Want to help some kids do better in school? Want to introduce some boys and girls to the joy and magic of soccer?
Well, we’ve made it easy for you. On Friday night, Jeld-Wen is teaming with the Timbers Army to raise friends and funds for AC Portland. Launched this spring, AC Portland is a supplementary educational program focused on kids and neighborhoods that need a boost. Aimed at elementary-school students, the AC Portland program mixes recreational soccer with literacy education, mentoring and nutritional guidance.
How can you help? All you have to do is lift one finger.
When you arrive at the Jeld-Wen Field Friday night, pull out your Smartphone – don’t worry, John Spencer would approve – and open up Facebook. Look on the right of the menu bar for the “Places” function. Click on that, scroll down, and click again on the “Jeld-Wen Field” bar.
For every click on that bar Friday night, Jeld-Wen will donate a dollar to AC Portland.
The curriculum comes from America SCORES; the funding is coming from a wide range of Portland-based businesses and leaders. The inspiration comes from the Timbers Army – its love of soccer, its passion for Portland, and its unmatched drive to make Portland “Soccer City USA” in every way possible.
I must say, while I appreciate JELD-WEN donating per fan that attends, insisting that people check in on Facebook is ELL-AY-EM-EE. I mean, what, 30-40 people check in each match? Maybe 200-300 more will this time? Compared to the 19,000+ that will actually be there? That *REALLY* sucks. Especially when the JELD-WEN rep said at the AC Portland kick-off that he was expecting his donation to be high.
AC Portland was expecting a check in the thousands to tens-of-thousands range, not low hundreds. I’m tempted to create a few dozen fake Facebook accounts just to check in with…
Ed: Thanks for your concern. Jeld-Wen did a similar promotion at a match earlier this year, and with less fanfare (and fan base) than we have, they drew something like 2,000 hits. But yeah … Not everyone has a smart phone, and not everyone’s on TA.org. To compensate, we’ll have a crew at the game handing out flyers as a reminder.
What about those of us with stupidphones?
It might be a small amount, but there are some of us out here in the world that do not have smarty phones. ELL-AY-EM-EE.
Do you have to have an account or just click? Do it over and over.
Heck maybe it just needs to be tonight anywhere. Spread the word, outside the stadium.
I don’t know if it will work, might. I’m not as smart as the phone.
How many ended up checking in?