Contest: Well, That Happened
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on October 27, 2009 – 7:08 PM124 Comments
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From Candice, our HP-ologist:
Actually, that is no mistake! :) We ran the percentages of Giving Page totals against the support that HP is providing to Social Media Challenge donors and Tomato Nation’s share was close to $130,000! You guys rocked it as usual! The total jumped a little because HP actually ended up having around $225,000 to allocate. So, Yay!!
In other words, that $264,705 is not an error.
997 donors. 41,379 students reached.
Tomato Nation readership lifetime total: over half a million dollars.
Pass the bourbon.
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Well, Sarah said Candice’s message said that HP kicked in closer to 225,000 than 200,000. And they were divvying it on the basis of 250,000. That means that everyone who gets a gift card from them is looking at about 90 cents on the dollar. That’s assuming that they send the cards only to those people who had already donated by midnight Sunday.
If, however, they divide it amongst everyone who has donated at the end of the month, it will be somewhat lower, but still probably between 50 and 80 cents on the dollar.
By the way, is there someone at HP (and an address) that we can write thank you notes to, so they’ll keep doing this?
You know one of the things I love best about this whole thing? My unemployed behind has been able to put far less in the pot this year than usual. . .but because we’re all in it together, encouraging each other and the teachers and the kids, we are able to leap tall buildings of AWESOME.
Thanks guys! Now please excuse me while I go get this dust out of my eye. . .
Holy crap! holy crap. I cannot believe that we did this. I am so happy and proud to have been a part of this, and MAN, I cannot WAIT for my HP funding giving card to go on another spending spree.
HELL YEAH! I leave for a 2 day business trip and I come back to THIS. I can’t wait to tell M. Edium tomorrow. GO TEAM RED!
Dratted allergies! *sniff sniff sniffle* They get so bad this time of year.
Also, I will now be dressing my daughter up as a tomato for Halloween. (Or attempting to, she’s… stubborn for a 17 month old.)
… the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, then you take the house.
@Shanchan: I don’t have one, but I will inquire.
@Trash: I used to work at that mall.
@J: Guys guys guys guys guys…guys! All…red.
YOU GUYS. Seriously, you guys. All sorts of shit has gone wrong at work over the past two days, including car vs truck, busted sets, designers with the flu, and who the hell knows what else, but checking in on this has sort of prevented me from totally flipping my shit.
Thank you all for being insanely awesome.
It was our pleasure. We had never been to Belize.
Holy shitballs, indeed. And can I second this:
“I am damn proud to be part of The Awesome of 2009, and I want a t-shirt to that effect. Proceeds can go to DC, or to sending Sars, Amanda, and other personnel to a spa or something. Either way is good.”
I picture in my head a white & red ringer t-shirt with something like this on the front: http://www.avantgirl.com/origawesome.jpg
and something like this on the back: http://www.avantgirl.com/BetRed.jpg
This needs the final stats and a picture of one of the REAL cranes, and please forget the half-assed 3am mockups, but you get the idea.
Wow. What a team! $275,000 isn’t that far off, anyone ready to reach it!?
I am :)
Here is a team that needs some warm ups! So from one team to another, maybe we can throw a little that way while we are knocking off the expiring projects. http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=298884&challengeid=23248
Looks like we still have some work to do to finish out the early November projects. Tomato Nation… leaving no project behind :) I. love. October.
The shirts will get done, but not until next week; I simply won’t have time to address it until then. Definitely keep generating ideas on it in the meantime, though.
@Sars, Deanna, and J: I think you’d dig Provo. You could do well there.
@Asirda: Getting me a little choked up with the Archimedes.
@Maria: You’re LIKE a little GIRL.
@Sars: I’m gonna get out of the car and drop you like third period French.
Is that your hound in the rear there?
Denim, like a jean.
He’ll kill you. And THEN he’ll go to work on you.
You can’t have six cards! You can’t have six cards in a five-card game!
Very, very dusty in my office today, too. Must be a dust epidemic all throughout the Tomato Nation.
Love you guys. Every year, I look forward to this. I don’t know why I’m surprised when the miracle happens each year, but I’m always like a kid at Christmas.
I love being part of The Awesome each year. Thank you, Sars.
He breaks late. Everyone knows this.
So I should put the towels back?
Not to ask you to do MATH after all the BOURBON (hee) but can I ask how many students we’ve reached, cumulatively? That’s the number that gives me the shivers.
Thanks!!!!
The total number of students reached is visible on the widget.
Did you come here to give me a physical?
I was traveling all day for work yesterday – at the end of the day, decided to check TN via my iPhone – and nearly drove off the road!
210K oughta do it, don’t you think?
You think we need 90K more?
You think we need 90K more.
All right, we’ll get 90K more.
@JeniMull: You just made me spit water all over my desk! Brava!
That’s wonderful!
Get in the goddamn house.
Margaret, you meant the total number of students we’ve reached in ALL the years we’ve been doing this, right?
I scrolled through the old contest posts, which are only tagged back to 2007. According to those posts:
2009: 43298 students (as of 1:08 p.m. EST today)
2008: 19577 students
2007: “Almost 16K” students
So, if we round up to 16K for 2007, that brings us to 78875 students reached in 3 years. (And I know we did this for a few years prior to 2007, too, so the complete cumulative number is actually higher than that.) That’s…incredible.
In other news: Hallway of Health is funded!
I don’t have time to stand around talking to you…circus animals!
We need to get Rusty a girl.
There’s a women’s prison just up the road.
“that brings us to 78875 students reached in 3 years”
That’s some “Awwwwwwwwwww” right there!!! Thanks, LaSalleUGirl!
*shivers*
You want broke, blind, or bedlam?
Hey, Radio Shack: relax.
Do you see me just grabbing the gun out of your holster and waving it around?
I hope you were the groom.
Youuuuu TOSSERS. You had ONE job to do!
There’s a ninety-five pound Chinese man with a hundred sixty million dollars behind this door.
Thirteen million and you drive this piece of shit cross-country to get me?
Oh, that’s a great idea, Albert — let’s hop out of the van and we can ALL get nicked.
Did someone call for a doctor?
Guess what is on my Netflex queue now?
Cracker!
“Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I’ll never forget it.”
I am so proud to be a part of the awesome.
Ten says he shorts it.
Might as well call it whitejack!
…Twenty.
Are you freakin’ kidding me?!?! This is just… How did we… I can’t even… Man, origawesome is right!
@ibislynn: If I don’t end the year with one of those shirts in my closet, I will be a sad little tomato.
@the rest of you: You gotta walk before you crawl.