Tree idea

I have an idea. I'm not sure how to go about doing it though. I've had about 6 people contact me wanting me to start a donation site where friends of my mom can go donate money to purchase a tree. Some of her friends think it would be a nice gesture for us to purchase a tree and plant it in my moms memory so that it can grow strong and always be a symbol of her life here.

I think it's a wonderful idea. BUT, I don't know the first thing about setting up websites. lol Soooooooo, anyone that's good in this dept. please contact me and let me know what my options are here. I'd like to set it up somehow to where I don't have direct access to it or whatever so that it can be proven that all the money actually went towards buying a tree. I'd like to set it up to where a picture of the tree can be shown on the site along with some pictures of my mom.

And just FYI, once it's up and running (if it happens that is) I'm going to send out an email and let everyone know it's there. BUT, the program I have to mass email sends to every single address in my book... and theres a few on there that 1. I don't care to talk to anymore and 2. Have no affiliation with me or my family...
I have a lot of people in my addy book that I've emailed for this or that years ago and their names are still in it.... sooooooo..

task #2 that I need help with is someone that knows the ins and out of Gmail to tell me how to reduce my address book before I send out this email. lol

Does all this even make sense?

Anyway.... anyone that can help me, you know I'd appreciate it.

I luv you guys.

=)