If Collingswood Facebook Reaches 500 Fans, $500 Goes to Charity

Help donate $500 to a local charity—simply by becoming a friend of Collingswood Borough on Facebook.

The borough unveiled its new Facebook last month, and has since come up with a way to use social media as a fundraiser for charity. 

As soon as Collingswood Borough reaches 500 friends on Facebook, the borough will donate $500 to one of three charities—Susan G. Komen Philadelphia, St. Baldrick's Day or Collingswood Community Theatre. 

The winning charity will be chosen by...you! Collingswood's Facebook friends will pick which organization gets the $500.

The borough is encouraging readers to spread the word by telling others to "like" the Collingswood Borough Facebook page, and cast your vote for the charity who should receive funds.

The charity who receives the most votes on Collingswood's Facebook Page will be the charity who wins $500.

So "like" Collingswood Borough on Facebook, and don't forget to post your vote and explain which of the three charities should win.

To vote for your favorite charity, go to Collingswood's Facebook page, and scroll down until you locate the borough's "500 Fans/$500 For Charity" post. This is the post users should comment under, by posting the name of the charity that should win. Do not post your votes as a new, unrelated comment—all votes must be cast in response to the borough's "500 Fans/$500 For Charity" post.

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure Philadelphia—Susan G. Komen is an organization dedicated to creating a world without breast cancer. This year's Komen Philadelphia Race For The Cure will be held Sunday, May 8, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art—located at 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in Philadelphia. The race, and the organization as a whole, are dedicated to innovation. The group's website said they'll achieve their goal by, "stopping at nothing and leaving no one behind until everyone shares not just he vision—but the reality of life without breast cancer."

• St. Baldrick's Day—This annual event is held all over the world, with a fundraiser in Collingswood included in the worldwide festivities each year. The Collingswood effort shares the organization's effort—as a pediatric cancer research fundraiser. This year's Collingswood St. Baldrick's Day will be held Sunday, March 20, in the ballroom of the Scottish Rite Auditorium—located at 315 White Horse Pike in Collingswood. The Irish-themed event includes live music, food, drinks and dancing—and live head-shaving, which many people take part in as a tribute of solidarity for the children who typically lose their hair during cancer treatments. Sponsored by Collingswood Firefighters For A Kid's Cure—a group of borough firefighters and supporters who raised over six figures for the foundation in previous years—the borough's seventh-annual event will donate funds to cancer research in an effort to improve the quality of life for cancer survivors and patients.

• Collingswood Community Theatre—The borough's local theater troupe has been performing classic Broadway musicals since 2002. Collingswood Community Theatre (CCT) performs at the Scottish Rite Auditorium—located at 315 White Horse Pike in Collingswood. Locals and visitors alike have been charmed and impressed with the theatre's beautiful sets and talented casts and crews since CCT's inception. But currently, the theater has been struggling to make ends meet in providing the same quality of production as they have in the past. CCT's most recent push, the Ten Lousy Bucks campaign, has been asking supporters to donate $10 each. The campaign is aimed at getting 300 people to donate $10 each—a goal whose total of $3,000 would make CCT's 2011 productions possible. Collingswood's local theater has been a source of pride for the community, and a source of top-notch entertainment for visitors, for the past nine years. And theater members hope to keep that presence alive for years to come.