Julie Gumm - Author

Giving away my iPad AND a $50 gift card

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It’s been 12 days since I announced that I was giving away my iPad to raise money for The Adventure Project’s health campaign.

So far I’ve raised $996 of my $5,000 goal.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who has donated. I am blessed by your generosity and it will make a huge impact! Literally. Your gifts will train and equip 6 Ugandan women as healthcare promoters. Each of them impacts 700 people. That’s 4,200 Ugandans who will now have access to affordable meds that will SAVE LIVES!

The iPad drawing is at midnight tomorrow (AZ time which is 3am ET). So far there are only 37 names. That means if you give $25 you would have a 1 in 38 chance of winning an iPad. Seriously dude – those are some awesome odds!

But I’m sweetening the pot because I want to reach my goal. I know not everyone can do $25. So I’ll do a separate drawing for a $50 gift card to either Starbucks, iTunes or Amazon (winner’s choice) for a donation of ANY amount. Because little donations matter and can add up to huge impact. (Winner draw date TBD.)

Go here to GIVE.

*If you give $25 or more you are entered in the iPad drawing only. I want to make it far to those giving for the gift card drawing.

Great music – great price!

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I have pretty much ditched iTunes when it comes to purchasing music. I still use it to manage my music but with their unique song formats it becomes a pain when I want to load a song onto one of the kids mp3 players.

Instead I’ve been using Amazon.com to buy and download mp3s, then import into iTunes. First, all their songs are .99 – can’t say the same for iTunes.

Second, they have AWESOME deals if you keep any eye out.

Like this one. Audrey Assad’s new album (yes, the WHOLE thing) for $2.99. I discovered Audrey Assad for the first time last winter when I heard “Winter Snow” on Chris Tomlin’s Christmas album. I pretty much listened to it on repeat all Christmas season.

Love this album. Of course I was impatient and bought it when it first released. I’m appeasing my guilt by passing the great deal on to you. I think it’s for today only, so hurry!

If you want to get notified of great deals, follow Amazon Mp3 on Twitter.