Here's another update. For those of you who have offered donations, thank you. The IRS thanks you too, your donation will be tax deductible, more info to follow on that in the future.
here's the update:
PROJECT IRAQI VETERAN PROJECT:
Greetings to everyone who has joined with the First Generation Camaro of Arizona along with the Cactus GTO Club as we work on our "Thank You" project for Corporal Jared Foster.
My apologies for not sending even more updates, but my Email service has been less than accomodating in allowing me to send Emails to large numbers of people.
However, I will make this update brief and to the point:
NEXT WORK DAY
OUR NEXT WORK DAY IS THIS SATURDAY, DEC. 8TH FROM 2:00PM TILL ??? Location will be at John Bauler's house again. If you need directions, call John or myself. Numbers at bottom of this Email. Join us for 5 minutes or 5-hours, whatever you can spare. Our last work day was incredible and fun to boot.
FINANCIAL DONATIONS
To date, we have recieved approximatley $2455 in financial donations. Our efforts are posted on TEAM CAMARO, Thanks to the efforts of Jack Riley and the staff at TEAM CAMARO. Much interest has been generated due to this posting. See attached link below, or log in to TEAM CAMARO and go to their forums section. Look for the camo-colored link.
http://www.camaros.net/veteran
RECARO SEATS !!!!
Jack Riley, working so dilegently behind the scenes, has scored us a set of RECARO, small grain, black vynil custom seats---donated by RECARO themselves !!!!! This was exactly what we needed from our "Wish List". In addition, Jack is working on a set of custom seat belts.
WHEELS AND TIRES
Doug Meyers has put me in touch with a manager at a local Discount Tire, who will in turn work the tire and/or rim angle for us. Moe Ferrat is a local manager who understood completely what we were doing and will move forward pending a letter from me. Moe will work the BFGoodrich folks for us. As of yet, we are unsure of what the donation will be.
NON-PROFIT STATUS
We are now a considered a "Non-Profit Entity" in the eyes of the IRS. Thru some research, I discovered that we indeed did file for our Employee Identification Number back in 2002 and therefore all we need to do for each donor is provide them with a letter on our club letter-head, noting their donation. This will allow each donor to recieve tax credit for their 2007 filings !!!!! These statements will be mailed as soon as we can.
CURRENT PARTS STATUS
Many used and gently used parts have been donated thus far. Thanks to each of you that have done so. It really helps. Attached is our current spread-sheet of what we have and what we still need. We will use the best of the parts and return the others to the donators. Much of the financial donations have already been put to good use. We have reimbursed John Bauler for several of the purchases he has made for parts, including those he has taken out of his personal inventory. Tracking of this is viewable via the attached spread-sheet.
AROUND THE COUNTRY DONATIONS
We are getting donations and calls from all parts of the country---NJ, TX, IL, MA, CA, FL, AL, WA, British Columbia !!!! Many of you are working behind the scenes to spread the word, while others are here working the project itself. Our combined efforts are paying off in a very incredible way. Thanks to those of you that have donated your money time and efforts. We'll keep you posted as the project for Corporal Foster progresses. We will also be posting more details this weekend at TEAM CAMARO in the Bench Racing Forum.
Thanks again on behalf of Corporal Jared Foster and First Generation Camaros of Arizona and the Cactus GTO club.
LANCE BAKER 480-229-5691 cell
JOHN BAULER 480-632-6214 home / business=============