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Its that time of year again, so i would like to personally invite all of you to the kickoff of this years OpFTH 4th of July CAT!!!. Couple years ago it was an instant "into the fire" learning experience, last year helped starting early. so lets get it going this year and by the 3rd time i should figure this out.

First and formost

THE LIMITED EDITION T SHIRTS ARE BACK THIS YEAR!!!! -

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/opfth21?utm_campaign=mobile-campaign-page-share&utm_content=opfth21&utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link


THEY LOOK FRIGING AWESOME!!!


**Tshirt window is through JULY 4th**




must hi-light/select entire link and right click. then select go to.
or copy and paste into your internet browser window.




Awesome donors so far (confirmed) ((Updated 6/26))

Palama
Delta1
DED
Stinger88
Cheno
Sonoverbeach
Zito
Shaun341
Thumpr
Leebot
dkeage
mjrburn
ZRX1200
Smooth light
Chazz
Gummy Jones
Napalman67


pledged prize packs

Shaun Prize
MJburn
Palama
Delta



And to the 2020:
http://www.cigarbid.com/...ange-2020-PRIZES-DRAWN-


Here is the link to last years fund raiser:
http://www.cigarbid.com/...lange-2019-PRIZES-DRAWN



And to the 2018:
http://www.cigarbid.com/...8-COMPLETE-PRIZES-DRAWN

And to the 2017:
http://www.cigarbid.com/...ETE-PRIZE-WINNERS-DRAWN

And to the 2016:
http://www.cigarbid.com/...pFTH-CAT-Challange-2016

And a Link to the 2015 fund raiser.

http://www.cigarbid.com/...y-OpFTH-CAT-fund-raiser

Copied and pasted, with minor editing, from last year.

Allrighty folks lets get this party started!!



It is time for the "Official" Start to this year's festivities.

As many of y'all know Operation From the Heart is a nonprofit organization that sends care packages to our soldiers serving abroad. OpFTH is 100% donation driven, when the donations stop Bill and the other agents fund our shipping costs out of our own pockets.

All donations go the Operation from The Heart shipping fund!


Here are the "General" rules

Once again this year is all about shipping funds as Smitty informed me that the OpFTH account is basically EMPTY


This year's goal is a minimum of, NOPE, not this year. I know that all will give till they bleed and we don't need the added pressure of a goal. I will work on keeping a much better count on donations to give final count as some people have asked me for one in the past.


YOU CAN PLEDGE ANY AMOUNT!
Here is how you can make your contribution.

Personal or Certified check, or money order.(Send to schmitty but make them out OPERATION FROM THE HEART or OPFTH (not schmitty))

OpFTH
29456 Groesbeck Hwy
Roseville MI 48066

After the CAT last year, there was a upgrade to the web page that allows someone to pledge a donation every month directly from the website via paypal. super easy to do! and no need to keep track of paper or deal with snail mail.

Cigar donations can be sent to

schmitty (at the same address above)

please be sure to add a note with your CBid handle, # of cigars and that this is for the C-A-T if sending cigars (will make verification much easier)

The preferred method for monetary donations is paypal. goto Paypal and send money to: [email protected] if that is easier for you Techies REMEMBER TO INCLUDE YOUR CBID HANDLE

^^THIS EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED FROM LAST YEAR SO PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THAT DETAIL!!!^^
Instant, Secure, online contributions VIA Paypal VIA Credit Card on the OpFTH website!

www.opfth.org
Click on the Paypal or JustGive Logo’s on the left hand side of the page.
WE prefer PAYPAL, you get an instant receipt for tax purposes!
The paypal will provide Schmitty with real time verification, and lets try to make his life easier.


Paypal is the prefered method (DO NOT list Cigars or Cigar Bid anywhere in the donation...Title donations "C-A-T 2020" Email your confirmation receipt to Ypetryna, PM for e-mail.

Prizes determined based on random draws

Tentatively only one prize per donor (this could change though) and just because a donation is made does not guarantee winning a prize.

Fund raiser will run up until July 4th Prize drawings will take place a few days later, Donations MUST be confirmed to be eligible.

The Prize Structure will follow shortly

No prize tiers this year and while there is no "minimum" donation amount please remember that we are talking about cigar prizes that for the most part are worth at least $50 and much more considering all the Full boxes of smokes being offered.


Each box cost roughly $19 to ship. That is as easy as winning one less fiver this month, or sending one less PIB/Trade/RAOK etc


Now just a few bits of FYI

OpFTH is a 501(c) Non-profit
None of the Agents or Directors take a salary, we are 100% volunteer
The main office (smitty22 in Roseville MI) spends roughly $500 a month in shipping give or take.
close to 80% of OpFTH's shipping funds come from the fine B/SOTL here on CBid
The annual 4th of July C-A-T accounts for roughly 60% of the Annual funds used each year
Right now There is very little funds in the OpFTH account, which means smitty self funds shipping cost until more funds come in.
As long as there are Soldiers fighting abroad OpFTH will continue to send packages
There are currently about 20 on our shipping list

If you know of someone serving over there, please get me their APO and expected ship home month (as best as OPSEC rules allow) and I will get them added to the shipping list

And as always I extend my, Bill and the rest of the OpFTH family's MANY THANKS to ALL that continue to donate and allow us to keep sending as many packages as possible to those Soldiers that are risking their lives for our better good.

and finally here are some links to help

on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/opfth?fref=ts

on Crowdrise
https://www.crowdrise.com/OperationFromtheHeart

Cafe Press (link through and buy OpFTH themed goods)
http://www.opfth.com/

Good Search (search engine that donates for every search to the charity you choose, and also has many online partners that donate for purchases)
http://www.goodsearch.com/

And as always...THANK YOU for your continued support of OpFTH


disclaimer, I, ypetryna, am not an agent of OpFTH. Todd usually throws this party but he is unable to do so but it needs to happen so I volunteer, not that I do much other than get this started and keep track of the prize donations and drawing.

Thank You

PS – any suggestions or if you find any errors with this post please let me know so I can update the thread appropriately. Thank you.

PPS - thanks for helping me successfully run this for the last couple of years. I know Schmitty appreciates all your help too

PLEASE BE LIKE RICK AND PUT YOUR CBID HANDLE IN THE NAME FOR THE DONATION!!!!!

TY

This is an amazing challenge for an absolute worthy cause! Count me in! But please excuse me as this is my first year entering. There is an awful lot of information in that initial post. So what do I need to do to get a shirt (shirts are awesome), and in addition to PayPal is there azelle account. If not no worries I will make it work. Thanks and looking forward to being a part of this!

Thank you, got my shirt ordered!

Who knew trying to host a charity tourney would be such a struggle against greedy dealers concerned about their regular tips!
I offered $100 bonus to the pricks to offset their regular income & they're still thinking about it!!!

It doesn't matter even if we have to self deal this thing is happening!

Our regular players are onboard & a social media ad blitz will soon be underway

Trying to secure Bonesaw brewery to cater beverages but either way premium beer will be free
Still deciding on food options for the break, but there will be pizza & wings at the least
The prize pool is still growing but there will be at least 5 OPfTH shirts & premium cigar prize packs to generous entrants.

Expecting a decent offering from this but if nothing else a lot of people will be exposed to this noble cause!

Planning on giving a short word about the charity prior to start so if any here have suggested talking points I'd appreciate it.

We're going to have plenty of OPfTH literature on hand & I already have more than a handful of good brothers ready to give whatever is needed to support the cause.

Final date is yet to be confirmed but it'll be the 9th, 10th or 11th as our ret. decorated S.E.A.L. GM wants time to properly promote & execute a professional event worthy of the cause.

If I keep getting push back from these prick dealers I could just run a 50/50 ticket event which will be way easier & possibly even more profitable?

gars and cash sent today.

Thanks to all organizers of this event, extra special THANKS to you two👍👍.

Not speaking for him but afaik, Delta is offering up a prize package too.

Made a donation forgot to add handle.

cigars going out today

personal check via my bank sent to addy

1st annual OPfTH tournament is on for July 9th 7pm
Seriously premium prize packs assembled
Final structure:
$65 buy in with $60 rebuys through 6th round
1st buy in pays $5 to the dealers with all remaining split 50/50 to OPfTH & prize pool
I'll get pics of the prizes & poker room the night of the event to share with you guys.
Should be a GREAT TIME!
If anyone here is at all interested you should come!
Pre-registration is highly recommend though as this is expected to sell out.

thats fanastic

try Chaz :)

TSHIRTS only available for 3 more days . then GONE FOREVER! new design every year usually end july 4th. these will end and get made and shipped directly to you . After sunday - DONT ASK IF WE HAVE ANY- WE DONT!!! :)

thanks again. cigarbid is where this started and continues to be best the support and community around.

+1

updated. let know what i missed

Yprtryna,

Can you confirm the virgins if possible? Thanks

Quick look Leeds me to think it's
Thumpr
Leebot
Smooth light

There were a bunch of donors over the weekend, but I just got into cell range and I don't see any cbid handles

As of July 5, 2021, our limited time 2021 t-shirt fundraiser has officially closed! In total, we received donations from 26 benefactors - selling a total of 28 shirts from Custom Ink. We have raised a total of $1,449.13 in donations to go towards sending care packages to our troops overseas - a total that surpasses any fundraiser we have campaigned for in the past. For reference, our 2020 T-shirt fundraiser raised just over $800. We are BLOWN AWAY by your continued support of our cause.

All t-shirts that were ordered during this fundraiser are estimated to arrive around July 20, 2021.

As always, we want to thank the supporters that have come to us via the CBid forum - we could not do this without you

Yaro- FWIW, I ordered 2 shirts.


No prize required.


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Yaro, I'm heading out of town for a few weeks vacation with wife and daughter's family...we've gone stir-crazy and tired of the same old same old walls...

will be back after August 5, and will be able to put together the SoCal Sunshine prize then. Please accept my apologies for the delay, and inform the "lucky" recipient...

I will not participate in the prize drawing.


Thanks for all who donated...and to Yaro for masterminding this again.

Gentlemen, please PM your snailers. Also anyone else who we may have missed. And thanks for your participation.

Take me out of the prizes please

^^that’s awesome.

620 Candelas raised
I came in 2nd so adding 126 candelas
For a total of 746

Fun night!

Thanks Schmitty and all who love & pray for our troops!

Awesome Dan'l!!!