The Tomato Nation Fall Classic: Opening Day
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on October 1, 2010 – 12:00 AM18 Comments
10K for Donors Choose; 10K for scholarships and Little-League uniforms. Plllllllay ball!
Donors Choose/Fall Classic giving page is RIGHT HERE. (Don’t forget: make sure you’re on the Fall Classic page. The ID is 58788, so spot that number in your browser before you start entering your info.)
PayPal address for donations to the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Pitch In For Baseball is TNFALLCLASSIC AT GMAIL DOT COM.
Today’s mini-prize: two (2) tickets to a minor-league baseball game, your choice of team. Forward your receipts to bunting at tomatonation dot com to enter.
20K in 31 days; the faster we finish, the more money we raise for bees, and the less guilty I will feel about telling people to eat said bees.
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We’re on the board! Half a percent done already. Heh.
I am up late feeding a newborn, so I was able to donate right away (I got to use my b-day GC, too). Hmmm…can we do all $10k before my birthday (on the 2nd)? I am once again going to bet on the TN…
Whee! 7% already and it’s not even 10pm on the West Coast!
Wheeeee, had to get my donation in before the rest of the East coast wakes up and closes out the challenge. Yay, books!
I’m lucky enough to have an October birthday, too. I used my gift card for the Great Gatsby / Jazz Age Donors Choose project. That sounds like an awesome class. I wish I could sit in!
$1,507!
Well, shoot! I left the giving card I just got at home, but if I know TN, the Fall Classic will be long over before my work day ends. I guess I’ll just have to give twice!
I have been saving my monthly donation credits since May just for this, and I’m stupidly excited to finally get to spend them!
$2,307!
…My mistake: $2,497. (eee!)
They sent me a birthday code — well, my birthday’s not til the 6th, but clearly we’ll be done long before then.
Also, why is “eat a bee” not a tag?
Woo hoo! Ray Bradbury gets to inspire some kids with my DC gift card!
Sarah,
Thank you for organizing this project. It breaks my heart to know that there maybe students out there who will never learn to know the joy of a good book because school systems can’t find the money to have a decent library or provide teachers with the funding for classroom books.
It is a joy every year to participate in helping teachers through Donors Choose!
It’s the most wonderful tiiiiime of the year…happy DCtober, everybody!
I’ve been anxiously watching the clock all day at work. Now I finally get to rush home and snag my DC birthday gift card! Watch out my fellow commuters, something wicked this way comes, and I will not stop until I get home and plug in some happy numbers for a few new Bradbury fans.
October is the best. Too bad the Nation will likely clear this thing over the weekend, and I won’t have any Choose-y time sucks waiting for me at work on Monday.
I was just able to donate for the first time. That was pretty exciting, y’all.
@Suzanne M – Awesome sauce!
Good grief, it’s the 5th already! Where have I been? The good news is that I got an email encouraging me to donate in honor of DC’s 10th anniversary, so the money has been flowing out of my account all afternoon.