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The Great Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Project Underway
Birthdays are a celebration of life, and to mark the anniversary of their favorite actor’s special day fans of Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey’s Anatomy, Supernatural, Watchmen) are showing their “dogged” devotion by donating to a canine cause. In the following interview the founder of the 3rd annual Great Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Project invites the actor’s admirers to join the party by making a pledge which will benefit The Brittany Foundation, a no-kill non-profit in Agua Dulce, California which provides a safe sanctuary for dogs as they wait to win a starring role in a forever home.
How did you come up with the idea of a Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Project fundraiser to benefit The Brittany Foundation?
DonateJDM.org came from the affection Jeff’s fans have for him as both an actor and a man. Because all those involved behind the scenes are active members of Jeff’s fan community, it was an ideal first-hand perspective to see how many JDM fans struggle year after year to come up with just the right birthday gift for him. That’s where the idea of DonateJDM.org was born. What sort of gift would both express affection for him and might be something he’d genuinely enjoy? The obvious answer was dogs. You can’t know anything about Jeff without knowing how much he loves dogs. All dogs in general, and his dogs in specific.
So that first year, our intention was simply to create a space where any JDM fan looking to wish Jeff a happy birthday could go and save a dog or ten in his name. And on his birthday, he’d get his gift from all those fans in the form of a collective check for the total amount raised by fans coming together to celebrate him in a way we hoped he’d love as much as we love him.
And he did! Loved it so much, in fact, that while the first year was a big surprise, the subsequent years he’s thrown his support behind it by making it clear how much this gift really does mean to him.
Last year Donate JDM raised more than $7,000 for The Brittany Foundation. How will you be raising funds this year to meet your goal, and how long will the fundraiser last?
READ MORE at the link above!!!!
The Great Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Project Underway
Birthdays are a celebration of life, and to mark the anniversary of their favorite actor’s special day fans of Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey’s Anatomy, Supernatural, Watchmen) are showing their “dogged” devotion by donating to a canine cause. In the following interview the founder of the 3rd annual Great Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Project invites the actor’s admirers to join the party by making a pledge which will benefit The Brittany Foundation, a no-kill non-profit in Agua Dulce, California which provides a safe sanctuary for dogs as they wait to win a starring role in a forever home.
How did you come up with the idea of a Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Project fundraiser to benefit The Brittany Foundation?
DonateJDM.org came from the affection Jeff’s fans have for him as both an actor and a man. Because all those involved behind the scenes are active members of Jeff’s fan community, it was an ideal first-hand perspective to see how many JDM fans struggle year after year to come up with just the right birthday gift for him. That’s where the idea of DonateJDM.org was born. What sort of gift would both express affection for him and might be something he’d genuinely enjoy? The obvious answer was dogs. You can’t know anything about Jeff without knowing how much he loves dogs. All dogs in general, and his dogs in specific.
So that first year, our intention was simply to create a space where any JDM fan looking to wish Jeff a happy birthday could go and save a dog or ten in his name. And on his birthday, he’d get his gift from all those fans in the form of a collective check for the total amount raised by fans coming together to celebrate him in a way we hoped he’d love as much as we love him.
And he did! Loved it so much, in fact, that while the first year was a big surprise, the subsequent years he’s thrown his support behind it by making it clear how much this gift really does mean to him.
Last year Donate JDM raised more than $7,000 for The Brittany Foundation. How will you be raising funds this year to meet your goal, and how long will the fundraiser last?
READ MORE at the link above!!!!
