This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the randomly chosen winner: comment #24 from Hannah B.!
American Girl is giving you a chance to make a big difference in the lives of children through their Shine On Now program, which I first told you about last week. Their goal is to donate $1 million dollars to four childrens’ charities and in order to make that happen, one million virtual stars need to be donated to the program. Here’s how it works:
Go to the Shine On Now website and look for the Donate Your Star! box. Type in the name of your child and a parent email address and click the arrow. This box will pop up:
Click on the star, drag it into the outline, and you’ve donated one star. For every star, your daughter gets one entry in a drawing to win an American Girl Doll, they are giving away one every day until July 31st. You can donate up to 100 stars a day so that’s 100 chances to win!
Not only did American Girl donate 1000 stars in my name to the program (which will become $1000 in donations to charity IF they reach 1 Million stars donated!), they are also giving me the opportunity to give a lucky Table for Five reader their own American Girl Doll!
The winner will be asked to fill out a form with their mailing info as well as their choice of doll from a wide variety of options such as skin tone, hair color and style, and eye color. The winner will be chosen at random using the “And the Winner Is” plugin and contacted by email. I will also edit this post to announce the winner’s name as soon as I’ve verified their main entry and received a reply.
WIN IT: To enter, leave a comment on this post telling me about a special girl in your family or community who you think deserves to win this American Girl Doll, AND write about why she deserves this doll — share with us what kinds of activities she is involved in, how she helps others, etc….. This entry must be completed before any bonus entries will count.
EDITED TO ADD: I apologize for not being more clear about the required entry. What you need to do is leave a comment telling me who you will give the doll to if you win, and whether she does anything to help her community, like collecting canned food for the food bank or giving unwanted toys and clothes to Goodwill. If the girl you are entering for doesn’t do any of those things, that’s okay, you can still enter!
HOW THE WINNER IS CHOSEN: I use a plugin called “And the Winner Is” that searches through the comments and pulls one at random. If it’s a bonus entry, I verify that the commenter also left the required main entry. If they did, I close the comments and notify the winner.
Open to U.S. mailing addresses only, entries must be received by July 31st 2010 at 11:59 pm ET.
Bonus Entries: Once you’ve posted your main entry, earn additional entries for each of the following that you do or have done. These are all worth ONE ENTRY-
- Post the link to this giveaway on any “contest linky” making sure to include the end date of 7/31. Leave the URL of the site where you linked it up.
- Tweet about the giveaway: Enter to win an American Girl Doll from @Table4Five & #shineonnow! Enter by 7/31/10 at 11:59 pm ET.http://wp.me/p9SRW-1FN
- Become a fan of Shine On Now on Facebook and post this message on their wall: I donated a star to Shine On Now and entered the giveaway on Table4Five.net!
For FIVE Bonus Entries: Blog about this giveaway and the Shine On Now program. Please link Shine On Now to http://www.ShineOnNow.com/ , and link Table for Five to http://table4five.net, and include that both the program and the giveaway end on July 31st. Leave the URL to your post in your comment.
Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!
disclosure: as an American Girl Shine On Now Parent Partner, I received a badge to post, information about the program, and will receive an American Girl Doll as a thank-you for helping spread the word about Shine On Now.
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Why do I think my daughter would be worthy of an American Girl doll?
She does her best to strive to be the kind of girl American Girl represents.
I don’t know where she came by it, but she is naturally giving. She shares with every child she meets. Is the kind of girl who asks if she can give her pennies for the horse ride away to other kids in the store looking longingly at it. The kind who wants to help people, no matter who they are.
She works with her Daisy troop (next year Brownies!) and goes out of her way to make kids feel included in anything she is doing.
She’s a good kid.
So I’m putting it out there for her.