On Sunday, October 19, 2008, over 15,000 people rolled out of bed in the wee hours of the morning to attend CHOC Walk. Of those 15,000 people, forty people were from the DTNtech marketing team! We strolled through Disneyland & Disney California Adventures with families who were touched by CHOC and the classic Disney characters.

With an initial goal to raise at least $500 for the CHOCWalk, I’m happy to say that we surpassed the goal and raised $2,000 in support of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County! Congratuations TEAM!!

Thank you all our supporters who came out to WALK and those who fundraised for this great cause. Amongst those walking in our team included Linh Ho, candidate for the City of Garden Grove Councilmember (check out http://www.votelinhho.com and remember to VOTE!!). The makeup of the group included Key Clubbers from Los Amigos High School, St. Callistus Church, CSULB, CHOC affiliates, and more! We were happy to see the team shirts we printed for other teams at the CHOC Walk, as we are all in this cause together. Thank you to FiveStars Dental, Royal Property Services, and OC BodyWorks for your additional contributions!

DTNtech stood out amongst the crowd in our Jade Green shirts, showing our team spirit for the Children’s Hospital of Orange County!

Each walker received a goodie bag with a fancy DTNtech water bottle, DTNtech tshirt and a CHOC shirt, $50 gift certificates, coupons, and pens inside DTNtech’s new “LIVE TO VOTE, VOTE TO LIVE” Go Green Tote Bag!

^^The DTNtech outreach “Live to VOTE, VOTE to Live” Bag!

Our spiffy new clear & clean DTNtech water bottles

Lucy, Dominic, and Scott model the shirt designed by Liz and printed by DTNtech (of course!)

Elisa is knocked out after the Walk; having to wake up at 5:30am on a Sunday can be grueling when you’re trying to balance a social youngperson’s life!

Here’s a pose by our main benefactors, Serena & David! A post-Walk celebration luncheon was hosted by the DTNtech team. It consisted of David’s famous steak, chicken, salmon, and spicy louisiana hot dogs with the right complements to them all!

Again, thanks to the forty team members who came out last Sunday. We try to be socially responsible and together, we make a difference!

Join the functionally creative DTNTECH team at DISNEYLAND for the 18th Annual CHOC Walk this year! Our Friends and Family are all welcome! We’ll be walking for a cause and would like to invite you to walk side-by-side with us and celebrate! We support CHOC and also work with them, and we gladly take this opportunity to show that support! So bring your friends, fellow organization members, family, etc. on October 19th.

INFORMATION:

WHAT: CHOC 5K Walk @ Disneyland Resort
WHEN: Sunday, October 19, 2008
TIME: 7:00AM-Opening Ceremony on Main Street (Disneyland); 7:15am - Walk Promptly Begins; DTNtech team will meet at 6:30AM at a Disneyland location TBA!
WHERE: Disneyland Resort & Disneyland California Adventure (Anaheim, California) before the parks open (Park Hopper special tickets on the day-of for $61 to enjoy the park after the CHOCWalk)

TO REGISTER:
1) Go to www.chocwalk.org and register under our team *DTNTECH MARKETING TEAM*
2) Raise or pledge at least $50 in order to get your wristband from Disney! Pledge ONLINE, drop off your pledge at DTNtech by Friday October 17, or at the CHOC registration office days before the walk. But you MUST do this before the day of the walk!
3) A DTNtech Rep will CHECK-IN and PICKUP CHOCWalk wristbands/tshirts for EVERYONE on the team, unless you choose to check-in yourself. You MUST check-in either ahead of time (week of the CHOCWalk) if you choose to do so individually.

Why Walk w/ Us:

1) Receive a team t-shirt to wear that day (printed by us, of course!) & a goodie bag
2) For those joining our team, DTNtech will provide lunch
3) $50 DTNtech Gift Certificates will be awarded to one representative per organization!
4) Come network & socialize with other companies and organizations!

CHOC asks: In order to help CHOC reach its goal of providing quality healthcare to the county’s one million children, CHOC Walkers pledge to raise a minimum of $50 to participate in the Walk. When a walker registers, they will have the option of donating $50 themselves or they may pledge to raise $50 to help CHOC accomplish its’ mission to nurture, advance and protect the health and well being of children. CHOC Walkers will have from August 1, 2008 to October 18, 2008 to raise $50.

For more information on joining DTNtech for the CHOCWalk, email liz@dtntech.com.

With our wide variety of clients from every sector from community service organizations to Fortune 500 corporations, us team members at DTNtech are proud to be affiliated with some of the outreaches our clients do. I’d like to rant a little bit about one of our clients from Portland, Oregon, who had done a missionary trip to build homes for the poor in Vietnam this past summer. After DTNtech had aided in designing and making their team t-shirts, the group from Lavang Parish were off to do a deed that will change lives.

The picture above is of a home in an actual village of B’Dor, a village so secluded and unknown that it’s not even on the map.

This is a home housing SEVEN people.

The Lavang team built homes for people in this village at a ridiculously affordable price of $600 per home (for materials, not including labor). After much fundraising and community support, they were able to build a few houses and will continue this mission again next year.

Building homes, giving rice to the local families, clothing and aid to the children, and making a presence in this small village were all part of the vision this group had.

Thanks for ROCKING those shirts and for doing good GLOBALLY.

If you are interested in more information or donating to this cause, email thao_nguyen_81@yahoo.com.

Do you have a cause or team or organization that you feel is worthy of being represented here on the DTNtech blog? Send us your pictures with your DTNtech shirts and blurbs about what you’re about to blog@dtntech.com! We’d love to hear what you’re doing!

Welcome to www.functionalcreativity.com! This is a new spawn from DTNtech marketing solutions, where we offer services in Promotional Products, Imprinted Apparel, and Print Media. I’ll explain later why it’s called functionalcreativity.com. But welcome welcome!

So we’re going to begin blogging here at DTNtech, sharing ideas, topics of interest, marketing pointers, our specials, or just to update you on how we’re doing. Feel free to comment, start discussions, and give your own input. We would LOVE to hear from you and get some interaction on our blog.