#mpssux

Hello, John Mayer fans and friends of The Isaac Foundation!

Here’s the Spring Raffle we’ve been promising you!!!!

We have 4 awesome Raffle Packages that we’re giving away in May, and which we Previewed yesterday on our Instagram page.  (Come follow us, at @jmfanstreetteam ).  We’ll start this post by listing the contents of each package and attaching one picture of each.  (Check yesterday’s Instagram posts, to see more detailed pics of all the contents.)  

Then further below, we’ll describe all the Raffle details.  If you enter the raffle (and why wouldn’t you?), please follow the instructions carefully, to ensure that you get entered according to your preferences.  Ok, here goes…

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First, the Raffle Packages:

Package #1

A complete “VIP” front row swag package from the 2022 Sob Rock Tour, which includes:

-       JM Sob Rock Bandana

-       VIP Lanyard

-       Sob Rock Sunglasses

-       Sob Rock Fanny Pack

-       Commemorative Ticket for the Boston show

-       Lyrics Sheet for “Shouldn’t Matter,” signed/dated by John Mayer

-       A Sob Rock/VIP guitar pick from the Pre-show VIP Lounge, in a Paradise Valley pick tin.

Package #2

Everything in Package #1, PLUS:

-       A red “Search for Everything” Long-Sleeved Shirt (Medium)

-       A hilarious custom “Dead & Company” bumper sticker.

Package #3

SOLO Tour 2023 Merch from a VIP Package:

-       SOLO Tote Bag

-       VIP Lanyard

-       Commemorative Ticket

-       SOLO Journal

-       Poster from the SOLO Tour opener show

-       A “Local 83” marker pen with a little life left in it – because the pen that was supposed to be in this VIP package was missing!

Package #4

-       Vintage LL Bean windbreaker (of New Light fame)

-       A tee in Large from the 2022 “Rise For The River” benefit show

-       A poster from the 2023 SOLO Tour opener show.

As always, we are doing this raffle using merch donations from generous JM fans in order to raise money for The Isaac Foundation and MPS kids.  100% of our net profits are always donated to them, to help find and fund a cure for MPS of all types.  If you’d like to know more about this awesome organization that does so much for MPS kids and their families, check them out at: www.theisaacfoundation.com

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Raffle Details

The raffle starts today, April 23, in celebration of Earth Day weekend which is the 11th anniversary of our group’s beginnings.  It ends on May 15th, MPS Awareness Day 2023, at midnight that evening (Eastern Time or your local time, whichever is latest).  The raffle is open to all John Mayer fans and fans of The Isaac Foundation, anywhere in the world.  While we do insure and track U.S. shipments, please understand that the post office will not guarantee international deliveries and we have no realistic way to track them.  We’ve never had an international winner who hasn’t received their merch, but keep in mind that it could happen and it’s totally beyond our control.  It’s probably not a good idea to enter if you suspect that the merch won’t arrive due to your local situation.  But if you want to join in the fun and take a chance, we welcome you.  It’s all for a great cause.

For this raffle, we felt the need to do something really special. Maybe something that we’ve never done before.  We wanted EVERYONE to be able to enter, so we created different levels of donations and customized entries.  Please select the amount that you’re most comfortable donating and if there’s an option for which packages you’re entering, please tell us in your donation notes what packages you choose.

We prefer to run all our raffles using PayPal, because it allows us to track entries more efficiently. But if your country doesn’t allow PayPal, or you don’t have an account, you could contact us privately on Instagram to inquire about what other options you have.  We’ll accommodate you to the best of our ability.  For those sending a donation with PayPal, please send it “Friends and Family” to [email protected] .  If you send it another way that incurs fees, please understand that our only option will be to ask you to cancel it on your end and resubmit it as F&F.  We are unable to return the entry and ask you to resubmit it, because PayPal charges us fees for that too.  Understand that you are donating (ultimately) to a charity, not buying goods and services from us.  There will be only 4 winners, and if you aren’t one of them, your entry money will be sent to the charity in full.  Please don’t enter the raffle unless you are completely okay with that!

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Now, here’s the fun part:

$5 donation =     1 entry each, into any 2 packages of your choice.

$10 donation =   1 entry each, into all 4 packages, OR…

                          2 entries each, into any 2 pkgs of your choice, OR…

                          4 entries into any 1 package of your choice.

$20 donation =   3 entries each, into all 4 packages.

$30 donation =   5 entries each, into all 4 packages.

$50 donation =   9 entries each, into all 4 packages.

$100 donation =  50 entries, your choice of how they get distributed              

                             to the packages (you can put all 50 entries into 

                             one package, if you want to!)

The drawing will be held after May 15th, as soon as all entries have been tallied and sorted.  The drawing date will be announced in advance and then held via Instagram Live.  Merchandise packages will be sent out to winners no later than May 31, 2023.  (We take the time to package them up nicely for you with JM wrapping paper and some other goodies).  Don’t forget to please drop us a private message over on Instagram, if you need other entry options.

Disclaimer:

We are a worldwide JM fan group that formed in 2012 to raise money voluntarily for The Isaac Foundation. We are not John’s official street team, and we’re not formally affiliated with him or The Isaac Foundation.  John Mayer has not donated any of the merchandise that we raffle off.  It is ALL donated by generous Mayer fans around the globe.  Our Official Disclaimer statement is on our profile.

EDIT 17 Aug 2018 - OOPS! Just realized that our numbers reported in May were wrong!! We miscalculated the exchange rate by going in the wrong direction.  Normally, we collect our fundraisers in USD and convert them to CAD when we donate to The Isaac Foundation.  Back in May, we ran our fundraiser for the first time in CAD, and  then we reported the wrong amount converted to USD.   

Soooo sorry about that!  We did raise $280 CAD for The Isaac Foundation in May, but the USD equivalent was $222.58, NOT $352.24.  

Therefore, our grand total was $129.66 USD less than we reported, or $9,422.20.

We are making this announcement and the appropriate corrections across all our social media pages.

Again, our apologies for the error.

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Original post:

Our May fundraiser for The Isaac Foundation brought in direct donations totaling $280 CAD, or $352.24 in equivalent USD.  

This brings our fundraising total to $9551.86.

Our JMFST Etsy store brought in $44.79 for The Isaac Foundation in April (that’s $55.52 in CAD at today’s exchange rate).  The donation has been made, bringing us only $800 away from our 2018 goal of $10K raised for MPS kids!!

RAFFLE TIME for MPS kids and the @isaacfoundation - LET’S RAISE SOME AWARENESS, JM FANS!!

This time it’s a FREE one on Instagram, to help raise awareness of MPS!  It’s open to anyone, worldwide.  ONE winner drawn at random on May 15th will win this adorbs artwork - The Heart of Life IS GOOD!  (Thanks go to our teammate Allison, for making and donating this to us!!)

Here are the details from our Instagram post:

Our 2017 Year-End Report

Dedicated John Mayer fans raised a total of $1,803.58 USD for @isaacfoundation in 2017. Congrats on a great team effort for MPS kids and research!  Our group will be 6 years old on Earth Day, and we are so proud that we’re still making an impact!

The breakdown of the above amount is:

$1,042.29 raised in a raffle for Team Trey / MPS II Fund.

$250 raised by an item donated to the Annual Gala Silent Auction.

$130 raised for Team Isaac in the Memorial Day “Run for a Cure.”

$236.29 raised in JMFSTcreations’ Etsy store profits ($82.63 donated in 2017, $153.66 donated in 2018).

$93 raised in honor of John’s 40th birthday.

$32 raised for Giving Tuesday.

$20 raised for Team Jack / MPS II Fund.

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In related news:

Our Etsy Store is open again due to a request for seeds. We just had a $12 sale yesterday, representing our first shop sale in 2018.  The shop is open on a seasonal basis, sort of sporadically based on merchandise availability, but you can always send a private message if you want to buy something, and we’ll accommodate you.  100% of shop profits are donated to The Isaac Foundation.

A small accounting error was discovered in December’s report.  We owe TIF another 10 cents for December.  Some of the Etsy fees for December actually got debited in 2018, so we’ll have to expense them against the next donation and carry them over in the books. We’ll add the .10 to our next donation, as well, and get ourselves all reconciled.  :)

Our 2017 books are officially closed, and the 2018 book is open!

We finally have December's info for you. So sorry for the delay, which was caused by a nasty flu and such... yada yada yada.

We took in $174 in the Etsy store in December.  We had $24 in shipping and handling costs, $6.05 in Etsy fees, and $3 in PayPal fees.  That leaves us with $140.95 in net profits for the month (almost all of this was seed sales). 

Plus we found $12.71 in net profits for January 2017 that we had previously overlooked due to an accounting error.  So that was added to today's donation to The Isaac Foundation.  We just donated a total of $153.66, bringing the total we’ve raised for MPS kids, so far, up to $9,127.55 USD.

JM Fan Street Teamer Donna Firsty just released this newly eclosed Spicebush Swallowtail in honor of Luke, who's battling MPS, and his family.

EDIT:  At the time this was posted, we did not know that Luke had passed away the previous night.  RIP, Luke.  To read The Isaac Foundation’s touching tribute to him written by Executive Director Andy McFadyen, head to: