A Good Deed in a Troubled World

It’s hard to believe that we have been at war with Iraq since 2003. It doesn’t make the front pages as often as it used to, but never the less American soldiers have given up their American way of life, their homes and families to obey their orders. Our friends at the Carolina Sauce Company, www.Carolinasauce.com have been warming up the troops and will continue to do so as long as they can afford. We chile heads have been called to duty. Everyone has opinions about the war, whether right or wrong. Our fellow Americans did not ask to turn their lives upside down. Please continue reading and help put a smile on our troops faces.

Operation Sauce Drop

The mission of Operation Sauce Drop is to deliver delicious sauces, and perhaps a little taste of home, to U.S. military personnel stationed abroad, at absolutely no cost to them whatsoever. One hundred percent of all donations received will be used solely to pay for the cost of the gift boxes and shipping to the troops, and we MATCH 100% of all donations. To learn more, or to make a donation, or if you’re in the Military and would like to sign up for a free gift box of sauce, please visit Operation Sauce Drop. If you can’t afford to make a donation but want to help, then please spread the word about Operation Sauce Drop by posting the link on blogs, discussion groups, websites etc., and emailing or telling anyone you know who might be interested.

A lot of this is a cut and paste from the Carolina Sauce Company web site, but I want to get the word out to as many sauce lovers as possible!

***Carolina Sauce MATCHES 100% of all donations!!***

The mission of Operation Sauce Drop is to deliver great-tasting sauces to US military personnel stationed abroad, free of charge. Why are we doing this? Because we would like to thank our brave troops for their sacrifices with a small token of our appreciation, and perhaps a taste of home. We have assembled seven different themed gift boxes of sauces, from mild and zesty to hot and fiery, from which any serviceman or servicewoman stationed at an APO or FPO address may choose, and we will ship their choice of gift box to their APO or FPO address at absolutely no cost to them whatsoever.

The average cost to purchase and ship (with insurance) a gift box is around $20.00.

You can also contribute to Operation Sauce Drop through our online store using MasterCard, Visa, Discover Card or PayPal, by clicking on the “Donate Here” link below and selecting a donation amount. If you prefer to contribute by phone, simply call us at 919-286-1080 and we can accept payment using Visa, MasterCard or Discover Card. To donate to Operation Sauce Drop by mail, please send a check or money order payable to “Carolina Sauce Company”, include the notation “Operation Sauce Drop”, and mail the check to our address shown on the Info page.

You can also support Operation Sauce Drop by purchasing any of the delicious products listed in our special section, “Shop Here to Support Operation Sauce Drop”, made possible by the generosity of manufacturers who have donated these products to raise funds for Operation Sauce Drop.

If you are a member of the armed forces and have an APO or FPO address, or if you would like a member of the armed forces with an APO/FPO address to receive a gift box, just click on the “Military Sign-Up” link below to select a gift box and enter the shipping address. Gift boxes will be shipped once a week on a “first come, first serve” basis, or as sufficient contributions are received to cover the cost of the gift box and shipping via USPS Priority Mail Insured. Please select only 1 gift box per recipient, so that as many military personnel as possible have a chance to receive a free gift box.

Operation Sauce Drop is a nonprofit program of Carolina Sauce Company. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of all donations are used SOLELY to pay for the gift boxes *at cost* and ship them to our troops. Please understand that Operation Sauce Drop is not a 501(c)(3) organization because the amount of red tape, paperwork, filing fees, legal and CPA expenses involved in trying to obtain official IRS tax-exempt status is prohibitive to a small family business like Carolina Sauce Company. However, Carolina Sauce Company does not make any money from Operation Sauce Drop – in fact, we donate a portion of the cost of each gift box and all the labor involved, AND as of July 4, 2008, Carolina Sauce is MATCHING 100% of all donations received. Please consider making a donation to this nonprofit effort, no matter how small – every little bit helps send a little taste of home to deployed servicemen and women. If you are unable to make a monetary donation at this time, but want to do something to help, then please tell your friends about Operation Sauce Drop, post the link on your blog or website or message board, and help spread the word so that we can send free sauce to as many military service personnel as possible. Thank you!

Statistics as of 10/14/08
Number of Gift Boxes shipped: 223
Waiting List for Gift Boxes: 48 Troops*
Number of Donors: 97 (plus anonymous contributors to a cash donations jar)
Number of “Repeat” Donors (donated 2 or more times): 9
Most Requested Gift Box: North Carolina Gift Box

*When you donate to Operation Sauce Drop, you help this number go down.

Check out the latest Operation Sauce Drop Feedback and Photos!

Donate Here

Military Sign-Up Here

Shop Here to Support Operation Sauce Drop