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This is our most recent Pass It On Plate design.


We've got a stack of blank plates to paint up - got any ideas about what you'd like to see on a plate?

PS: This plate is part of our Plate Diary Dollars™ program.

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Plate Diary Dollars for May 2009

I have been posting these on our Plate Diary page, but decided you may be missing some of these updates. I'm so excited about how this has been going that I just have to share our good news about Plate Diary Dollars. Here is May's report. For the previous months, you can check them out in our Plate Diaries page.

In May 2009, where there were 6 Plate Diary comments. Pass It On Plates donated $1 per comment to FeedingAmerica.org

This $6 donation was matched by Kraft Foods and provided 192 bowls of food to hungry people in the US. That's amazing!

Let's keep those plates moving and see how much more we can donate for June.

Remember, there's no charge for you give a Pass It On Plate to anyone, and you will not be asked to pay anything or donate any money.

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"Dinner's on me"

In our Plate Diary Dollars ™ program, we state that we contribute 2% of the price of the plate to FeedingAmerica.org, for every valid Plate Diary comment, up to 10%.

As you probably know, we extend this program to anything we sell with a tracking number on it. Take a look at our Original Pass It On Plate, which you can pick up for just $10 from our Etsy shop.

In this case, $10 x 2% = $.20 contributed per Plate Diary comment. We tally up all Plate Diary comments and make a charitable contribution at the end of every month. Yes, the money comes from us. All you need to do is make a valid Plate Diary comment* when you pass the plate to a friend

When this Original Pass It On Plate has a total of 5 Plate Diary comments, $1.00 has been contributed, which provides 32 bowls of food.

Let's do the math. If $1 is contributed for 5 Plate Diary comments, then 32 bowls divided by 5 comments is 6.4 bowls of food per Plate Diary comment.

Your simple act of passing the plate along basically buys dinner for an entire American family!

So, are you hanging on to a Pass It On Plate?
Why?

Load it up and give it to a friend today - and be sure to let them know that you're buying dinner.




* A valid Plate Diary comment is one pertaining to passing the plate on to another person, not something along the lines of "Visit my site," or "Thank you for the plate" (that's nice but doesn't show the plate is moving along). Multiple Plate Diary comments by the same person in the same time frame are also not valid. The bottom line is we need to see that the plate is moving from person to person.

How to feed up to 160 people

I'd like to take a minute today to clarify how the simple act of passing along a Pass It On Plate helps so many people across the US.

In our Plate Diary Dollars ™ program, we state that we pay up to $1.00 for every Plate Diary comment.

So exactly what does "up to $1.00" mean?

Pass It On Plates contributes 2% of the price of the plate to FeedingAmerica.org, for every valid* Plate Diary comment, up to 10%.

This means that for a $50 Complete Pass It On Plate, we contribute 2%, or $1.00, per plate diary comment. When this particular plate has 5 Plate Diary comments, Pass It On Plates will have contributed a total of 10% of that $50, or $5.

$50 x 2% = $1
This one plate, with 5 Plate Diary comments, helps to provide 160 bowls of food to hungry Americans.

The reason we say "up to" $1.00 is because some of our Complete Pass It On Plates are priced at $40.
This means $40 x 2% = $.80 per Plate Diary comment.

We also extend this program to anything we sell with a tracking number on it, so even a basic $10 Original Pass It On Plate helps to feed hungry Americans.

Every plate helps to feed hungry people as it passes from person to person.



* A valid Plate Diary comment is one pertaining to passing the plate on to another person, not something along the lines of "Visit my site," or "Thank you for the plate" (that's nice but doesn't show the plate is moving along). Multiple Plate Diary comments by the same person in the same time frame are also not valid. The bottom line is we need to see that the plate is moving from person to person.

Rrrowf! is part of Plate It Forward - whoo hoo!

Rrrowf! with Turquiose Tie In & Bone Cookie Cutter, originally uploaded by passitonplates.

We still have a few of these left, and they are now part of our Plate It Forward TM program and they qualify for Plate Diary Dollars TM.

Here's the deal:

Plate It Forward TM
When you buy an Original Pass It On Plate with this PlateWrap, we donate 100% of the profits to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter in Newport, Oregon. The donation will be made in your name, and you can use this as a charitable contribution at tax time. We'll send you the related paperwork with your order.

Plate Diary Dollars TM
Every time the plate # associated with this plate gets another qualified entry in the online Plate Diary, we'll donate a dollar to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter in Newport, Oregon. At this time, we're capping this at $5, but that's 5 people who are helping to support this worthy cause by passing along this Pass It On Plate.

And no, other than the price to purchase this Pass It On Plate, this does not cost you or your friends anything extra to pass it on. All the donation funds come from Pam Hawk dba Pass It On Plates.

For more information about the Lincoln County Animal Shelter, please visit: http://www.lincolncountysheriff.net/animal/shelter.html

Don't forget!

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Plate Diary Dollars filled 160 bowls of food!

Our Plate Diary Dollars have been calculated for December 2008. In our first month, there were 5 Plate Diary comments, and Pass It On Plates donated $1 per comment to FeedingAmerica.org

This $5 donation, while small, was matched by Kraft Foods and provided 160 bowls of food to hungry people in the US. That's amazing!

Let's keep those plates moving and see how much more we can donate for January.

Remember, there's no charge for you give a Pass It On Plate to anyone, and you will not be asked to pay anything or donate any money.





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MeeeOwww is part of Plate It Forward!

MeeeOwww with Pink Tie In & Fishy Cookie Cutter, originally uploaded by passitonplates.

We still have a few of these left, and they are now part of our Plate It Forward TM program and they qualify for Plate Diary Dollars TM.

Here's the deal:

Plate It Forward TM
When you buy an Original Pass It On Plate with this PlateWrap, we donate 100% of the profits to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter in Newport, Oregon. The donation will be made in your name, and you can use this as a charitable contribution at tax time. We'll send you the related paperwork with your order.

Plate Diary Dollars TM
Every time the plate # associated with this plate gets another qualified entry in the online Plate Diary, we'll donate a dollar to the Lincoln County Animal Shelter in Newport, Oregon. At this time, we're capping this at $5, but that's 5 people who are helping to support this worthy cause by passing along this Pass It On Plate.

And no, other than the price to purchase this Pass It On Plate, this does not cost you or your friends anything extra to pass it on. All the donation funds come from Pam Hawk dba Pass It On Plates.

For more information about the Lincoln County Animal Shelter, please visit: http://www.lincolncountysheriff.net/animal/shelter.html

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Plate Diary Dollars ™

Last week I announced our exciting Plate It Forward™ program. This new program designates certain Pass It On Plates to raise money and awareness for a specific non-profit organization.

This week we'd like to announce our complimentary program:
Plate Diary Dollars ™.

Every plate not already designated to raise money for a specific cause in the Plate It Forward ™ program will still help hundreds and thousands (and hopefully millions) of hungry people across the USA.

When every plate travels from person to person, we'll donate a percentage of our profits to the Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest) "Fill A Bowl, Feed America" program. Feed America has partnered with Kraft, who matches all donations up to $200,000. Every dollar donated will fill 32 bowls of food for hungry people.

Just think - every time you pass along your Pass It On Plate, you're providing
32 bowls of food
to help feed our nation's hungry.
Isn't that awesome?

How does Plate Diary Dollars ™ work?

• We keep track of this based on Plate Diary comments at http://passitonplates.blogspot.com/.
• Each new valid* Plate Diary comment = up to $1.00
• Money will be sent to FeedingAmerica.org once a month
• Each month we'll announce how much money we donated and how many bowls of food we filled, with a link to their site.
• You will not be asked to donate anything towards this program; this is just something we want to do.
• It's free to make a Plate Diary comment.
• Every plate not specifically designated to support a named charity under our Plate It Forward program is included in this program; even a Pass It On Plate purchased two years ago is included.
• While we will not retroactively look through the Plate Diaries and contribute based on older Plate Diary comments, every valid Plate Diary comment made on or after December 1, 2008 generates up to $1.00 toward Plate Diary Dollars ™.
  
• We reserve the right to change or modify the Plate Diary Dollars ™ program at any time without prior notice.
• Here are more details on the Feeding America Fill-A-Bowl program.
• What does "up to $1.00" mean, exactly? Pass It On Plates contributes 2% of the price of the plate to FeedingAmerica.org, for every qualifying Plate Diary comment, up to 10%. This means that for a $50 Complete Pass It On Plate, we contribute 2%, or $1.00, per plate diary comment. When this particular plate has 5 Plate Diary comments, Pass It On Plates will have contributed a total of 10% of that $50, or $5. This one plate, with 5 Plate Diary comments, will help to provide 160 bowls of food to hungry Americans.
  

* A valid Plate Diary comment is one pertaining to passing the plate on to another person, not something along the lines of "Visit my site," or "Thank you for the plate" (that's nice but doesn't show the plate is moving along). Multiple Plate Diary comments by the same person in the same time frame are also not valid. The bottom line is we need to see that the plate is moving from person to person.

How did we decide to donate to FeedingAmerica.org?
There are so many deserving charities out there, it was hard to choose.

• First, feeding the hungry was the most logical cause to support with our product - a plate.
• It is estimated that there are 9 million hungry children, 3 million hungry seniors, as well as the working poor, low income families, rural hungry, and others, totaling over 36 million hungry Americans (in 2007.) With today's economic situation, the number is expected to grow.
  Source: http://feedingamerica.org/faces-of-hunger/hunger-101.aspx
• Because we have Pass It On Plates all across the USA, it didn't make sense to focus on just our local area with Plate Diary Dollars ™. Our Plate It Forward program with local groups - where the sale of every plate provides an instant chunk of cash to the organization with $1 donated every time those plates travel. (This winter we will start Plate It Forward locally and expand to local charities in other areas. Perhaps you will see Plate It Forward in your area in the near future?)
• We visited CharityNavigator.org to research and locate the most appropriate non-profit organization for our $1 program. Charity Navigator is a respected site that rates non-profit organizations based on financial efficiency, and other factors.
• FeedingAmerica.org is a four star charity, the highest ranking given by Charity Navigator, and serves food banks across the entire USA.

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