~jcastick

Charitymates II: Manimals for the Animals is the second annual charity event presented by members of the Minimate Multiverse forum. Last year we supported America's Blood Centers and this year we've chosen to support the World Wildlife Fund. 75% of the final price of this auction goes to the WWF with the remaining 25% going back into the running costs of the forum itself. Last year we raised almost $500 and I hope this year we'll be able to do better!

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The members who participated and their custom:
*Aapje - Monkey
*CRISIS_Survivor - Platypus
*drgnrbrn316 - Dragon
*antacost - Wolf
*boyd - Bee
*buttheadsmate - Giraffe
*Fujis - GW Shark
*Graham - Bald Eagle
*jcastick - Penguin
*koi-girl - Orange Snail,Yellow Snail
*Luke314pi - Praying Mantis
*Mattallica - Bat
*MINI-MYTE - Cow
*Nervous - Elephant
*skullbuster - Badger
*thepunisher - Owl
*thepunisher'sbrother - Bear

If your a minimate fan and wish to help out our cause, feel free to bid on some of the customs. Let's try and help The World Wildlife Fund as best we can!

Saturday May 3rd is Free Comic Book Day!

Check out [link] and see if your local comic shop is participating and even if they aren't, go down to your local shop and give them some support!

Well, I have been kicking around the idea of doing some commissions
I'm not entirely sure if anyone is actually drooling over my art enough to want a commissioned piece, but I can have the option out there.

So if you like my style enough, send me off a message and maybe we can work something out.

I will probably update this once I figure out some rules, exceptions and such.

Well the auctions are all done, and we ended up raising a total of $582.74, $437.06 going to the Foundation for America's Blood Centers and $145.68 goes to support for Minimatemultiverse.com

This was a wonderful event, and we are planning on doing another event like this with a different theme and a different charity.

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The Description, Photo and Auctions are organized by [link] member Fujis and the Logo at the top of the pic was created by [link] member Shamrock
My contribution to this project is the Cyclops custom.
Other customs created by these minimatemultiverse members:

MINI-MYTE
Luke314pi
Shamrock
antacost
boyd
punisher
newaddict
Nervous
skullbuster
Fujis
Aapje
Kiyohime
Lobsterman
joka545

Charitymates: Monsters for Blood is a collective charity project created by members of the Minimate Multiverse. Sixteen custom Minimates have been created and will be sold on eBay (hopefully later this month) with 75% of the proceeds being donated to The Foundation for America’s Blood Centers and the remaining 25% going to the operating costs of the forum itself.

Founded in 1962, America’s Blood Centers is North America’s largest network of community-based blood programs. Member blood banks provide half of the United States, and all of Canada’s volunteer donor blood supply. The Foundation works to help blood centers save lives by funding education and operations research to promote a safe and reliable blood supply. Some of their activities include:

* Study the adequacy of and potential threats to the North American blood supply.
* Research blood availability, public perceptions and motivations regarding blood donation.
* Research community health needs related to blood services.
* Promote volunteer blood donation and community support for local blood programs.

This project will help The Foundation for America’s Blood Centers with these activities and promote the idea that donating blood is an important way that we can help our community, and indeed, help to save lives - whether it be to insure there is blood for those undergoing surgery or transfusions, or to help with the blood necessary in an emergency.

The help that the project has received so far from ABC as well as the artists themselves has been wonderful and I hope that support will continue through the auction phase. So to all of you socially conscious Minimate fans and collectors out there: stay tuned for what I hope will be the first of many Charitymates projects!
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