Contest: Mini-Prize Hoedown!
Your mission today — during which we survey our domain from a lofty peak of $133,805 — is to knock off a few November-expiration projects before HP hands out those giving cards. Not sure which ones expire when? Please step over to Amanda, Intern And Tall’s beautiful spreadsheet, which you can sort.
My mission today is to clear out some of the remaining mini-prize loot before the main prizing phase starts next week. (Don’t forget to keep an eye on the main prizing page. We have a LOT of cool stuff, and I will update it again later today.)
What you have to do is send me a receipt from any/all of the projects below by midnight ET today (that’s bunting at tomatonation dot com). You could win a tank top; you could win a tote bag; you could win a DVD; you could win a Strawberry Shortcake doll; you could win something else entirely. You just won’t know unless/until you enter! (And don’t forget that the knitting mini-prize is still going; scroll down the homepage for info.)
Edited to add this bad boy to the prizing for today in honor of the nutritionally irresponsible hilarity in the comments. And if one of y’all doesn’t win it, the intern has to make an omelet out of it.
Ready? Go!
More Novel Reading (funded!)
Science Fair Project 2009 (funded!)
Can You Picture This? (funded!)
Waking Up Our Reading Skills with “Twilight”
Taking the Leap: Multimedia Learning for Students with Autism
Tags: contests Strawberry Shortcake
Good morning, starshine(s)! I went through and updated the spreadsheet about half an hour ago: we’re up to (at least) 416 completed projects!
I’ve also highlighted all the projects that expire on or before 16 November in dark green because dark green is a color that, in addition to being one of my favorites, both won’t clash terribly with the rest of the spreadsheet AND pleases my vanity by matching my eyes. (Today, anyway. They change.) There’s your fun fact for the day, I guess.
…And, yes, the earth says hello. … Shut up.
Er war Superstar/Er war popular/Er war so exaltiert/Because er hatte Flair!
No more caffeine for you!
I think the Intern has been smoking some Tomato Nation Awesomeness….
But Coke is the source of all my powers!
We breakfast on candy in this organization, young lady. Either you’re on the mini-Snickers, OR YOU’RE UNDER THE MINI-SNICKERS I don’t know what I’m talking about 9@jfnl2()*3 [urp].
Anyone else have any mysterious account credits in your DC account. One showed up in my account today for an amount I have not donated to any project in the last 2 months, and no email to accompany it? Oh well, I am sure Zach will tell me in short time. Just wondering if anyone else had one today and an email explaining. Good time for it to appear for the kids wanting to read the twilight books :)
First the sniffs, now the giggles…good thing my boss is tolerant, hehe. Coke and mini-snickers, breakfast of origawesome!!
You can have my daily bowl of Apple Jacks when you PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.
… As a note, all the projects that expire on or before the 16th – mind you, I have no idea when they’re actually going to disburse the cards, but I’m really hoping for Friday the 13th (since the lot of us running around with giving cards could really make it a teacher or ten’s lucky day) – have gone from needing just under $7000 all told to be completed to needing just under $6000 in about 12 hours. Nicely done, TN!
Science Fair Project 2009 FUNDED!!
@Char: Maybe it’s the HP cards already? That can’t be, though. Anyone else get these credits?
YOU can have your daily bowl of Apple Jacks IF YOU POUR SOME POP ROCKS ON ‘EM FIRST.
Because you know what we don’t need around here? Teeth. Ask the Hobe.
@Charmaine did you sign up for the automatic monthly donation? Maybe the credits are from that?
@Shannon, I did but the $50 is long gone and the first withdrawl isn’t until the 17th of November, and this was for $22.88 a really wierd amount.
OMG that new “bad boy” prize for today has my name all over it!!!!
Is anyone else having problems forwarding emails to bunting at tomatonation dot com? My email has been trying to send it for a week with no luck. The error message says “The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect.”
Pop Rocks + Coke + Apple Jacks = Breakfast of Champions! And possible death.
(In all honesty, I had… hummus for breakfast. And pita. I figure, well, your stomach can’t tell time…)
Down to just under $5600 to fund all
119 projects expiring before the 17th. Should be interesting to see where we’re at when I get home from work.…Ugh, just read the edit. Somebody go win the taffy; I hate candy corn.
@Charmaine, if you donated to a project that expired without being fully funded, you may be getting your donation returned in the form of of a credit.
Are all of the Amazing Intern names coming from a list somewhere that you spent hours composing at some point or are you making them up on the spot? Either way, color me amused.
O chameleon-named intern, hast thou a website/blog where we might read more of your writing?
‘Cause yer funny.
“Can You Picture This” is now funded!
Ummmm, you guys? The TN Bet Red page is up to $263K now?!!?? Last I checked, we were at like 133ish, and then of course there’s the $86K from HP. But where did the extra $44k come from? Is that just new donations from today? Because if so: omg, awesome.
As the DC Bet Red says our total is over $263,800 – I’m guessing the HP money has been added in?
That math doesn’t look right to me; let me inquire.
On the other hand: EEEEEEEEEEE!
Yeah, seriously, holy heart attack! $263,784! (I agree about the math, Sars, but still…. day-um!) :D
Ho-leeee cow, I just saw the widget with the $200K+ amount for the first time. Nation rules.
“Can you Picture This now?” is funded. Whooo!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE is right, I just fell off my chair!
If the $263K figure is right, that means there needs to be an ULTRA-ultra-challenge of about $300K, right? No point in coasting… (c:
I wonder if the extra, more-than-we-expected funds are from HP calculating their percentages without including their own earlier donations. If I read their info correctly, they started out by donating some small amount to every last challenge page–and in a lot of cases, that’s all or the majority of what those pages have raised. If you took those donations out, the mighty mighty tomato percentage could be significantly higher than we’d been figuring.
Or, y’know, maybe Asirda is even greater and more powerful than we realized! Also a very real possibility!
Wha? On the main Blogger Challenge page, none of the other groups have had that kind of a jump. And many of then are still showing “last donation X days ago.” So it may not even be the HP donation.
Did somebody fabulous (and fabulously wealthy) hit us with a match of the whole amount we’d already raised?
I think perhaps the extra money is still from HP… the way I read this http://blog.donorschoose.org/blog/2009/10/20/hp-contributes-250000-to-the-social-media-challenge/
It looks like HP Was donating $250,000. 43% of that is $107,500… and that plus the 135,000 I believe we were at earlier makes sense… right? Also? Lets’ go for $300,000!!!!
Also… ignore me I apparently can’t read… But… it just made so much sense! Damnit!!
ZOMG. $263K? I die!
Holy mother of freshly sharpened pencils, where did that huge boost come from? If the funders remain anonymous I shall choose to believe it manifested itself from the sheer power of Awesome.
$263,784? In the manner of the old farmer watching a UFO from his front porch, “What in the…”
Geez awesome… way to give me a heart attack by looking at the totals…. still shell-shocked by the sight of $264,658…. and it got REALLY dusty here.
I saw that figure before I got a chance to read the previous posts and almost fell off the couch. Wow, indeed.
Love the idea of finishing those early November posts and course any and all HP credits will be contributed towards the remaining projects.
@Vanessa: don’t worry, got a firm eye on the trikes, they’ll get them if it’s the last thing I do.
This most amazing of all nations has just finished 421 projects as of about an hour ago. Yepeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
@intern of lore: flawless German in there, congratulations!
On a different note: the big project might also be helped by giving it some visibility, as in very small donations from lots of people. That way it’ll climb the popularity page and other might be moved to help it along. It sure deserves the chance and the sooner we get it up there the more people see it. So off to take my own advice.
And here’s the missing link:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=279669&challengeid=23248
Wow, less than $4500 to go to finish all the “imminent deadline” projects…awesome!
Apparently HP thought so much of our awesomeness that they decided to kick in another 50K :) Either way, more books, more desks, more trombones, more smiling kids!!!!
And a tomato will soon be betting red in Atlantic City!!!
I mean, holy sweet mother of kittens, $264,715. I just. That is so much money. That is almost as much as the WHOLE social media challenge raised all together last year. Holy crap! By the way, yesterday at this time, the total for the whole challenge was around 300k. Now it’s 559k. So *something* happened, in more than one place.
Like all of you, I want to know where all that money came from – the math seems wrong and it isn’t like that many projects just got funded.
But I just saw we’re at 997 donors! We can drag 3 more donors into this – I’m going to go harass some friends…again.