Sponsor a student, staff, or faculty of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in our Wisdom Winter Workout! Participants will do a 10 km challenge by ski, skate, bike, or foot on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
All proceeds from this fundraising event will go to support the most urgent needs at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College.
Click on the "Give Now" button to go to the sponsorship/donation form to sponsor your participant.
***To find your participant, check off their affiliation (student, staff or faculty) on the donation form, and then select their name from the drop-down.***
Please note our GiveCampus platform transfers 100% of your gift to Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College. All gifts of $20 or more qualify for a charitable receipt for tax purposes (including Americans if using the "USD" sponsorship form).
Thank you for your support of our college as we get active and enjoy all that our valley winters have to offer!
Thank you to every single person who participated in, and/or sponsored, our first-ever Wisdom Winter Workout! This incredibly successful event raised $22,296 from 311 different donors, and got many of us outdoors and active! The goals were to raise spirits, get outside, promote the college, have fun, increase our network, and raise funds. Every goal was met! Congratulations to everyone, and special thanks to the many of you who truly went above and beyond.
The winners are:
Category: Most Money Raised
1st Place: Mary Zwicker and Elizabeth Gay raised $2,550
2nd Place: Paul Jordan and Aedan Reidy raised $1,702
3rd Place: Elizabeth Prins and Mary Lindgren raised $1,465
Faculty/Staff: Katherine Kelly raised $1,820
Honorary Faculty/Staff: Chris Wilson and family raised $2,100
Category: Most Sponsors
1st Place: Makenna Constantin and Nikki Vanderheyden achieved 35 sponsors
2nd Place: Emily McPeek and Ruth Morris achieved 18 sponsors
3rd Place: Elizabeth Westin and Mary Rose Lee Wah achieved 16 sponsors
Faculty/Staff: Maria Reilander achieved 26 sponsors
Pizza Party:
There were THREE SWC households with 100% participation:
-St. Paul
-Our Lady of Fatima
-St. Kateri
And thus each of these three households will receive a pizza party!
Congratulations, All!
The WWW.2021 Organizing Committee
1972 days ago by Katherine LongoToday is the day! It is sunny, relatively mild (-6 C), with chance of snow, and some strong, cold winds!
We're now off to complete our 10-km challenges, or 5 kms each for our teams of 2. We're all looking forward to seeing the photos and videos that will be posted and shared by participants.
A HUGE thank you to everyone who is making this event such a resounding success. We are blown away by the support shown by so many sponsors! Thank you so much!
Some fun facts:
-Dan Olshen of Combermere read about our event in local online newspaper the Madawaska Valley Current, and decided to cover the cost of the pizza for the household with greatest participation! He has given us vouchers for pizzas from his favourite local pizzeria. Thank you, Dan!
-We have not one, or two, but three teams of 2 that consist of a Mary and an Elizabeth! May Our Lady of the Visitation and Saint Elizabeth be special patrons of our event today.
-Some of our youngest sponsors are under the age of 5, and wanted to sponsor a family member out of their own piggy banks! They each contributed between $1 and $2 in coins.
-Our largest single gift, given by an anonymous donor, was $1,000.
-Today is the last day to give to this campaign, which closes at 11:59 pm EST tonight (Saturday February 6)!
1982 days ago by Katherine Longo60 participants are registered!
Sponsors are responding with such generosity; THANK YOU to each one of you!!
Our 100-donor goal was reached last night, and continues to climb.
3 days remain, as participants strive to win prizes for number of sponsors and dollars raised.
A draw just announced gives participants more opportunities to win cool College merchandise.
Local media are taking notice: https://madvalleycurrent.com/2...
And in sunny, snowy Barry's Bay, the temperature is rising, and might even reach above 0 degrees C this week! Let's see what Saturday has in store...
1985 days ago by Katherine LongoWe are excited to announce that we have 57 participants registered for the first-ever Wisdom Winter Workout! This is amazing: more than half of our student body and college community will be doing this challenge!
Thank you so much to our sponsors! We are looking forward to walking, running, skiing, and skating on February 6th. Oh, and one who will be skateboarding, an exception only offered to participating priests. :-)
Please pray that the weather is nice that day, as today in the Bay it's a chilly -15C to -22C, but gloriously sunny.
1991 days ago by Katherine LongoDonors
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