{"id":4124,"date":"2009-10-01T08:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/01\/donors-choose-2009-help-kids-w\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T08:42:03","slug":"donors-choose-2009-help-kids-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/01\/donors-choose-2009-help-kids-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors Choose 2009: Help Kids, Win Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen on some other ScienceBlogs blogs, it&#8217;s time again for the annual DonorsChoose fundraiser:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/common\/challenge_widget_js.html?id=24241&#038;widgetType=socialmedia\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t been here in past years, DonorsChoose is a charity dedicated to education. They take specific proposals from school teachers looking for items to help their classes&#8211; anything from pens and paper to classroom furniture, to smart boards and computer projectors&#8211; and allow donors to choose specific classroom projects that appeal to them. We&#8217;ve run a fundraiser for them every year since ScienceBlogs was started.<\/p>\n<p>This year, they&#8217;ve expanded beyond blogs, to a more general &#8220;Social Media Challenge.&#8221; They&#8217;ve also abandoned the specific financial goals for individual blogs, meaning that any threshold for <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/donors_choose_2009_what_would.php\">a big incentive<\/a> will be an arbitrary choice later. I still haven&#8217;t heard a good big incentive suggestion, so if you&#8217;ve got a brilliant idea, leave it in the comments over there.<\/p>\n<p>I can, however, offer some smaller incentives that will hopefully inspire a few people to donate: free books. I have one spare galley proof of <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Physics to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> left, and the finished books are scheduled to start rolling off the presses in mid-to-late November. So, two incentives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will give one advance copy of the book (choice of galley proof or finished copy) to the <strong>largest individual donation<\/strong> to my challenge during October.<\/li>\n<li>I will give at least one advance copy of the book to a <strong>donor chosen at random<\/strong> from those who contribute to the challenge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The weasel wording is because if I get lots of qualifying donations I may give out more than one, so the odds of winning aren&#8217;t too bad).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, as in past years, a donation of $20 gets you the right to <strong>ask a question of your choosing<\/strong> and have me answer it on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>So, if any of these sound attractive to you, make a donation to the challenge, and forward a copy of the confirmation email to orzelc@steelypips.org to claim your prize.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obligatory disclaimers: Residents of Chateau Steelypips and their immediate families are not eligible for the free books&#8211; you&#8217;ll get yours later. People who wrote cover blurbs\/ beta reader reports, ditto.<\/p>\n<p>Incentive offers may be combined, so a $100 donation would get you five questions answered and also qualify for the drawing and potentially the biggest donor prize.<\/p>\n<p>I reserve the right to refuse to answer questions that I deem inappropriate for whatever reason. If I refuse to answer something, I will tell you that, and give you the chance to ask another question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen on some other ScienceBlogs blogs, it&#8217;s time again for the annual DonorsChoose fundraiser: If you haven&#8217;t been here in past years, DonorsChoose is a charity dedicated to education. They take specific proposals from school teachers looking for items to help their classes&#8211; anything from pens and paper to classroom furniture,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/01\/donors-choose-2009-help-kids-w\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donors Choose 2009: Help Kids, Win Books<\/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":[5,44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","category-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","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=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}