I'm happy to say that my company raised $4k from the employees, which was matched 2:1 by the company, so $12k in total
Pretty good considering we only have about 40 employees. There were also donations of blankets, food, petfood and other items
I also sent out an e-mail to all my close friends soliciting pledges, and recieved 8 donations. The funny thing was, 7 of them were from women. The friends I e-mailed are split 50/50 between men and women.
Is this a sign that women are more empathetic with these sorts of things? Or maybe the guys were better organised and had already made their own independant donations, or prefer to be self-reliant when making donations??
I just thought it was curious