The deadlift is about leverage.
Femur length, posterior chain power, knee/hip angles…these can all be optimized to move more weight.
So, too, is our altruism.
Our collective knowledge, empathy, and desire to make people better is a powerful force. They can be optimized, just like the tilt of your pelvis.
The unofficial slogan of box programs is, “Make people better.” On the sickness-wellness-fitness continuum highlighted in CrossFit Journal, our goal is to pursue the right: to move people toward fitness, no matter where they start.
Some have to get to Wellness first. They need our help.
There are many great fundraising initiatives out there. Hope for Warriors and Barbells for Boobs have grown into powerful forces, and local events generate help for animal shelters, autism, homelessness…all very worthy causes. Most gyms don’t need to be convinced to host fundraisers, but they now need help deciding WHICH to support.
We choose to get behind Hope. Here’s why:
- Leverage. The collective power of the broader community means we can do more good in one place.
- Efficiency. The CrossFit Kids Foundation, through which donations travel, has no employees. It has no expenses; everything is covered by HQ. That’s a 100% flow-through rate. Other charities have unavoidable expenses: promotion, staffing, travel. HQ covers ALL of these. If it costs CrossFit, Inc. thirty cents to generate a dollar in fundraising, they pay the thirty cents.
- Knowledge. HQ isn’t afraid to send a team of experts around to different hospitals to find the best. They’re not afraid to build a massive website, full of motivational tools like a worldwide leaderboard, at their own expense, and pay people to make it run.
- Scalability. Members can donate and do a workout…or they can recruit their friends, who can sponsor them. This is how we’ll reach our goal of paying for the care of children.
- Worthiness. In each case, CrossFit HQ supports an organization that makes a DIFFERENCE. Visit St. Jude, and you’ll see a hospital where kids and their families can live for FREE during treatment; where drugs are custom-made onsite; where they grow their own vegetables. St. Jude has lead the charge on leukemia treatment in treatment worldwide, taking the cure rate from 4% to 94% over the last sixty years.
321Go is a supporter of Hope For Cures.
Working up to the Hope WOD on July 6, 2013, 321GoProject is doing our own fundraiser, Help for Hope. You make a donation of $50 and we give you an hour of our time, either for a website audit or a phone call with Chris Cooper, discussing how to “fix your biggest problem in your box”. 100% of the money collected will be donated to CrossFit for Hope. Fill out the form below if you are interested in participating with us.
If your box needs help organizing a fundraiser, check out some ideas below. We will continue to add to them as you share your ideas with us.
- Of course, make the Hope WOD on July 6 a big event in your box
- A loose change jar
- A talent show