Everything is Connected

January’s moti­va­tional shirt is a reminder that every­thing we do in the world, through­out each day, is con­nected to every­thing else. Doing good cre­ates more good.

The back reads: every­thing is con­nected and fea­tures each of the causes we have sup­ported since March 2010:

• Pied­mont Park Conservancy
• Open Hand
• Camp Twin Lakes
• Every­body Wins
• Adopt a Golden Atlanta
• PATH Foun­da­tion
• Kate’s Club
• Get Grounded Foundation

To date, we’ve been able to donate $46,000 to these won­der­ful orga­ni­za­tions — thanks to you and your hard work!

Please post your results and improve­ments from today’s PT test — we want to hear your suc­cess stories!

See you next month — well, really later this month — on Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 31st.

Spotlight on Our Partner: AGA

As you all know by now, Adopt a Golden Atlanta is our cause for the first quar­ter of 2011. This is our last month work­ing with AGA and we want to remind you to check them out if you are look­ing for a new fam­ily mem­ber, know of a dog that needs a home, or just love dogs and want to help.

Adopt a Golden Atlanta is a vol­un­teer, non­profit orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to find­ing warm, lov­ing per­ma­nent homes for Golden Retriev­ers in order to pre­vent them from becom­ing strays or adding to the shel­ter overpopulation.

Insert adorable dog video here to pull at the heartstrings:

We hope you had fun work­ing on your Buns N’ Guns this morn­ing. Let us know how you’re doing by click­ing the “Com­ments” link above!

Seeing is Believing

For the record, you all may SEE bet­ter in the park and in the dark, but you LOOK fab­u­lous any­where and in any light­ing situation!

This Feb­ru­ary crew brought the vision and focus to help us raise another $2,000, ben­e­fit­ting Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy and Adopt a Golden Atlanta. That’s an all-time total of $24,000!

Keep believ­ing…
See you Tues­day, March 1st!

Stay strong,
BC4C

What were your goals for the month? Did you meet them? Leave a com­ment on this post by click­ing the “Com­ments” link above.

Spotlight on Our Partner: Adopt a Golden Atlanta

Editor’s note: Thanks to the hearty crew that joined us on the icy tun­dra this morn­ing (for­merly known as the Noguchi Play­ground). Andrew led our group of 11 in a frozen ver­sion of Twelve, but some­how 12 became 20… Stay tuned for pho­tos to be posted later today!

Adopt a Golden Atlanta is a vol­un­teer, non­profit orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to find­ing warm, lov­ing per­ma­nent homes for Golden Retriev­ers in order to pre­vent them from becom­ing strays or adding to the shel­ter overpopulation.

Golden Retriev­ers, regard­less of med­ical needs or age, will receive com­pre­hen­sive eval­u­a­tion, spay/neutering ser­vices, vet­eri­nary care, behav­ioral train­ing if required, and safe pas­sage into a per­ma­nent lov­ing home. In addi­tion to pro­vid­ing those ser­vices, Adopt a Golden Atlanta is intent on edu­cat­ing and assist­ing the met­ro­pol­i­tan Atlanta gen­eral pub­lic, and dog own­ers specif­i­cally, regard­ing issues such as respon­si­ble pet own­er­ship, spay/neutering, obe­di­ence train­ing, and veterinary/specialists referrals.

BC4Cers don’t just talk the talk — they also walk the walk! AGA Atlanta is lucky enough to have the sup­port and ser­vices of four of our most com­mit­ted par­tic­i­pants: Hal­lie and Patrick Dil­lon and Nicole and Jonathan Cone. Hal­lie and Nicole are both vol­un­teer Adop­tion Coor­di­na­tors. They are respon­si­ble for find­ing lov­ing homes for these adorable gold­ens. Way to go, ladies!

And The Results Are In…

Thank you to all that par­tic­i­pated in our poll to decide next year’s char­ity partners.

In 2011, BC4C will con­tinue to sup­port the Pied­mont Park Con­ser­vancy with 50% of our pro­ceeds. Addi­tion­ally, we will sup­port each of the fol­low­ing causes for one quar­ter (three months) with the remain­ing 50% of our proceeds.

And the win­ners are… drum­roll please…

1. Adopt a Golden Atlanta — with 35.5% of the vote (639 votes)
2. PATH Foun­da­tion — with 27% of the vote (486 votes)
3. Kate’s Club — with 18.72% of the vote (337 votes)
4. Get Grounded Foun­da­tion — with 10.67% of the vote (192 votes)

Thank you to the 1,800 peo­ple that vis­ited our site to vote! We look for­ward to see­ing each of you in the park next year!