Birds Give Back 2022
Time to pay it forward!
Hi Friends,
Those of you who have followed my career may remember that Birds Give Back is a huge, single-day, annual fundraiser to help students at my alma matter, Illinois State University. I have written blogs in the past about why I feel so grateful to ISU for the support and opportunities it provided in my life and career. I've also written about why I've thrown my support behind the LGBTQ+ Student Support Endowment which offers emergency resources for students who face financial hardships or loss of family backing after coming out, as well as providing funds for special programming around queer issues.
This year my wife Susan and I are going a step further, to become challenge donors in support of the fund. What's a challenge donor, you may ask? Here's what the website says:
Rachel Spangler ’05, '07 M.Ed and Susan Spangler ’86, PhD. ‘06 will contribute $2,000 to the LGBTQ+ Support Fund when 100 gifts are received for the fund.
So basically we are betting $2,000 on your support for LGBTQ+ students, and we are really hoping you will make us pay up. The best part is it doesn't matter how much you give. We just need 100 people to give something! And to sweeten the pot for you sapphic romance readers out there, I'm tacking on a few rewards:
Anyone who donates at least $10 to the LGBTQ+ Student Support Endowment while using this link on Feb 24 will automatically be entered into a drawing to win a free ebook copy of any one of my novels.
Anyone who donates at least $100 dollars LGBTQ+ Student Support Endowment will be guaranteed to receive any one of my audiobooks or ebooks.
Anyone who donates $250 LGBTQ+ Student Support Endowment will receive a free, autographed, print copy of any one of my books, along with a handwritten thank-you note.
And finally, anyone who donates $500 LGBTQ+ Student Support Endowment or more to these students who mean so much to me will receive not only a free, autographed, print copy of any one of my books and a thank-you card from yours truly, but also the right to name a side character in one of my future books!
Important, if you donate, don’t forget to shoot me an email at Rachel_Spangler@yahoo.com to let me know which book or ebook you’d like!
The donation website will not give your contact information or tell me how much you donated.
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart, and I am proud to know each and every one of you who opens your heart (and wallet) to make sure that every Redbird is given the opportunities I was given at ISU. You never know whose future you might be helping to secure.
Again, all you have to do is use this link: https://birdsgiveback.illinoisstate.edu/amb/Spangler
