{"id":912,"date":"2006-12-12T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T08:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/12\/happy-children-thank-you\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T08:35:44","slug":"happy-children-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/12\/happy-children-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Children Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may or may not recall, some time back we did a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/blogs\/donorschoose_fundraiser\/\">fundraising challenge<\/a> to raise money for the educational charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/\">Donors Choose<\/a>. Uncertain Principles readers donated a little over $1,200, and ScienceBlogs in general raised about $34,000.<\/p>\n<p>When I kicked in my money, I forgot to un-check the option to have thank-you notes sent from the classes that were funded by the contribution, mostly because I didn&#8217;t understand what it was. A week or so ago, a big envelope arrived from DonorsChoose, containing a bunch of hand-written notes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors.php?action=view_proposal&#038;id=42649&#038;cid=146\">one of the classes who got funding<\/a> through the Challenge, and pictures of children enjoying their new math books.<\/p>\n<p>Since my personal contribution was only a fraction of the money raised, most of the thanks go to the readers who contributed. So, well, thanks:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bf036b5cd22c2b97af4c88ec702c8aa8-sm_donorsthanks.jpg\" alt=\"i-bf036b5cd22c2b97af4c88ec702c8aa8-sm_donorsthanks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re the sort of person who likes to make charitable contributions around the end of the year, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\">original donation link<\/a> again. They&#8217;re a good organization, and it might be worth throwing them a few bucks.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks again to all those who have contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may or may not recall, some time back we did a fundraising challenge to raise money for the educational charity Donors Choose. Uncertain Principles readers donated a little over $1,200, and ScienceBlogs in general raised about $34,000. When I kicked in my money, I forgot to un-check the option to have thank-you notes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/12\/happy-children-thank-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Children Thank You<\/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-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}