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Red Ops Day 2: Brownsville, TX
May 22, 2012 – 12:06 PM | 13 Comments
Red Ops Day 2: Brownsville, TX

4 PM
Done! That’s awesome. Thank you so much, everybody. We polished off the whole high-need list for Brownsville/Harlingen. 
The Red Ops page will probably flip back to unfinished Albuquerque projects for the rest of the day. …

Red Ops Day 1: Albuquerque, NM
May 21, 2012 – 6:02 PM | 25 Comments
Red Ops Day 1: Albuquerque, NM

11:45 PM
Just a short while left in Albuquerque, friends! And as of this writing, just $44 to go on that iPad project. Let’s finish that off before the page flips over to Brownsville, TX in …

Red Ops: Target Selection Complete
May 12, 2012 – 5:05 PM | 12 Comments
Red Ops: Target Selection Complete

This is Red Leader speaking. We have confirmed our fund-raising targets for the Red Ops contest. The cities/regions appear below, in alphabetical order:

Albuquerque, NM
Brownsville, TX
Buffalo, NY
Camden, NJ
Columbia, SC
The Dakotas
Detroit, MI
Joplin, MO
Northridge/Dayton, OH
West Virginia’s northern panhandle

This …

Red Ops: Choose our 10th community!
May 8, 2012 – 4:06 PM | One Comment
Red Ops: Choose our 10th community!

It’s time to choose the tenth and final community we drop a bazillion dimes on during the contest. The poll is below, and includes a few entries from the original poll, plus some write-in candidates. …

Red Ops: The Tomato Nation / Donors Choose Spring 2012 Contest
May 7, 2012 – 7:58 AM | 14 Comments
Red Ops: The Tomato Nation / Donors Choose Spring 2012 Contest

10 cities. 2 weeks. 1 mighty Nation. Wheels up May 21.