{"id":5884,"date":"2011-10-20T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T09:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/10\/20\/donors-choose-fundraiser-doubl\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T09:13:58","slug":"donors-choose-fundraiser-doubl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/10\/20\/donors-choose-fundraiser-doubl\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors Choose Fundraiser: Double Your Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been too busy to really work on the DonorsChoose fundraiser this year, but it&#8217;s worth taking a little time to mention this opportunity: Starting today and running through Saturday midnight, the DonorsChoose board will match donations to the Science Bloggers for Students fundraiser. thus, a $5 donation becomes $10, $10 becomes $20, and, well, you know how to multiply by two.<\/p>\n<p>So, since you&#8217;re quick with arithmetic, why not throw a couple of bucks to DonorsChoose, to help the <em>next<\/em> generation learn to do addition and multiplication, and eventually multivariable calculus? Such as, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=593062&#038;challengeid=199252\">this elementary math teacher in New York,<\/a> looking for hands-on math demos? Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/proposal.html?id=596842&#038;challengeid=199252\">this one in Sacramento<\/a> looking for white boards and markers? Or any of the other projects you can get to via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?page=1&#038;id=199252&#038;active=true&#038;max=50\">my Challenge page<\/a>, for that matter? the money will go to help kids in need, and for a limited time, it will do even more good than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for donating. And here, as a reward for listening to me beg for money, is a picture ofSteelyKid making a funny face:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-24683b11b502752d42400553560bd74e-sm_tongue.jpg\" alt=\"i-24683b11b502752d42400553560bd74e-sm_tongue.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How can you resist that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been too busy to really work on the DonorsChoose fundraiser this year, but it&#8217;s worth taking a little time to mention this opportunity: Starting today and running through Saturday midnight, the DonorsChoose board will match donations to the Science Bloggers for Students fundraiser. thus, a $5 donation becomes $10, $10 becomes $20, and, well,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/10\/20\/donors-choose-fundraiser-doubl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donors Choose Fundraiser: Double Your Impact<\/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":[5,44,13,2,50,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","category-education","category-personal","category-pictures","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","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=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}