01/26/2020
Hello everyone, my name is Ben Wilson and I am the creator of this page, WSU > UW. I was born and raised in Pullman and lived there from birth until I graduated high school. I started this page as a kid in middle school just fooling around on Facebook, not really thinking anything significant would result. I was wrong. WSU > UW went viral, amassing 3,000+ members only a week after conception. Once I realized that I had struck a nerve with the online WSU community, I set out to continue to grow this page and create quality content. I firmly believe that when I was operating this page at full potential, WSU > UW was the best WSU fan-operated page around. At our peak, we were 12,000+ Coug fans strong! Ah, the good ole days! After graduating high school, I moved up to Spokane and started my adult life. WSU > UW became much more difficult to run once I started transitioning to being a busy adult with many new tasks and responsibilities. Running this page plummeted to the bottom of my priority list and from there the page just kind of died out. I’m sorry. I hope you can find it within yourself to forgive me?
I am here today because I need your help! I have been a witness to the strength, power, and generosity of the WSU community for many years. I know that I can call on you, my brothers and sisters, and you won’t let me down!
This coming summer I am participating in something called the Ulman 4K for Cancer put on by the Ulman Foundation. For 7 weeks, me and a group of ~25 other young adults from around the country will be on a team. We will be running relay style from Baltimore, Maryland to San Francisco, California. Each person participating has to fundraise a minimum of $4500 dollars. The money goes to the Ulman Foundation, whose mission is to assist young adults battling cancer with their living expenses and provide places for them to stay.
Currently I have raised $1500 of my $4500 minimum. Together, I am hoping we can raise the other $3,000! How are we going to do that you ask? Well, I have incentives.
First off, I am opening the vault! A limited number of WSU > UW wristbands are still in my possession! For every $10 worth of donations, I will mail you a wristband! For example, if you donate $30, I will send you 3 WSU > UW wristbands! I have exactly 40 of these bad boys left! Get them while you can!
Secondly, here are other incentives I’ve come up with for fundraising milestone totals:
$100 – Make a late, but heartfelt, Klay Thompson appreciation post while simultaneously calling him out for a game of one-on-one to be played when I finish the relay in San Francisco
$500 – Bring back WSU > UW from the dead and post at minimum once a week
$1000 – Give away a $100 Cougar Country Drive In (pullman, washington) gift card to someone who donated any amount of money
$1500 – Only bring and wear WSU branded clothing for the entirety of the relay
$1600 – Challenge Gardner Minshew to run with me through Mississippi
$2000 – Give away another $100 Cougar Country gift card
$2500 – The WSU > UW community will have the power to brainstorm and vote for an activity for me to do (obviously within reason, but the possibilities are endless!)
$3000 – Get a WSU logo tattoo (would be my first tattoo ever)
Thank you all so much for the support over the years! Any and all donations are appreciated!
DONATE HERE: https://give.ulmanfoundation.org/4k-2020/BenWilson
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