Contest: This ain’t over, Detroit
Tomato Nation readers: This Ron Gardenhire high five is for you. You killed it yesterday: $36,144 right now. Not only that, but if you maintain a 6K-a-day pace, we’ve got a shot at both goals — you’ve just got to get us to the matching funds. Our first match is for one thousand American dollars, and it’s coming at 45K. Less than 9K away, as I write this. Go get it.
Detroit: Well, look…the shit is bad, I can’t lie. But don’t give up yet — the Lions won that one game, and we can rustle you up a few copies of Othello and a rocket kit.
Don’t you give up either, Mr. S in Alabama. We can’t promise you air hockey, but we’ll do our best.
Today’s mini-prize dealio: Bail out Mr. S’s “Improving Graduation Rates By Giving ALL Students A Niche-#5” and win a $50 Amazon gift card, donated by Laura M., whose belief in this project is awesome. And the guy’s name is Mr. S, for love of beer and skittles. C’mahhhhhhhhhn.
UPDATE, 10/7, 10:50 AM: This is done, so let’s buy Ms. M some math games. Donations to “Genoa’s Math Club” can win a copy of The Big Lebowski on DVD, compliments of reader Jo C.
Or! Donate to any/all of the Detroit/MI projects below, and win a copy of the Simon’s Cat book, OR the new edition of the Garner, OR The Meaning of Tingo, OR Paul Dickson’s Drunk: The Definitive Drinker’s Dictionary. Just forward those receipts to me by 11:59 PM ET on Wednesday.
“Houston, We are Go for Launch”
“Program Your Robot To Go Through A Maze Autonomously”
“Walking Towards A Healthier Life”
“Making Shakespeare Come Alive”
Tags: Bryan Garner contests Paul Dickson Simon Tofield we'll sink YOUR Battleship
Donated to Mr. S and his project again a few hours ago, so I’ll send you that receipt. (Man, this dude is going to PLOTZ when we pull this one off. Hee!)
Thanks for supporting Detroit. (Those poor Tigers….)
Thanks for looking out for my town, Sars! Now that TicketMaster owes me some money for playoff tickets that were never meant to be, I may have a lot more to spread around.
There’s a Simon’s Cat book?!?!
I’m scrolling through the dozens of receipts in my inbox for Mr. S’s project, and suddenly it’s so dusty in this living room, I can hardly see.
…YOU GUYS.
Y’all check it out – we swarmed Mr. S’s project like a bunch of piranhas! WOOT!
Sars, will you wait until the end of the day to do the drawing from the email receipts for the mini-prize? I can’t access my personal email from work to forward mine, meh.
Hey guys –
There are a few donations that hit Mr. S’s project that CLEARLY came from us, but we weren’t given credit. Sarah said all we have to do is send DC a copy of the recpt and they will credit our total. Wouldn’t it be cool for Mr. S. to see that the entire project was funded by The Nation???
Oh, come on, Sars. Like any reader of your blog would let down a dude called Mr. S?
GAH! Someone needs to finish off Mr. S’s pool table or my kids are going to be late for school! Bet RED!
Yes, Funded! I’m going to need a new F5 button before this month is over.
@EJI: I was totally going to make the piranhas comparison, but I didn’t want you guys to feel insulted. Hee. And yes, I wait until the end of the day; you have until 11:59 PM ET to forward your receipt(s).
@Trash: Correct. Please forward those receipts to zach at donorschoose dot org and explain what happened (you may have been credited without knowing it).
@Heather: I tied the kid to a tree once, so you just never know. Snick.
WAY TO GO NATION! SO great to see the pool table going to Alabama. And it’s dusty here….
135 projects funded!!! AWESOME!
I’m blocked from the searchable spreadsheet from work, so I’m just making my daily donation from home, but this is so much frun to follow during the work day.
Mini-prizing augmented for today to knock off another project close to expiry. Dominoes!
Don’t forget: at 45K, you get a 1K boost. Nothin’ to it.
Oh, my allergies! They act up at the weirdest times, like when reading thank-you notes from teachers.
High school girls building robots! That’s awesome. And it only needs about $200!
I feel especially personally invested in the pool/air hockey table project now, and you guys knocked it out of the park. Way to go! My first “snif” of the contest… big girls DO cry.
Tossed some more toward Genoa’s Math Club – $700+ left to go and it expires in 5 days!
There’s another big one expiring in 8 days, this one for ping-pong tables: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=281006&challengeid=23248
Just showed my mom the thank you note from Mr. S and from Ms. A’s class who wants to teach her kids how to play ultimate frisbee. We both agreed it’s VERY dusty in here.
Threw a bit at the Shakespeare one- let’s get them those books!
The robot is funded, to my non-surprise. We’ve got about 40 minutes left; let’s try to bury one of these others before mini-prize deadline.
This project expires in 5 days, with just under $2900 still to go. Let’s get some frisbee golf discs for recovering addicts! Come on, night shift…
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=280171&challengeid=23248
*sees number almost at 41K*
*keeps hitting refresh*
*realizes there’s a way to fix this*
*donates*
*CAN FINALLY GO TO SLEEP NOW*
:D
The comments on the “Making Shakespeare Come Alive” project are adorable- you can see that her sister and her parents both donated!