I got a thank-you email yesterday from the head of DonorsChoose, which I will quote here. Because, well, you’re the ones who coughed up the cash, not me:
Thanks in great part to the attention you generated, we made Internet history! During the month of October, readers of more than a hundred blogs gave $420,000 to classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org, benefiting 75,000 students. To put that in perspective, it took four months for the hugely successful Facebook causes application–with millions of users–to generate that sum of donations across all causes.
We would not have helped so many students if not for the momentum you gave our Blogger Challenge by being a top performer. On behalf of all the science students whom you helped, thank you so much!!
And congratulations on winning a Federated Media award:
http://blog.federatedmedia.net/archives/2007/11/blogger-challen.php
I’m not quite sure what the Federated Media award entails (I think it’s probably an additional donation to one of the proposals in the challenge), but I was cited (along with Janet) for creative fundraising tactics for selling blog topics. Which, of course, I’m way behind on…
Anyway, thanks again.