Contest: Saturday Night Special (and all day too)
Good morning, friends! $113,146! Enjoying some cartoon/cereal/pajama time? “Enjoying” some errands? Yeah, me too. Headed to the post office in a sec to send out a bunch of prizes to you, the awesomely host.
Don’t forget: the more money we can raise by Sunday, the higher our percentage of the Social Media Challenge total — and the higher our percentage, the more money the Bet Red page receives from HP! AND if we raise 120K by Sunday night, Asirda swoops in on her wings of justice with another 5K!
I’m shouting! And making Asirda swoop! And putting a defenseless infant in a foam vegetable outfit! What do you need to do? (Besides get some earplugs. Sorry, dudes; I had candy corn for breakfast and it’s a sugar-psycho twitch-athon over here right now. 93rup 9a879&A#!)
Okay, seriously:
1) You need to donate to any Bet Red project(s) you’d like between now and Sunday at 11:59 PM ET. Forward me the receipt, and you could win one of four (4) $25 gift certificates to CB2, Brooklyn Industries, or Fred Flare.
2) You need to forward and share TN and this entry to/with a bunch of your friends and family members. Stop juuuuust short of annoying them, though.
3) If you haven’t donated yet, you need to think about doing it this weekend. Why? Because anyone who makes his/her first 2009 donation to Bet Red during this weekend could win one of two (2) $50 gift certificates to one of the merchants listed above.
You can make a difference, with $5 or $500. All of us together can make that difference — can, have, do, will. Action verbs! Other action verbs you might like: win; spend.
Questions? Ask. Giving cards? Use. Specific Bet Red projects? Suggest. Goal? HIT IT WITH YOUR SHOE.
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I wish to suggest this project because, first, the write-up of the project is awesome. Second, yours internly was a lab monkey during college and I heard about some variation on this scenario playing out a LOT from the students in the College of Education. It’s got slightly more than $200 to go and I think we can crush that amount in a pretty short time, don’t you? You totally do. Dance, my pretties! Dance!
My shout outs for the day!
For everyone who cares about military families, and heck for anyone who has family that doesn’t live in the same town….these kids need cameras to send photos to loved ones that are deployed http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=285274&challengeid=23248
and the desks that were mentioned yesterday, how can you learn with no place to sit! http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=303256&challengeid=23248
@Sars–candy corn breakfast, it doesn’t get any better than that!
I put my giving card towards this proposal. It’s very well thought out, and there’s a real need here to help a teacher who’s clearly putting thought and effort into bringing innovation into her curriculum: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=297612&challengeid=23248 I’d love to see this get done this weekend!
Projects Near & Dear:
Deaf Kids Read Too! http://tinyurl.com/deafkids
Dear Dad or Mom (kids of deployed soldiers) http://tinyurl.com/deardad
Can You Picture This? (more kids of soldiers) http://tinyurl.com/canyoupic
We All Have a Ball in Health Class http://tinyurl.com/weallhave
I Need a Place to Sit! http://tinyurl.com/placetosit
Pump it Up! Part 1 (Girls’ fitness) http://preview.tinyurl.com/pumppart1
To Be or Not to be Obese (PE supplies) http://tinyurl.com/tobeornot
Student Desk (more kids w/out desks!) http://tinyurl.com/studentdesk
School Supplies Amount to Success (one of M. Edium’s picks, mention his name if you donate!) http://tinyurl.com/suppliesamount
My only regret is that I can’t give to them all, but I’m off to hit a few. With my shoes.
Umm… sorry … that’s a broom I’m swooping around on.
Off to donate again…
I am a sucker for this project: All Are Welcome! http://bit.ly/2xD5zm It’s a proposal for an accessible playground for Special Needs Children in WV and the teacher has recruited Eagle Scouts to help as well.
I’m also a fan of this one: Stuff a Sock In It! http://bit.ly/5NP4O The teacher in MS is literally sticking a sock in the overhead projector so that it can work. She’d like an LCD one which will ostensibly not require clothing to function.
These kids need pens, graph paper, and calculators:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=287862&challengeid=23248
One Laptop at a Time, Part I is a favorite of mine. http://bit.ly/3l8PHz
And earlier this week it was eligible for a mini-prize, too, so there’s that… http://bit.ly/1wok4a
I am off to donate to this project: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=302774&challengeid=23248
The teacher needs those black & white marble composition books – using those in middle school is what started my lifelong habit of journaling. Plus this project will reach 360 students!
And I like this one – for copies of “Number the Stars”
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=300042&challengeid=23248
I’d like to suggest this project:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=298917&challengeid=23248
It’s from a teacher who would like some copies of Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” for her students. In particular, this part of her description touched me:
“I’m sure that you can think of a book that you’ve read in school that has touched your life in some way, maybe it was Night by Elie Wiesel even.”
I was given the opportunity to read “Night”in high school, and it is still one of the most powerful stories that I’ve ever read. This project doesn’t have any donations yet. As a student, I don’t have a lot of extra funds but I’ll be getting my spare change together to make a donation to this project.
Congrats on your great work so far everyone, BET RED!
Sars, you’re so cute when you’re manic.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=283570&challengeid=23248
I am a supporter of this because kids with disabilities should have a place to play safely.
Hey, the technology project I linked to got funded! Thanks, guys!
This is apropos of nothing in particular, but – $114,000 donated, and 906 donors? Is that accurate? Because according to my calculations, that means that each individual donor donated an average of $125. That is a huge amount of money, ‘specially in this here economy. Go team Sars!
What great suggestions. Am on my way to contribute to a few of them..and “my fair intern”s suggestion is FUNDED.
I wanted to just suggest one from a wonderfully dedicated teacher, I love her projects and what she does for special needs kids.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=285044&challengeid=23248
$95 to study the American Dream with “Nickel and Dimed” and “Death of a Salesman.”
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=302720&challengeid=23248
We’re over $115K now, less than $5K to go until $120,000!
$115,000! Go Nation! We can totally make $120,000 by tomorrow if we keep this up. I really need to see Master S in that tomato costume.
We got a nice shout-out in the thank you letter from this teacher, who’s gotten 8(!) projects funded in the last two weeks!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=329561&challengeid=23248
I think I need to go buy a couple copies of “Night.” Thanks @Brittany!
Nom, candy corn for breakfast. Yay, motivated TN readers! WOO! :D
This one’s got a fair ways to go and only a fews days left to get there – how can you resist 150 kids getting to do science fair projects? Baking soda volcanoes all around!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=305625&challengeid=23248
This one will help a bunch of kids learn French by reading Le Petit Prince; my mom was pretty stoked that I donated to that one for her birthday.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=291195&challengeid=23248
I’d love to see this project get funded:
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=294774&challengeid=23248
Learning about the solar system, renewable energy, and a tie into mechanical engineering? Awesome!
This teacher’s whole project was only $214–and it has $134 to go. A few of us can knock that out, no problem, right?
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=309975&challengeid=23248
I’m certain reading is important to every last person, well, *reading* this.
Ok, was feeling a little flush, in spite of not receiving that DC giving card yet, and threw some cash in the directions of The American Dream (http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=302720&challengeid=23248), kids who need desks (http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=303256&challengeid=23248), and kids with military parents (http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=293083&challengeid=23248). Now if only that giving card would arrive, I could throw a few more dollars in the pot!
Let’s get ‘er done, Nation.
Strong showing today, folks. Keep up the good work!
Middle o’ the night…$116,352. Almost there!
Oh, GOOD MORNING, $117,871. Would you like some pancakes?
A few of the projects we all suggested yesterday are funded! Several more are getting closer! Another2 grand and change, and Asirda will SWOOP down and knock out the rest!
I’m thinking we can do that before the football pre-game shows get started.
Go Nation!
Wow. I woke up to $117,871. For those of you not inclined to do the math, that’s $2,129 to the marvelous and amazing Asirda’s 5K match. And with $125K in the pot for the HP bonus, the sky’s the limit. For those of you cheering on an NFL team today (or who cheered for a college team yesterday), here’s a football for kids project: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=301781&challengeid=23248
Holy crap! I go to bed and look what the Tomato Nation has done in the meantime! Awesome!
Wow almost 118.000! This is totally awesome. We can totally do this!
We’re just the teensiest bit short of $118K. I’m betting with (and on) the Army of Awesome to blow past $120,000 — at which time I get to make another $5K go to some teachers AND the kids.