Off-Line support and wonderful grass roots campaign for Our Kickstarter

Hi All,

We want to share this wonderful grassroots campaign for The Jōst Project (and especially Uncle Tony!)

 

Marisa Camille Evola, 14, saw on her uncle’s facebook page that he was raising money for his band. So, Marisa or “Risa” as evey one calls her immediately went into action and set up a bake sale for the front on her parents’ pizza shop in Medford, NJ – La Bella Pizza, 199 Crosswords Plaza 1, Medford Lakes, NJ – www.labellapizzamedford.com.

 

 

For two Fridays now – and for the next two Fridays (their busiest night) – Risa has been standing outside selling homemade brownies, chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes and Rice Krispie snacks. Her parents and her grandfather, Tony’s dad, promised to match whatever funds she raises. So far, in two weeks, Risa has raised $207. She even made a tee shirt to wear saying The Jōst Project on the front and My Uncle Tony Rocks on the back!

In addition, one of the Friday nights when she didn’t sell out, Risa drove around their neighborhood in a golf cart with posters all over it selling leftovers!

I’ll tell you, We’d have Risa on my team any day!

These next two weeks, Mary Jo (Risa’s mum) hopes to put a jar out asking patrons to give $1 for each pizza sold.

WOW this is great, we love this sort of grass roots campaign. This is the true beauty of crowd funding, the support that we have had from you all is overwhelming  The jazz media on both sides of the Atlantic have picked it up, we even hit the radio in Holland (see update #8)

We now have 11 days to go and need to translate all this support into pledges. Keep spreading the word and let’s all make this happen.

Once again thanks to all our 78 wonderful backers. It’s great to have you behind us.

All the best
Paul, Kevin and Uncle Tony
PS, If you are in the Medford (NJ) area and feel like Pizza. Go to:

La Bella Pizza,
199 Crosswords Plaza 1
Medford Lakes, NJ

If not, like their Facebook page and tell them how great they are.
https://www.facebook.com/NJLaBellaPizza