+Havaball Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I often organize blood drives and I also enjoy geocaching. I was thinking of combining the two and having a blood drive event cache. Do you think this would be a good idea? I really don't want to plan it and have no one show up so I thought I would test the waters and see if any one else thinks this might work. Quote Link to comment
+tollerdudes Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Thats an interesting idea, I think it is a good one, however it might be considered a commercial cache. I would check with a reviewer in your area. Cheers. Quote Link to comment
+palmetto Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 A blood drive event would fall under the "caches which solicit" guideline. Which isn't to say it couldn't be listed, but the place to start is contact@geocaching.com. They might well allow it, but it would need to be their call, it's not something a reviewer could list without Groundspeak review. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#solicit Quote Link to comment
BRTango Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Hmmm... position the blood donation stations around a large park and have people use their GPSr to find a station. After they donate the blood they have to hunt for the orange juice and the cookies as well That could be fun, especially for those who get really woozy after donating blood. They'd be stumbling around the woods, some of the passing out. It could really make things interesting. Make sure you bring a camera j/k by the way!! Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Hmmm... position the blood donation stations around a large park and have people use their GPSr to find a station. After they donate the blood they have to hunt for the orange juice and the cookies as well That could be fun, especially for those who get really woozy after donating blood. They'd be stumbling around the woods, some of the passing out. It could really make things interesting. Make sure you bring a camera j/k by the way!! I can see the logs now... "Took: Cookies. Left: Blood." Just don't hide the cookies too well, you'll have geocachers fainting all over the place! Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Do like one company did... trying to be socially-concious and offer employees fun outdoor activities throughout the complex. Both of these admirable elements were driven home one day when a voice over the loudspeaker boomed "Everyone who signed up to donate blood, please report to the rifle range!" Quote Link to comment
BRTango Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Do like one company did... trying to be socially-concious and offer employees fun outdoor activities throughout the complex. Both of these admirable elements were driven home one day when a voice over the loudspeaker boomed "Everyone who signed up to donate blood, please report to the rifle range!" Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Do like one company did... trying to be socially-concious and offer employees fun outdoor activities throughout the complex. Both of these admirable elements were driven home one day when a voice over the loudspeaker boomed "Everyone who signed up to donate blood, please report to the rifle range!" did that really happen? Quote Link to comment
+GRANPA ALEX Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 IMO . . . any cache that is placed is a good cache! To ask/demand donation of anything in order to log a find is not gonna be acceptable, as caches published must be open to all seekers, even those who want to withhold . . . so, this demand of blood would not be an owner perogative on the cache page. You could very well note on the cache page that the option to donate blood will be on-site and friends are encouraged to participate, some might be happy to do so - not me, but some. Quote Link to comment
+gof1 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Do like one company did... trying to be socially-concious and offer employees fun outdoor activities throughout the complex. Both of these admirable elements were driven home one day when a voice over the loudspeaker boomed "Everyone who signed up to donate blood, please report to the rifle range!" Would you mind if I print this for my wife to take to work? She is a Red Cross Donor Specialist, she draws the blood. I have been known to introduce her as my blood sucking wife, but not before dinner. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 ... That could be fun, especially for those who get really woozy after donating blood. They'd be stumbling around the woods, some of the passing out. It could really make things interesting. j/k by the way!! Don't we ALL do that anyway? Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 People with blood-borne pathogens could not donate (in good conscience). If they go but refuse to donate, then they put themselves in the awkward position of having people wonder...is it squeemishness, or is it AIDS? Quote Link to comment
+halffast Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 I would attend but I dont like the site of blood.Especially my own. Quote Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#solicit "Caches that Solicit Solicitations are off-limits. For example, caches perceived to be posted for religious, political, charitable or social agendas are not permitted. Geocaching is supposed to be a light, fun activity, not a platform for an agenda." Quote Link to comment
+Docapi Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 I just have to ask- What would the difference between this cache and the one being discussed HERE be? Both are not-for-profit organizations, and the "donation" is avoidable in both. Actually, it is easier to avoid the donation in this one- just don't do it. In this one, it is just a donation- in the other one, it is a "fee". In this thread, the posters are convinced beyond any doubt that it is not allowed, but in the other one they are just as convinced that that cache is. I don't understand that. It seems to me that the reasons that are stated in the other thread for that cache to be allowed are just as applicable to this suggestion, and the problems stated in this thread would apply just as easily to the other thread. If this cache is not allowed, theI don't understand why the other one is, and if the other one is allowed, then I dont see why this one would not be. Quote Link to comment
+palmetto Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Hi Docapi - the cache in the original post of that long thread is in a State Park system. It's not a for profit commercial location. Also, the original poster somewhat misrepresents it as "$5 per find" when it's $5 to enter the park. The fee has nothing to do with hunting or not hunting caches. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#commercial ....Examples include for-profit locations that require an entrance fee.... Bold emphasis mine in this sentence from the listing guidelines section. Caches in city, county etc. park systems that have entry or parking fees are okay. In this topic the original poster asks about a blood drive event cache. That would be soliciting for a charity. It might be listed, but only hrough direct permission from Groundspeak (contact@geocaching.com would be the way to ask about it). Again, caches that solicit are a guidelines violation and cannot be listed by the volunteers who review caches for the website. We have to apply the guidelines. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#solicit Quote Link to comment
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