Contest: Pushing 90
Everybody listen up: I HAVE AWESOME MATCH NEWS.
Bulletin #1: The Great And Powerful Asirda is so impressed (and touched) by your accomplishments thus far that she’s become inspired to increase the amount of her next match at 90K. We can still get 3K at 90 no matter what happens — BUT!
- if we hit 90K by midnight Friday EST, the match is 4K
- if we hit 90K by midnight Thursday EST, the match is 6K
- if we hit 90K by midnight Wednesday EST, the match is 8K
Wednesday is tomorrow. $83,106 right now. Just under 7K to go in…hmmm, about 30 hours. But if you can make that 7K in 30 hours, we get ANOTHER EIGHT GRAND. Three or four is great, six is awesome…I like eight. You like eight, Asirda likes eight, EIGHT IS ENOUGH. You have done this before, piece of cake. Cake is awesome! Now I’m just yelling stuff for fun! Yaaaaay!
But seriously: If you haven’t donated yet, please please consider donating now. If you haven’t told a friend about Donors Choose, or recommended a project to a friend or colleague, please do that today. If you haven’t used the ShareThis button to spread the word, take a minute and do that.
If you haven’t remembered lately that you’re awesome, I’d like to remind you. You’re awesome. I have some awe; it is for you; that’s how that goes. GET ‘ER DONE.
Bulletin #2: HP is prepared to spread around some $200,000 of their own — and the more money each giving page raises by October 25, the larger a piece of that pie that giving page will get. The Bet Red giving page can stomp them all, big and small, and we’ve got five days to show them how it’s done. And if we get that 8K, that would really help.
Don’t forget that signing up for even a teeny automatic donation on the Donors Choose page gets you a giving card; head over and click on “My Account” for more details (top o’ the page there). Better yet, get your friends to do it. Ask your wedding guests to do it. Hell, ask strangers to do it.
Let’s do it! 90K! Go go go go go!
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So I signed up for recurring donations, but I couldn’t find any links talking about the free gift card, and my confirmation email for the monthly donation doesn’t mention it. Did I do it wrong? I’ll call customer support if I need to…
roomba roomba roomba roomba!
Go Tomato Nation Go! I’ve been telling everyone I meet about it – and I’m at a conference of 30,000 people right now :)
It’s 10:34 PM and 1,000 to go. If we break 90K, that’ll be what, almost 7,000 in 7 hours? October is my favorite month.
The Roomba pushed me over the edge. I could so use one of those…$89,050 at 7:30pm PST on Tuesday!
Only $171 until 90k!!!!! SO….so so so DUSTY in here!
DUDES. WE ARE LIKE $700 SHY OF 90K.
My mind, it is blown. This is amazing. I wish I could afford to donate more than I have, but watching and knowing that my small contribution is part of this… it’s really, well, awesome.
OMG, you guys! We totally did it — we got to $90,000 tonight!
Also: My husband is now officially addicted to Bet Red — he even closed out a project tonight!
This? Amazing. We are soooo there, folks!
Sweet Fancy Moses, you guys! YOU GUYS. It is 10:45 EST, and I’ve just gone to check– $90, 120!!!
Holy fucking shit. This is insane. Insanely awesome.
Holy Moly! I literally checked the amount 88k or so, went and did laundry, came back and it was over 90k! How does that happen?? Awesome, that’s how. I cannot believe you guys!!
Are other people seeing the 90 too? I start to not believe my eyes, and my giddiness!
So, uh, HOLY SHIT, you guys. It’s not even midnight and we’re at $90,120. Um, AWESOME.
Holy freakin’ crap. We done did it!
90, y’all!
NIIIIIIIIIIINETEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Consider my words officially un-eaten.
…totally blown away by the Nation’s Awesomeness…. what projects have we funded to completion in this monster drive???? Looking forward to teacher thank yous…. although they seemingly coincide with an attack of the dust bunnies.
Not even 11 EST and we’re at $90k. Rock!
Incrementaly yet attainable goals paired with rewards are appparently the key.
Go Nation, go!
Hope you’ve got your dancing pants on, Academic, because we just blew that out of the water!! Holy crap, dudes!!
AAAAAAAAAGH WE DID IT! WE DID IT! 90,154 10:55 EST!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YEAH!!!
(okay, I’ll stop.)
I am simply in awe of everyone here. Congratulations.
I hope Asirda has her checkbook ready, because the goal has been met with a full 25 hours to spare! $90,365 at 11:09 pm Eastern.
I am seeing $90,145 at the moment, around 8:15PST.
I can’t give much, but will give what I can.
OMG $90K YOU GUYS. $90,365, to be precise. 799 donors.
I got back from the gym tonight and … this had happened. Way to go, ya’ll. I am so, so impressed, and proud to be a part of such an incredible group of people.
I just check and we are OVER 90 K PEOPLE! Go ‘maters!
And… I was so excited I forgot how to type. Please excuse my errors. :)
Wow… that drive was like $22 a minute…. DUSTY…. so so so DUSTY….
@Elizabeth: Oi, that’s my name! Do I need to pick a new one? Because I’m definitely not West Coast…
OMG you guys. seriously?!? I left work and did not check back in until just now. BANANAS! I mean awesome awesome bananas, but still.
… you guys basically took that out in the time it took me to get home from school. I was literally about to surf over and make another donation, but maybe I’ll wait for the next special challenge now! Because there will be one, right? I’m sure.
Had to check in before going to bed and – AWE. SOME.
I need to go take my contacts out now. Got some dust in ’em or something.
This is just exciting (and, though it goes without saying, AWESOME). In these trying economic times, so many denizens of the Tomato Nation have found it within themselves to give what they could spare, and then some, to kids and teachers and schools truly in need. Roombalicious!
My eyes are watering. Must be exhaustion. And dust. Yeah. That’s what it is. [sniffle]
I left my computer at 6 pm EST, when we were at about 85k. I refreshed when I got back in shortly after midnight, EST, thinking 86k would be great. Must be something dusty here too. Somehow we raised more than 5k in less than 5 hours. I feel like Thanksgiving has come early.
Do we get 10K if we make $90k by midnight Tuesday? Cause, I was thinking, maybe we’re due some extra credit? :)
@anotherkate: My confirmation email has this:
Thank you for signing up to make a lasting impact. You will be giving hundreds of high-need students access to learning.
We will charge $10.00 on the 17th of each month — starting on Oct 17, 2009. Visit your account at any time to cancel with 1 click, or change your settings:
You’ll get an email from us every month, letting you know that your automatic donation is available as credits in your account. You can then visit DonorsChoose.org at any time to choose a classroom project you care about and your credits will be applied automatically upon check-out.
You will receive your sign-up bonus, a $50 GivingCard to support a classroom project of your choice, within 30 days.
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If you don’t have that last line, you may want to call customer service.
Okay, so with THE GREAT AND POWERFUL ASIRDA’s help, it’s just a *smidge* more before we’re at 100k, right? We should be able to make that by the original Wednesday deadline, easy!
(snif) Damn dust.
It feels good to do what I can…but it feels AMAZING to be part of Tomato Nation’s Army of Awesome like this. You rule. Each and every one of you.
OMG- you guys are making me talk like Gossip Girl. I leave my computer for 10 hours and LOOK WHAT HAPPENS!!
The awesomeness of you all has me shameslessly crying. No dust storms. no allergies, just gobmacking amazement at what Tomato Nation is able to achieve.
If you need another challenge after this one, I vote for world peace or affordable healthcare (in the US, since the rest of the world seems to have figured it out).
I *heart* you all. Go Asirda. Go HP, go Sars, but mostly GO TOMATO NATION FOR BETTING RED!