Flock Par-tay

Our friend turned us onto this hilarious, touching, and completely serious thing happening in town through May: the Austin Flamingo Project 2006 is an annual (well, second annual) fundraiser for Austin-based Planet Cancer, a community network that helps out young adults fighting cancer.

[The Austin Flamingo Project 2006]
[Planet Cancer]

From now through May, you can have them deliver a legion of twenty neon pink flamingos to a friend/foe/politician of your choosing. And by "deliver" we mean they'll plant the plastic birds in said recipient's front yard for three days.

Here's how it works, in their words:

To flock someone, you pay a small fee to send 20 lovely pink flamingos to the yard of another person or business, where they will roost for three days. The “flockee” can make the requested donation to have the flamingos fly away or they can pay a little extra to flock someone else—perhaps the original “flocker!”

Flock someone for their birthday. Flock someone to celebrate a new job or a new baby. Give a sick friend a chuckle with a surprise flocking. Or flock someone just so you can call them up and say, “FLOCK YOU!”

It's all in good fun, donations are 100% tax-deductible, and it's for a worthwhile cause.

The minimum requested donation for a proper flocking is $55, but for something like this that looks to require a significant amount of manpower, Austinist thinks you outta pitch in for a little bit more. Flockings are limited to Austin and Round Rock.

[Order a Flocking Online!]
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