 cabins have dialyzors and 24 cabins are held by friends and family. If the cabin mix means that on average Carnival kicks back $400 per eight cabins then either each cabin with a dialyzor could get $100 back. I think the friends and family still get a good price on the cruise, it would just be that people on dialysis would get a dialyzor's discount.
Leave comments if you have any thoughts on the fundraising effort. Are the ads acceptable? Are they worth the few dollars they'll bring in? What else could we do? Any ideas for a tshirt?
My husband just started dialysis and so we are wondering how this take a cruise and continue dialysis situation works. What are special costs?
Posted by: L. F. Hilliard | 06/15/2009 at 05:32 PM