It’s Day Four of the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis vs. Pearl Jam vs. Slog Holiday Charity Challenge! The challenge continues until we get a definitive answer to this very important question: Whose fans are the best fans? Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s fans? Pearl Jam’s fans? Or Slog’s fans?
The answer depends on whose fans raise the most money for YouthCare’s Orion Center, which provides food, shelter, safety, and alternatives to homeless teens right here in Seattle. And the Orion Center really does save lives:
@fakedansavage @PearlJam @macklemore @strangerslog Thanks Dan. This place saved my life as a kid. Makes me miss Seattle so much seeing this
— Nina Locachona (@NinaLocachona) December 5, 2013
For 40 years, YouthCare has been sending its employees out to the streets, bridges, and parks where homeless young people congregate. They offer these youth a chance at a stable life: daily hot meals, a clothing bank, shelter beds, GED classes, job training programs, and help finding permanent housing. These are our city’s exploited and forgotten young people: About 74 percent of those that YouthCare sees were physically or sexually abused at home, while 40 percent left home or were kicked out because of their sexuality. YouthCare and the Orion Center do important work—they save lives—and you can help save the Orion Center by making a donation to the Holiday Charity Challenge!
TOTAL $$$ RAISED SO FAR FOR THE ORION CENTER:
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans have donated: $9,182.00
• Pearl Jam fans have donated: $5,202.00
• Slog fans have donated: $2,450.00
TOTAL $$$ RAISED OVER FIRST THREE DAYS: $16,834.00
Because Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Pearl Jam are so awesome, they’re each offering two VIP tickets to their shows in Seattle this week! (Slog hasn’t offered up shit—yet! Slog shit is coming soon!) Pearl Jam play at KeyArena tomorrow, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are at KeyArena December 10–12. Donate to the Orion Center right now—any amount counts!—then forward us your receipt with why it’s so very damn important you’re at the show. Donate and forward by 4:30 pm today to enter. Winners announced here tomorrow morning!
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Pearl Jam fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Slog fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
The fans that raise the most for the Orion Center by December 24th WIN the title of the Best Fans of the Best Band Ever!
As always: Give at least $25 to the Orion Center right now, forward us your receipt and your commenter handle, and we’ll give you a commenter tag on Slog that says SLOG FAN, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FAN, or PEARL JAM FAN! Your choice!