Relay For Life Fundraising Levels

 

 For those who wonder what the various team levels mean, there was a chart in the Relay for Life Volunteers group showing them.

 

For those that raise 12,500 Linden dollars, or about $50 USD, they have reached Bronze Level fundraising. This is what the plurality of teams reach. 

 

For teams that raise 50,000 Linden dollars, or about $200 USD, Silver Level fundraising.

 

Teams that raise 125,000 Linden dollars, or about $500 USD,  get Gold Level rank. 

 

Teams that raise 250,000 Linden dollars, or about $1000, about the price of a new computer, get  Platinum Level fundraising. 

 

For the teams that have raised 500,000 Linden dollars, or about $2000 USD, they've reached Jade Level.

 

The teams that get to 750,000 Lindens raised, about $3000 USD, they're at Sapphire rank. 

 

Teams that reach one million Lindens raised, about $4000 USD, are at Emerald Level. Those teams that reach this level have put in some work.

 

The teams that reach 1,250,000 Lindens raised, about $5000 USD, are at Ruby Level fundraising. 

 

Teams that raise a million and a half Lindens, about $6000 USD, are at Topaz Level fundraising.  

 

Those teams that raise 1,750,000 Linden dollars, about $7000 USD, are at Diamond Level.

 

Teams that raise 2,500,000 Linden dollars, about $10,000 USD, are at Crimson rank.

 

Those teams that raise 3,750,000 Linden dollars, about $15,000 USD, are at Purple Level fundraising.  

 

Teams that raise five million Linden dollars, about $20,000 USD, are at All Star Level fundraising.

 

The teams that raise 6,750,000 Linden dollars, about $25,000 USD, are at Super Star rank.

 

Teams that raise 7,500,000 Linden dollars, about $30,000 USD, are at Supernova Level fundraising.

 

The teams that raise ten million Linden dollars, about $40,000 USD, are at Hypernova Level fundriasing.

 

Finally, the teams that raise 12,500,000 Linden dollars, about $50,000 USD, have reached the top rank for this year - Intergalactic Level fundraising.

 

The ranks have changed somewhat over the years. For a time, they would get a little higher each year, until there was a reset. And sometimes the names are different. One year, "All Star" was the first fundraising level, before Bronze.  

 

How high will the various teams get this year?

 

RFL Sunbeamers Reach Sapphire Level

 

 

On Monday morning on her Discord channel, Cynthia Farshore announced the Relay for Life in Second Life's Team Sunbeamers had reached a total of 774,741 Lindens, or $3098 USD. The team is now Sapphire level. The team is in ninth place

The top three teams are The River of Life with a total of 2,887,458 Linden dollars raised, The Adult Partnership having raised 2,789,981 Lindens, and Camping for a Cure which has collected 2,542,753 Linden dollars. All three are Crimson level fundraising. 

"Next stop, Emerald."

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

RFL Sunbeamers, Roos With A Dream, Teams Level Up After Medieval Fun Faire

 

 

On Saturday May 6, the Relay for Life teams Sunbeamers and Roos With A Dream held the Medieval Fun Faire at Caledon Downs. There were numerous activities from axe throwing to archery to racing. The high point was the concert at the end with DJ Kayla and the Roos.

While the event had somewhat light attendance, it did raise quite a bit of cash, thanks in part to some remote donations. A total of 170,826 Linden dollars was raised between the two teams, the Sunbeamers making 94,198 L and the Roos With A Dream getting 76,628 Lindens. This bumped the Sunnies to over 750K, and making Sapphire rank, and the Roos past a half million and into Jade. As of now on the team totals page (leaving out the Sci-Fi con), the Sunbeamers are number nine of 173 teams, and the Roos number 15.

For more on the Faire, go to Events.

 

Update: There were minor errors in the article earlier, which have since been corrected. 

 

RFL Team Sunbeamers Make Sapphire

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Yesterday was the Relay for Life's Team Sunbeamer's "Medieval Fest" event. The event was fun with rides, archery and axe-throwing competitions, a joust competition (Dusk Griswold won), kissing booths, jail and bails, and a performance by "Roos With A Dream's" DJ Kayla. Plenty of cash was raised. But one huge donation sent things over the 750,000 Linden dollar mark, and into Sapphire rank. 

As Alison Flow of the 'Roos put it, This event raised over 100k, shared by two teams. That sounds nice. ... the fair raised 107K for Relay for Life." A little over 90,000 Lindens went to the Sunbeamers. The 17,000 Lindens the 'Roos raised pushed them into Diamond level fundraising. 

That night, the Sunbeamers would get their Sapphire badge, which was put on display at Cutlass.

As of now, the Sunbeamers are number 12 of 133 teams. The 'Roos are number six. Fifth is One More Light. Fourth is Cure Chasers. Third is The River of Life. Second is Camping For A Cure. And the top team, and only All-Star ranked one, is The Adult Partnership.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

First image from Liska da'Lantros (LiskaDaLantros Resident)

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Sunbeamers Reach Sapphire Rank

 Once again, the Relay for Life in Second Life's Team Sunbeamers reached another milestone. Near the end of the Medieval Fun fest this past weekend, a number of donations brought the total amount of Linden dollars to over the 750,000 mark. This brought the team officially into Sapphire rank among the Relay teams. 

The Sunbeamers and the Roos With A Dream thank all who came to the fair and helped. the Sunbeamers Medieval Fun Fair 2 day total is L$73,375 added to it the L$44,000 the Roos brought in with their show for a grand total of L$117,375 and Sapphire. Go Relay!! 
 
With the Medieval Fun Fest over, the Sunbeamers still have over two and a half weeks to raise money at events, such as their weekly Moon Dances every Thursday night at 6PM in Sunlight Bay. Then comes the Relay weekend which offers one last push. Will the team make it to one million Lindens and Emerald level? They're certainly going to try.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Correction: The Moon Dance is on Thursdays, not Tuesdays as originally written, sorry about the error.
 

Day Before Relay Weekend

 June 5 was the day before Relay weekend, and a number of things happened. Among them was an episode of "Lab Gab" in which Strawberry Linden interviewed some of the Relay Committee, Stingray Raymaker, MamaP Beerbaum, Nikki Mathieson, and Trager Alter. Patch Linden was also there. To see the video, Click Here.

After that, there would be a round of "Family Feud" between some Relay personalities and some Lindens and Moles.

Afterwards, Saffia Widdershins would have a discussion between Patch and Constantine Linden, taking some questions from the audience about the Relay and the Second Life Birthday.

In the past few days, some teams have made some last-minute level gains. This includes Team Sunbeamers, which on Thursday finally achieved 750,000 Linden dollars raised, or Sapphire rank. Once again, "the little team that could" has been a big achiever by getting to the top ten of over 200 teams in fundraising levels.

Don't forget to check out the Relay Weekend, which starts today at 10AM SL time, the most intense 24 hours in Second Life.

Bixyl Shuftan

In The Purple For The Sunbeamers

Taken at Rita Mariner's home. When the Sunbeamers Relay team hit Platinum level fundraising, or 250,000 Lindens, a couple months ago, Nydia told everyone if the team hit Sapphire rank she would go purple for two weeks. So with the team having achieved Sapphire in the air show, Nydia went ahead and got a purple vixen avatar. Even though others had told her they'd take one of her weeks for her, Nydia says she'll go through the full two weeks, "I am a vixen of my word."

Yours truly is on the right. Even though I had the purple otter avatar, when finding a fennec fox on sale I went ahead and got it. So I've been going about the SL15B as a purple fennec. As for the kilt, my time on "Bid Me Pantsless" ends today. So thankfully back to wearing trousers.

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Team Sunbeamers Hit Sapphire Level

It was a great weekend for the Relay for Life in Second Life's Team Sunbeamers. Friday June 15 was the close of two "Bid Me" events run by the team, "Bid Me Foxy" in which Cynthia Farshore was putting her anthro goat avatar on the line, and "Bid Me Goat" in which Shockwave Yareach did the same with his wolf avatar. At Club Cutlass at 8PM following the party there, the amounts raised on the kiosks were made final, Rita announcing the results:

Beamers:  here are the results of the 2 BID MEs that ended tonight.

Cynthia Farshore:
Stay Goat:             12,900L
Go Foxy;                 24144L

She goes Foxy for 12 WEEKS!

Shockwave Yareach:
Stay Wolf:                 1050 L
Go Goat:                    24100 L

He goes Goat for 12 Weeks!

Cynthia took the change more or less in stride, when changing into a vixen having a chicken in her mouth, later saying, "Between the kiosk of Shocky and I, we racked up L$62,244." Shockwave posted on Facebook, "I was on the BidMe for Relay For Life. Every 2K$ put in, I'm a Goat for a week. I'm now gonna be a Goat for... 12 Weeks. Holy..."

The following day, Saturday June 16, was the Farshore Field Air Show. It was widely expected that the team would get to the coveted half million Linden dollar mark. And before the event was over, it did. The Sunbeamers passed 500,000 Lindens, and achieved Sapphire fundraising rank. For the second time this season, the team had achieved a rank they never had before.

The last time The Sunbeamers reached this amount of cash, I went in a female avatar for a week. But with me pantsless most of the time thanks to a previous Bid Me event,  I wasn't in the mood for something so drastic this time. So when one of my teammates was saying she'd go purple for two weeks if the team reached Sapphire, I offered to take one of them. But team captain Rita Mariner and teammates Dusk Griswold, and Skylark Lefavre also went purple that day.

So what next? There is a joint event with the Meli's Maniacs team being planned. And of course there is the Relay Weekend and the Sunbeamer camp build next month. For now, once again the "Little team that could" is taking pride that once again it's proved itself a top fundraiser among the Relay teams.

Go Sunbeamers! Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan

RFL Team ACTS Raises 230,000 Lindens at Junkyard Blues

On Sunday night June 18, the Relay for Life team Team ACTS (Aether Chrononauts Tiny Steps) held a fundraising event at the Junkyard Blues club. OldeSoul Eldemar made the announcement in the Relay volunteer group.

Night falls across the bayou. The moon rises above a thin layer of clouds, illuminating the stage at the old blues joint. The Junkyard is ready, for 2 hours of amazing slow blues, presented by DJ Bard Wasp. Come hear him as he pours his heart and soul into the stream, presenting some of the best blues you've ever heard- everyone is welcome. Junkyard Blues (195,21,22)

And for every 1000 linden donation you get your choice of a home built by Bard himself.

Maybe it was Bard's offer to give people log cabin homes. But the donations kept coming and coming. Ninety minutes after the event started, the total raised was about 125,000 Lindens raised. Seven minutes later, it was up to 150,000. Ten minutes before the end, the kiosks had 183,000 donated in them. And when Bard got off the stage, his event had raised a total of 230,477 Linden dollars.

The event put Team ACTS into Sapphire status among the Relay teams. Only the Relay Rockers and Unmasking a Cure have higher totals. Following then are five Jade level teams: Team Shadow, Cure Chasers, Goreans in Relay for Life, Inspired Dreamwalkers, and Go the Distance. Then there are two Platinum ranked teams, Touched by Angels and TwoMoon Paradise Dreamers. And following those are the ten Gold level teams, of which in the middle is the Sunbeamer team, the team representing the community where the Newser office is.

Go Relay!

Bixyl Shuftan