A Social Experiment - The Hypothesis

Anyone that has been following my Facebook page yet should know two things.  First we are adopting and doing some kind of fundraiser or planning some kind of fundraiser.  Second we recently started using a nutritional cleansing product called Isagenix.  Besides being the best nutritional cleansing product in the world, Isagenix also has a generous compensation plan.  A number of adoptive parents and others before have used it to generate a great residual income for their family. One of our goals was to use Isagenix to raise money for our adoption, and then continue to use that additional income to help pay for medical needs when our kids get home as well as pay off some debt.

I decided over the last couple of weeks that presenting Isagenix which has numerous ways to help millions of people, is much easier than fundraising.  I presented this idea to some of my adoptive friends as a way to help them raise funds for their adoptions, but I got no response.  I was not surprised because it is hard to rewire your brain when you are saving every penny you have to adopt, to instead spend money on a product for yourself that has potential to make money.  I GET IT.  So I decided to do a "Social Experiment".

We recently finished a 10 X 10 Challenge to fill a $3500 match grant.  It was awesome seeing people give and give generously to help us reach this goal.  You might think that we had a ton of people that stepped up to support us in order to reach this goal in 10 days.  But the fact is 20 people supported us. The bulk of the support was from one person who had promised a donation months ago and I asked her to wait to help us with a matching grant.  I'm not complaining, in fact I am very grateful, the point I am trying to make is that fundraising is hard and does not always work out like you might hope.

The Social Experiment

So here is my so called Social Experiment.  We have been informed that we are soon going to be listed on Village to Village, as one of their Adoptive Families.  This is great news and Village to Village is a great organization and allows donors to make tax deductible donations to their site.  The next step in our adoption fees is going to be the orphanage fees.  These fees are to pay the orphanage for caring for our children until we adopt them.  Since we are adopting two we need to pay two fees. To keep it simple we will round each fee to $6000 (it will probably be a little less but without knowing the exchange rate and each orphanage is a little different so we just round).  We will soon be announcing a fundraiser to try to reach one of the orphanage donations. Here are the subjects in my experiment:

Fundraisers

I am going to start a puzzle fundraiser.  In this fundraisers, potential donors can purchase a piece or pieces of a puzzle.  Their name will be recorded on the back of the puzzle piece so we know who has supported our adoption.  The puzzle will be framed when its completed and the total number of pieces will equate the $6000 goal.

Isagenix

In order to maintain an active account with Isagenix we need to continue to order the product.  Which we would want to do anyways. From the day the puzzle fundraiser starts we will also track any income we receive from Isagenix.  We will only record income when it has surpassed the amount we have spent to get our products.

A Few Ground Rules

Whichever subject is able to reach the $6000 goal first will be the win the experiment.  

If a matching grant is given during the experiment, only the donated amount will count towards the experiment.

Totals will be updated at the discretion of the blogger, based on the amount of free time available.

Both the Fundraiser and the Isagenix business will be pursued in the normal operating manner. Neither one will be shown any favor during the experiment. 

This is how the results will be displayed.

A few words from the Blogger

This experiment is for entertainment purposes only.  I really could care less which one wins.  I just want to get my kids home.  My guess is there are some people that don't like this, I don't care.  Again I just want to get my kids home.  Hope you enjoy following along.  Feel free to share this with your friends or try it yourself if you like the results.