Comments on: Contest: Dealt

By: Former Queen of the Interns

Former Queen of the Interns — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:08:43 +0000

And at last, the love letter! You can read it here. I'm only five months late!

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:47:08 +0000

Thank you to HP and to Sars, the very happy Intern and the rest of the tomato nation community for being so inspiring. Not even to mention the students and teachers. Time to find some projects to fund.

By: LaSalleUGirl

LaSalleUGirl — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:14:11 +0000

My HP giving card arrived in my inbox today! I'm having a pretty crappy week, let me tell you, but I'm feeling so much better now that I've picked out a bunch of projects to fund.

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:52:37 +0000

Yes, and I donated to a teacher today and it gave me a check box on the payment page that said something like "this donation was inspired by the tomatonation giving page" by checking gives dollar total to this giving page! Well, of course. So I guess we can keep adding to the total

By: Rabrab

Rabrab — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:35:25 +0000

What I love is that Donor's Choose has left up the whole Social Media Challenge set of pages, and that at 12:30 am Eastern Time on November 3rd, Tomato Nation Bet Red is showing its most recent donation as "6 hours ago" while all the others are at least "2 days ago". We just don't know how to stop, do we?

By: DAC

DAC — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:18:39 +0000

Another touching thank you. The "unbelievable generosity" was for a $500 project that was matched, so the final cost to us was around $5 per kid.

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I can't begin to thank you enough for your generosity. This has been a tough year for our program. With funding down and interest up we were worried we wouldn't have materials for projects to do with the kids. This was magnified during our first meeting last week when almost 30 new students showed up wanting to join the program! Keep in mind this is an inner-city school where it is not considered cool to stay after school, let alone for engineering! But they filled every seat in the room for 2 hours after school. You have given us hope. We never thought we'd have access to this kind of material. Our program can look forward to taking on a whole new module now, which is integral to the engineering design process: modeling and prototyping.

Your kindness is doing more than just giving students materials for learning. It is showing kids the importance of giving back, that there are those who believe in what they are doing and who support their dreams. Thank you again for your unbelievable generosity. It is making a difference in the lives of some truly wonderful kids.

By: Emerson

Emerson — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:25:53 +0000

Ditto on that happy birthday! And again: wow.

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:08:41 +0000

As a teacher in an under-funded Brooklyn school, Donor's Choose has done a lot for my classroom and others in my school. Thank you for your support to the teaching community.

By: Claire

Claire — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:10:05 +0000

@Liz C: I know! Not only did it make me feel better about the state of humanity, it was also a very worthy homework-break.

By: Liz C

Liz C — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:58:07 +0000

I didn't realize how addicted I'd become to checking the totals every few hours!