The crayon drive
Kansas City, where Positive Networks is headquartered, is home to one of the finest children’s hospitals in the country, The Children’s Mercy Hospital. Children’s Mercy is also a longtime customer, so when it came time to do our last charity drive, we naturally thought of them. We asked them what sorts of things they needed, and one thing that came up was the need for boxes of crayons.
We set a two-week time limit for the collection of crayons and of colored pictures (which were also requested) and divided the company up into teams to see who could collect the most crayons. Well, we’re a pretty competitive bunch when we get rolling, and over the course of the two weeks, we managed to collect about 70,000 crayons - the most Children’s Mercy has ever gotten in a single crayon donation.
The photo says it all - that’s a lot of crayons! Now I’m ready to get them delivered to the hospital. I never much liked the smell of crayons as a kid, and you can imagine the difference with having 70,000 of them in one spot. besides, that table they’re piled on is the ping-pong table! It’s clearly a must to get that back into service as soon as possible.
September 20th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Loads for me; are you having trouble with it?
September 20th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Well, I stand corrected - It worked fine in Sarari and IE, but Firefox didn’t display the pic at all. The HTML looked fine, but then again, I wrote it, so I *would* think that.
At any rate, it’s fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:09 am
Awesome photo, great website
September 21st, 2006 at 12:30 pm
That’s a good lookin’ bunch;)
September 21st, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Nice picture out there, well arranged. I know some of the guys who have responded to the blog are playing naughty.
October 1st, 2006 at 9:23 pm
[…] Wow, the crayon drive we did made the Kansas City Star. Cool! […]
October 4th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
[…] It turns out that our crayon drive made enough of an impact that we’re getting Kansas City TV coverage for it! If you are in the Kansas City area today, tune in for the NBC 5:00 news to see various Positive Networks employees making a gigantic crayon delivery. […]
October 4th, 2006 at 9:37 pm
neato, i like your blog. good job with the crayons, howd you get them all?
October 4th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
It was an all-company effort. A couple of developers cleaned out every wal-mart in the area, and the Operations guys hit all of the dollar stores. It was quite a competition for a couple of weeks!