Save The Day: April 22
1:30 PM update
$116,195. And don’t forget all the gift-card goodies available today — scroll down for more details!
Forget why we do this? Teacher Dana F. will remind you:
Thank you!! Seriously…thank you! Since I wrote you I have had 2 more donations thanks to Tomato Nation! I am sooo close. I seriously got teary-eyed when I thought about how your efforts by choosing to focus on DonorsChoose are helping to make so many projects reach completion. What I get most excited about is being able to tell my students about each new donation and how people all over the country care about them and their learning. So thank you, a million times over!
Aw.
And speaking of “aw,” reader Nicole made a mini-prize — literally! It’s a teeny tiny little book (28 x 29 mm) with a tomato on the cover, and if you give to any book-related project today, you could win it — or a $20 gift card from Barnes & Noble! Forward me those receipts by midnight ET tonight!
8:30 AM update
$115,652! Marvelous. Less than 10K ’til our next match! $ and the Mysterians will drop 5K on us at the halfway mark; keep calm and carry on!
Today’s first awesome batch of mini-prizes comes from Ellie H. and the We Are a Part of Tomato Nation Giving Page. Here’s Ellie with more info:
We are a group of 47 teachers from across the United States who belong to the “DonorsChoose $1 Giving Game” group on Facebook. Our giving page, “We Are a Part of Tomato Nation,” wants to let donors know that even a $1 donation will help a classroom! We are donating the following prizes: a $25 Donors Choose Gift Card (Ellie), a $15 Barnes and Noble gift card (We Are a Part of Tomato Nation), a $10 Donors Choose gift card (We Are a Part of Tomato Nation), and a $25 Amazon.com gift card (We Are a Part of Tomato Nation).
Just donate to any project on the WAaPoTN Giving Page before midnight ET, and you’re eligible to win! In honor of Earth Day, we’d like to suggest these environmentally-friendly projects.
More mini-prizes later (you won’t believe HOW mini!) (so cute, guys). New to the site/the contest? Browse the FAQ!
Tags: Earth Day you can't spell "readers" without "rad"
Yippee!! Thank you for featuring our page today! We are a GREAT group of teachers (if I do say so myself) that go above and beyond for our students! Please check out our projects through the link above!
Thank you, Tomato Nation! Please check out these awesome projects from fabulous teachers for their stupendous students! And, there are prizes! Woo Hoo! See the link above!
Thank you Sarah for featuring our We Are a Part of Tomato Nation Giving Page today! We hope everyone will visit our page and find a project which catches your attention! You’ll find a variety of proposals from Literacy, Science and Math to Technology, Art, and Music! Please help support our students and the Tomato Nation Superpage!
EARTH DAY SALE: The Tomato Nation has already helped to fund over 60% for Flip Video Camera for Environmental Research, http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=466760&challengeid=161025. I’m hoping the Nation can help finish this project off by MATCHING every donation to this project today. Only $240 to go and 19 days left. Every dollar helps! Thank you so much!
I headed over to help on Ellie’s page for Earth Day!
More Earth Day ideas here http://tomatohelper.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/save-the-day-april-22-earth-day-edition/
Thanks, Sars, for featuring our giving page!
These projects on the We Are a Part of Tomato Nation giving page have less than $100 to go!
Sensory Overload ($13)
Make Sitting Criss-cross Applesauce Comfortable! ($93)
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=560944&challengeid=159390
Extraordinary Books, For Extraordinary Readers ($56)
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=504886&challengeid=159390
Interacting with Interactive Notebooks ($92)
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=543248&challengeid=159390
Help Us Get Hands-on in High School English ($35)
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=533900&challengeid=159390
Fire! Fire! GP – We are trying VERY HARD to save as many project as possible prior to the end of the “SAVE THE DAY” campaign. THANK YOU to our new donors yesterday!! TODAY – 21 projects available from $17-$61 to fund.
Don’t forget, every donation to our We Are a Part of Tomato Nation page qualifies you to win 1 of 4 gift cards! Please donate today!
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?id=159390&category=241&max=25
Books for kids in rural NC in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains still need help to get funded. I am not the teacher nor live in this community. I just know how much it could use help. Please help if you can.
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=550704&challengeid=155170
We are having a “Tomato Throwing Good Friday” on the We are a Part of a Tomato Nation Giving Page! Thank you so much Sarah for highlighting this giving page, that is run by dedicated teachers from across the country! I am so blessed to be a part of the page and this great campaign!
FIRE! FIRE! Help or we will EXPIRE! GP EVENING PROJECT BLITZ – We have 26 projects from $10-$61 that include EXPIRING, MATCHING FUNDS,and ALMOST HOME offers. Let’s complete these before we lose the matching sponsor money. BE A HERO TO A CHILD TONIGHT!
Could you explain the matching process when we get to 125,000 so I know how to get in the running? Thanks. Paul
Sarah….Thanks again for featuring our Tomato Nation Giving Page,”We Are a Part of Tomato Nation.” We are all grateful for your support!
@Paul, it’s an outside donor who’s giving the 5K. When we hit 125K, s/he is going to pick projects s/he likes from the leaderboard and donate 5K to those projects.
@Ellie, thanks for the promotion — great work!