Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser

As you have no doubt noticed, the annual DonorsChoose fundraiser is under way, raising money to help school teachers and children. You can < ahref="http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?id=19006">donate directly through my challenge, but you can also help them out by voting for them in the AMEX Members Project. Voting runs through midnight Monday, and is free, though you… Continue reading Help Kids, Win Prizes

As the DonorsChoose fundraiser rolls along, I’m making an effort to highlight a few worthwhile proposals from my challenge entry, in case the lack of specificity is keeping people from donating. This time out, that’s the “Sizzling Science” proposal, from Broward County, FL. This description echoes sentiments that are frequently expressed here and elsewhere in… Continue reading DonorsChoose: Sizzling Science

The Empress of Eastern New York is dissatisfied: Why? Because at this point, my DonorsChoose Challenge entry has only raised $475 from 7 donors. A bunch of theorists are cleaning our clocks. This makes SteelyKid grumpy. And we don’t want a grumpy baby. To put things into perspective, this blog gets about 2,000 hits per… Continue reading The Empress Is Not Pleased

Over the course of the next month, I’ll be highlighting some of the proposals in my DonorsChoose challenge, to let you know the benefits you can provide. Some of the proposals are heartbreakingly basic, asking for things like copy paper, but this is a science blog, so let’s look at some science proposals. For example,… Continue reading DonorsChoose: “I Do Therefore I Learn”

As you may or may not recall, last year’s DonorsChoose fundraiser featured a few… unusual offers. At one point late in the proceedings, I offered to read and review a New Atheist screed for $1000 in new donations. And, since I had previously said that I would rather stab myself with a fork than read… Continue reading DonorsChoose: Big Incentives Needed

As we have the past few years, the folks here at ScienceBlogs will be running a fundraiser for the educational charity DonorsChoose. If you haven’t been around for the past versions, the way it works is you go to their site via my challenge page, and review proposals submitted by teachers asking for funds to… Continue reading Fixing Education: DonorsChoose Fundraiser 2008

Here’s the deal: Big Think is running a charitable donation program for everybody’s favorite educational charity, DonorsChoose, and they’ve gotten Pfizer to agree to donate $1 for each of the first 10,000 visitors to vote for a video on Big Think’s site. Go to http://www.bigthink.com/thinksciencenow/, pick a video, and click on “Vote for This Video… Continue reading Free and Easy Charity

Thank-you cards and notes have been trickling in from the DonorsChoose fundraiser last fall, most of which I haven’t bothered to post. The latest batch had two pictures that were too good not to pass along, though: And:

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… Continue reading DonorsChoose Accolades