Contest: Let the mini-prizing begin!
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on October 1, 2009 – 8:34 AM17 Comments
The lovely and generous Jennifer M. has donated three (3) $10 iTunes gift cards for use in the contest. Does one of them have your name on it? Let’s find out!
Donate to any music-based project on the contest page, and forward me your receipt, by 8 PM ET — instruments, sheet music, marching-band projects, all eligible. If it’s a math project with the word “music” in the title, that counts too.
Remember, you can win more than one mini-prize; you can win a mini-prize AND win contest loot, too. Duplicate receipts = no problem. If you donate to a music-based project between now and when primetime starts on the east coast, forward me that receipt and you could win.
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I just wanted to say that I’m so pleased to see the Tucson Love in the Time of Cholera project on the list. I had intended to send that suggestion, and I’m glad someone else did! I had held off on giving a second donation in case it made the TN list. Now that it has, I’ll be pulling out the check card again…..
Whoo! $6K!! Go day shift!
$7,730 so far — raise that much every day, and we’ll blow past $210K. “Guys like us don’t change, Saul. We either stay sharp or we get sloppy — we don’t change.” Looks like we’re staying sharp!
Is there any way to sort the projects within Bet Red?
Am I the only who is amazed that over $9K has been raised and the first day is not even over yet?
I’m well aware that things will slow down after the initial excitement, but whoo boy, can you imagine maintaining a pace of $10,000 a day?
$10,000! and 43 projects completed thus far.
Is anyone else having trouble with the DC site? Twice now, I’ve tried to donate and by the time I got to the payment screen (about 30 minutes), each project I chose was funded already.
High traffic is probably to be expected today; again, please email smc at donorschoose dot org with these tech issues when they arise, because I’m usually in the back end and don’t see the same problems you guys will.
In the meantime, picking projects with plenty of money left, or which aren’t on the first few pages, might help avoid donatus interruptus of this sort.
To quickly get to the bottom of the list for projects with little to no funding, you can use this link: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?page=24&id=23248&category=109&max=25
or
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?page=23&id=23248&category=109&max=25
To do it manually, down at the bottom choose to see 25 projects per page, then in your address bar adjust the # after page=
Right now funded projects start showing up on page 24 in the 25 projects/page view. SO each day that number will need to be adjusted.
Yeeeeeee haw!
p. s. new Simon’s Cat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOHvZjiDANg&et=1254428763.92
I’d also like to see some sort of way to sort projects within the challenge…it would make the mini-prize challenges much easier. Is there some way to do this now that I’m missing, or can DC hook us up at some point?
@Heather: I agree, but there is currently no way to sort the projects within a giving page. No sort, no search.
Usually, I direct you guys to a specific project for the mini-prizes, so it isn’t ordinarily as big of a hassle to find the project(s) in question as this one might be. But the DC brain trust is aware that this is at the top of the nav wish list.
Is it going to get done this month? No, probably not. I’ll try to do the legwork for y’all where I can.
@Sars Thanks for replying on this post and the previous about not being able to search within the challenge. I remembered this from last year and had hoped they changed the format and I just wasn’t seeing it.
But the plus to this way is that one gets sucked into so many (lined paper for pity’s sake and there’s another trike request) that one can’t put on blinders and just hit the few one was aiming for.
boy, that previous paragraph came out a lot more awk than I hoped.
The use of the word “awk” more than made up for any actual awk, of which I didn’t see much. Then again, I’m on about 12 hours’ cumulative sleep for the week, so I’m getting my mail at awk at this point.
Fair enough, Sars…I’m excited enough about bringing the Awesome that I’ll scroll through some pages. Thanks for answering, and don’t stress about it. (And get some sleep, woman! Sheesh!)
Aaaand we just hit 200 donors!
Awesome.