BlackBerryForums.com Gives Back to the Community

Over the past two months, the people over at BlackBerryForums, the sister site of BlackBerryNews, have been rallying to raise funds to help out two very special members of the online BlackBerry community who have had faced hardships of a differing nature.

Audit’s House

On the 8th of June, a storm ripped through Michigan damaging the house belonging to John, known to BlackBerryForums as Audit and throughout the BlackBerry community as the upkeeper of DataOutages.com. With windows blown out and water rushing in, the house and John’s belongings didn’t fair too well. To make matters worse, John is facing health problems right now making it hard to him to deal with family, work, the house, and DataOutages.

Thankfully, a BlackBerryForums moderator, JSanders, started a thread calling on people to donate to help out the great man who has given so much to our community. Following this example ezrunner and troydbrown were inspired to create a challenge in which ezrunnerwould not post for 14 days if $250 was raised for John. (Prizes were graciously donated by both ezrunner and Zerog64 to be given at random to two donors.)

Not keen to see ezrunner go, Horizon Wireless started a campaign to save ezrunner from being banned which netted $220. This was followed by LunkHead, who created an auction for his BlackBerryForums edition Fortte case which brought in $100 from hnsimpson.

All of the support has helped raise over $3,000 for John. If you would like to help out John (if not for his house but for the invaluable service that DataOutages provides) and have even a dollar to spare, please click the PayPal button at the bottom of DataOutages or send a donation directly to paypalus@dataoutages.com

Dawg’s BlackBerry

Dawg had a terrible day when his BlackBerry 8130 fell off the hood of his Jeep at 60 miles per hour and was promptly run over by 10 cars (“YAY!” to Atlanta traffic). But in the true spirit of BlackBerryForums, Cory Scheuer set up a donation drive to get the “BlackBerry God” a new phone (please note that Dawg has the most posts on the forum for a non-BBF staff member).

But after enough money was raised for the phone, people kept on giving. This was largely due to Horizon Wireless donating money to the cause AND offering to match the outstanding funds dollar for dollar. These additional funds are to be sent to a charity of Dawg’s choice, which will aiding in the curing of cancer!

BlackBerryNews and BlackBerryForums would like to thank everyone who was involved and contributed to these efforts. Outstanding job, people!
Written by BlackBerryForums.com user MikeyPants (Previous BlackBerryNews Writer)