The End of the A.A.A. Tsunami Relief Effort

Shortly after the Tsunami and Earthquake struck Japan the A.A.A. Podcast launched into action.  We started what we called the A.A.A. Relief Effort to help our friends in Japan who needed it most.  Now, barely three weeks later our efforts have reached their conclusion.

We set our initial goal at $500.00, and were shocked when you all had given us enough donations of every amount from $0.44 to $100.00 to reach this goal in barely a week.  Raising the goal to $1,000.00 we raised the stakes: donating original work from our store and saying that if we reached this lofty goal we would have a cross-dressing podcast episode.  You all remained true to your end of the deal and put in enough money to raise the final amount to:

$1,018.13

That’s an astonishing amount! While there is little to find to be truly celebrated amidst this tragedy this is one small victory which everyone should feel proud for.  So to everyone who donated, contributed, tuned in, and cheered us on thank you.  This is your victory in the end, not ours.

We had placed a Poll up on our top page and in other places to choose the charity which we would donate to.  A total of 57 people voted and The Red Cross won with a whopping 38 votes!  That’s 67% of the votes, so a definite majority.

In keeping true to our word on 10:55 PM EST on 4/2/2011 we donated the full amount of $1,018.13 (we actually donated $1,019.00 because you couldn’t donate cents so we rounded up) to the American Red Cross via Paypal:

So once again, thank you all, if you still have money to donate I encourage you to do it here:

http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000&s_subsrc=RCO_BigRedButton

Or through PayPal’s website:

https://www.paypal-donations.com/pp-charity/web.us/campaign.jsp?cid=-12

Stand Strong Japan, you have the love of the anime community!  (One final Reminder, Mitsugi will be dressing like a girl on the live episode on broadcast on UStream at 8:00pm EST on Sunday the 3rd of April.