{"id":3106,"date":"2008-11-02T09:32:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T09:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/02\/donorschoose-wrapup-1\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T09:32:36","slug":"donorschoose-wrapup-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/02\/donorschoose-wrapup-1\/","title":{"rendered":"DonorsChoose Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now November, so the annual DonorsChoose fundraiser is officially over. According to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/leadershipboard.html?category=17&#038;zone=0\">leader board<\/a>, at the time of this writing, ScienceBlogs has raised just under $30,000, from 302 donors, funding projects that will help 9,810 students. Those numbers may increase in the next day or two, as I think a lot of people have yet to allocate their share of Seed&#8217;s contribution.<\/p>\n<p>(The overall total is down a good bit from last year&#8217;s $69,000, but given the cratering economy and the election sucking all the air out of the room, that&#8217;s probably to be expected.)<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone who gave. Even if it does mean that I&#8217;ll have to humiliate myself on video&#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=19006&#038;category=17&#038;zone=0\">Uncertain Principles challenge<\/a> clocked in at $6,285, in first place among participating ScienceBlogs. We even gave the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=19119&#038;category=21&#038;zone=0\">theorists<\/a> a good run, despite their much larger readership.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get your monkey-dancing video in a couple of days. Movie Maker now deigns to recognize all the clips I need, so I can do the editing I want to do. I&#8217;ve got day-job stuff to do today, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now November, so the annual DonorsChoose fundraiser is officially over. According to the official leader board, at the time of this writing, ScienceBlogs has raised just under $30,000, from 302 donors, funding projects that will help 9,810 students. Those numbers may increase in the next day or two, as I think a lot of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/02\/donorschoose-wrapup-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DonorsChoose Wrap-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}